Professor Ellie Hisama has been named the 2017 speaker in the Robert Samels Visiting Scholar Program, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University.
William Mason has been appointed Visiting Instructor of Music Theory at Oberlin Conservatory for the '17-'18 academic year.
Joshua Navon has been awarded a 10-month Research Grant by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Core Lecturer Mahir Cetiz (DMA, Composition, 2013) has been awarded a 2017 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Shannon Garland (Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, 2014) has been awarded postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA and in Brazil.
Alec Hall (DMA, Composition, 2015) has been awarded a 2017 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Caleb Mutch has been appointed a Post-Doctoral Resident Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Indiana University.
Marceline Saibou has been appointed Assistant Professor of Music at Bowdoin College.
Matthew Goodheart has published "Alois Hába and the History of the Quartertone Piano" in Keyboard Mag.
Mariusz Kozak, has published "Experiencing Structure in Penderecki’s Threnody: Analysis, Ear-Training, and Musical Understanding" in Music Theory Spectrum.
Orit Hilewicz has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Music theory in the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.
The Department's annual newsletter with faculty, student, and alumni news and accomplishments of the past year is now available for download.
STEPHANIE CHOU, a singer, saxophonist, and composer from NY, combines classical and Chinese influences with jazz and pop harmony and rhythm. She released an album, Asymptote, which features fresh arrangements of Chinese classics including "Kangding Love Song," "The Moon Represents My Heart," a tongue-twister about Eating Grapes, and a setting of one of LiBai's most famous poems.
Susan Boynton has won a three-year grant from the Partner University Fund (FACE Foundation) for training graduate students in digital humanities and medieval musical iconography.
George Lewis has been named Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society. Walter Frisch won the Society's Roland Jackson Award, Susan Boynton won the Ruth A. Solie Award, and Julia Doe won the Alfred Einstein Award.
The Associazione Amici per la Musica has awarded First Prize to Dimou in the Luigi Nono competition.
Zosha Di Castri's orchestral piece Lineage had its Japanese première at Suntory Hall on August 30th in a performance by the Tokyo Symphony alongside works by Kaija Saariaho (the featured theme composer) and Jean Sibelius. On September 2, Di Castri's String Quartet No.1 was given its première as the Canadian Commission Round of the Banff International String Quartet Competition.
Columbia Composition DMA student Stylianos Dimou's piece "my grounding | surrounding [it]_self / h_I. v.2" (2015-2016) for one percussionist and electronics has been awarded First Prize at the Concorso Internazionale di Composizione “Amici della Musica di Cagliari” 2016. The piece will be performed in Cagliari on the 28th of September.