Dani Dobkin Defends Dissertation
The Department warmly congratulates Dani Dobkin, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Ephemera as a Metaphore of Ceramics and Synthesis" on March 15, 2023.
The Department warmly congratulates Dani Dobkin, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Ephemera as a Metaphore of Ceramics and Synthesis" on March 15, 2023.
The Department warmly congratulates Anya Wilkening, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), “Degrees of Separation: Intermusicality and Intertextuality in Medieval Monophonic Song,” on March 4, 2024.
Professor Magdalena Stern-Baczewska is a recipient of the 2023-2024 Faculty Visitorship at Reid Hall in Paris. The program is jointly supported by Columbia Global Centers Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
The Department warmly congratulates Demetrius Shahmehri, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), “Romanticism's Children: Nostalgia and Fantasy in Music from Schumann to Final Fantasy,” on February 27, 2024.
Dr. Ryan Dohoney (Historical Musicology, 2009) was featured on BBC Three's Sunday Feature to discuss Morton Feldman. The program talks about Feldman's connection with abstract expressionism and his blending of art and music.
Dr. Julia Hamilton (GSAS '21) has been awarded a 12-month NEH Fellowship.
The Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University has announced the names of fourteen composers selected to receive 2023 Fromm commissions, including a Columbia Professor and two alumni of the Department of Music.
Undergraduate Sofia Jen Ouyang was selected for the 2025 DeGaetano Composition Institute.
Described as a conductor of “great intensity, without distancing, maneuvering, without indifference” (Neue Muzikzeitung - Leipzig) Zimbabwean-born conductor Vimbayi Kaziboni is the recipient of the 2024 Alice M. Ditson Fund Conductor’s Award. He has received $5,000 and a citation from Columbia’s President Minouche Shafik.
Professor Mariusz Kozak won the 2023 Outstanding Publication Award, presented by the Society for Music Theory Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group.
Professor George Lewis was profiled in The New Yorker by writer Alex Ross. The profile was published in the print edition of the January 15, 2024 issue.
Russell O'Rourke (Lecturer in Music, GSAS '20) has published his article "Armida on the Beach: A Cinquecento Rhetorical Model of the Emotions and Its Musical Reception" in the "Journal of the American Musicological Society," 76 no. 3 (Fall 2023).
Professor Susan Boynton was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.
The Department warmly congratulates Jonathan Ligrani, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), “Manuscript Culture and Patrician Identity in the Florentine Madrigal,” on December 11, 2023.
The Department warmly congratulates Kyle DeCoste, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Ethnomusicology), “Imagining Innocence: Black Popular Music and the Poetics of Childhood,” on December 11, 2023.
Alumnus Dr. Scott Gleason publishes article "Hearing Henry Grimes’s Jazz Spectralism" in Perspectives of New Music: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/338/article/902895.
Dr. Audrey Amsellem (GSAS '22, Ethnomusicology) published her article "Machine Aurality: Uncanny Resonances and the Sonic Anxieties of Surveillance Capitalism" in "Sound Studies."
DMA candidate Cem Güven is one of five composers whose works have been nominated for the Gaudeamus Award 2024, the annual incentive prize for composers under 35.