Dr. Harald Kisiedu (GSAS '14, Historical Musicology) and Professor George Lewis have just announced their new bilingual (German-English) edited volume, "'Composing While Black': Afrodiasporische Neue Musik Heute / Afrodiasporic New Music Today."
Camila Agosto has received a 2023 Berlin Prize Fellowship in music composition. The Berlin Prize is awarded annually to US-based scholars, writers, composers and artists who embody the highest degree of excellence in their respective disciplines.
Dr. Kate Soper (DMA '11) has won the 2023–24 Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize. These fellowships support artists and scholars in independent work and research in the arts and humanities.
Dr. Bill Dougherty (DMA, '21) has been named a 2023–24 Fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Center for Advanced Study. The Radcliffe Fellowship allows scholars, writers, journalists and other professionals from many fields of study a full year to pursue projects in an interdisciplinary setting.
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 prizes for distinction in Music Composition, awarded annually to undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate distinction in the area of Music Composition, as determined by a committee of faculty members in the Composition area.
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 prizes for distinction in Music Composition, awarded annually to undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate distinction in the area of Music Composition, as determined by a committee of faculty members in the Composition area.
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 prizes for distinction in Music Composition, awarded annually to undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate distinction in the area of Music Composition, as determined by a committee of faculty members in the Composition area.
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 prizes for distinction in Music Composition, awarded annually to undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate distinction in the area of Music Composition, as determined by a committee of faculty members in the Composition area.
After two years working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University, first as a recipient of the Early Career Fellowship in the Music Department and then as a Core Lecturer of Contemporary Civilization, Mario Cancel Bigay will be a Clinical Assistant Professor in Global Musicology at NYU’s Liberal Studies School.
The Department warmly congratulates Emily Praetorius, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Temporal Plane Shifting and Suspended Time in 'Something Like Your Lagrangian Point' and 'Nothing Never Always Sometimes Changes'" on May 3, 2023.
The Department warmly congratulates Sonja Wermager, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), titled “Robert Schumann and 'the Artist's Highest Goal': Religion, Romanticism, and Nation in the Late Choral Works” on May 2, 2023.
Dr. Christopher Trapani (DMA '17) will join the Faculties of the LSU School of Music and the LSU Center for Computation and Technology as Assistant Professor of Experimental Music & Digital Media. He will begin in January 2024.
The Department warmly congratulates Bethany Younge, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Body as Music: Mauricio Kagels' 'Repertoire' from 'Staatstheater' and Marina Rosenfeld's 'My Body'" on April 20, 2023.
The Department warmly congratulates Sean Colonna, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), titled “Musical Aesthetics, Drugs, and Subjectivity in Germany, 1770s—1820s” on April 13, 2023.
Dr. Qingfan Jiang has accepted the position of Assistant Professor in Musicology at Peabody Conservatory (Johns Hopkins University).
The Department warmly congratulates Finola Merivale, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Community Co-Creation and Virtual Reality in Opera: Composing 'Out of the Ordinary: As an nGnách'" on April 7, 2023.
The Department warmly congratulates Saad Haddad, who successfully defended his DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "On the Transmigration of the Arab Soul: A Case Study in Contemporary Composition" on April 4, 2023.
Dr. John Glasenapp (GSAS '20, Historical Musicology) has contributed an article to "Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 1000 – 1500," edited by Julie Hotchin and Jirki Thibaut.