Historical musicology graduate student Sean Colonna published “Celebrating the Maurice Peress Archive” in the Spring 2019 issue of the American Music Review.
George Lewis is one of the six newest Doris Duke Artists chosen by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The Award celebrates the chosen artists' ongoing contributions to contemporary dance, music, and theater.
The Department is delighted to congratulate Aaron Johnson (PhD, Historical Musicology, '14), who will be a W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.
Congratulations to Joshua Navon on the successful defense of his PhD dissertation, "The Making of Modern Musical Expertise: German Conservatories and Music Education, 1843-1933"!
Toru Momii received the Japanese American Association-Honjo Foundation Scholarship, which will be officially presented at the Harvard Club in May 2019.
Young Concert Artists, in New York City, has this week announced composer Saad Haddad as its 2019-2021 Composer-in-Residence!
Congratulations to Ashkan Behzadi who has been appointed as the 2019-20 Postdoctoral Researcher at the rank of Instructor in the Division of the Humanities at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition (CCCC).
The Columbia University Ethnomusicology community is delighted to congratulate our recent PhD alumnus, and current Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Music, Dr. César Cólon-Montijo, who has been named to the first cohort of Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows at Princeton University.
The Department of Music congratulates Dr. Courtney Bryan who has been awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome!
Sam Pluta, Matthew Ricketts, Katharina Rosenberger, and Christopher Trapani have been awarded the 2019 Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Congratulations!
Jazz ensemble from Columbia University's Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, directed by Bruce Barth, wins first prize in the College Combo division at the Next Generation Jazz Festival competition in Monterey, CA on Saturday, April 6th, 2019.
Congratulations to Columbia Ethnomusicology PhD candidate Andrés García Molina, who has been awarded a $2,000 travel grant to visit the Díaz-Ayala Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection at Florida International University, where he will also be giving a lecture about his research.
Historical Musicology graduate student Velia Ivanova received the Margery Lowens Dissertation Research Fellowship at the annual meeting of the Society for American Music in New Orleans, LA.
On September 26th, 2018, Music Performance Program held a special recital of the winners of the Richard and Brooke Kamin Rapaport Summer Music Performance Fellowship.
For the Daughters of Harlem: Working in Sound has won an Action Grant from Humanities New York and a Public Outreach Grant from Columbia University’s Center for Science and Society to host a campus workshop in October 2018 for young women of color from New York’s public high schools.
Professor Kevin Fellezs Featured in Columbia College Today
Kevin Fellezs, Associate Professor of Music in Ethnmusicology, is featured in the Summer 2018 issue of Columbia College Today.
Our colleague George Lewis was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Harvard in this year's Commencement.
Composer and pianist Courtney Bryan (DMA Composition, 2014) works in multiple genres, both sacred and secular, including jazz and other experimental music, traditional gospel, spirituals, and hymns. Unifying her compositions - solo to orchestral works, choral music and sound installations - is a desire to “communicate the sounds of rebellion and healing.”