James Baker, distinguished percussionist, composer and conductor is the recipient of the 2023 Ditson Conductor’s Award for the advancement of American music, Columbia University has announced.
Professor Kevin Fellezs has published an article, "The Ultra-Violence: Death Angel and Asian American Presence/Absence in Heavy Metal."
Bethany Younge has received a 2022 Fromm Music Foundation Commission.
Professor Walter Frisch has been selected as a Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
Ramin Amir Arjomand (DMA '06 and adjunct instructor) has been honored with the 2022–2023 Steinhardt Teaching Excellence Award at the Steinhardt School, New York University.
Zosha Di Castri and Bethany Younge were named 2023 American Academy of Arts and Letters Music Awards winners. Di Castri is a recipient of the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship in Music, and Younge is a recipient of the Charles Ives Scholarship.
The Women’s Committee for the Wooster Symphony Orchestra commissioned a piece by DMA composer Anna-Louise Walton, titled "The Arrival," to commemorate the committee’s 50th anniversary.
Louis Goldford has received a commission from the Longleash Trio for a new work to be premiered in 2024, supported by the Research-Creation Grant from the ACTOR Project (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration) along with colleagues in ACTOR's Voice Timbre Workgroup.
Vince Cherico at the 2023 Grammy Awards.
The Music Performance Program congratulates our faculty, students, and alumni on winning Grammy Awards in two categories: Best Latin Jazz Album and Best Orchestral Performance.
Composer Finola Merivale was profiled in The Washington Post as "a composer to watch in 2023."
Dr. Benjamin Hansberry (GSAS '17, Music Theory) has been promoted to Associate Director for Graduate Student Teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Cheng-Wei Lim published an article in 19th Century Music titled "Heroic Narratives and Chopin's Polonaise in Ab Major, Op. 53."
On January 31, Professor Julia Doe was featured in an extended interview on “In Time to the Music,” a program on BBC Radio 4.
In January 2023, Susan Boynton became Director of The University Seminars, an ongoing community of partnerships each of which is constituted by scholars from multiple academic departments and disciplines, often including experts from outside academia, and is devoted to the study of an institution, practice, or issue of theoretical and/or practical importance.
Scott Gray Douglass's article "The Influence of D. Antoinette Handy— Musician, Scholar, Administrator, Visionary—on the Expansion of Music Education in Richmond, Virginia" has been published in Jazz Education in Research and Practice, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2023).
Magdalena Stern-Baczewska gave a virtual lecture "Chopin and the Bel Canto Style" at the Xi'an Conservatory of Music, inaugurating the 2022 Piano International Academic Exchange Week.
Professor Marcos Balter and Dr. Tyshawn Sorey (DMA 2017) have received 2022 Music Commissions from Koussevitzky Foundation from the Library of Congress.
Bethany Younge, DMA student in Composition, will be joining the Dartmouth Department of Music and the Graduate Program in Digital Musics as Technical Director.