Magdalena Stern-Baczewska has received the Culture, Science and Education Initiative Grant from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.

The Department warmly congratulates Dr. John Rot, who successfully defended his DMA dissertation in Music Composition titled "Waking Up into the Moment: Temporal Awareness as a Primary Composable Parameter of Music" on April 5, 2021.

Dr. Christine Dysers is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Department of Music, Columbia University. Her research is broadly concerned with 20th- and 21st-century music, with particular attention to contemporary composition and the aesthetics of repetition.

Julia Doe, assistant professor of music, has published a new monograph, "The Comedians of the King: Opéra-Comique and the Bourbon Monarchy on the Eve of Revolution." The book is available through the University of Chicago Press.

Congratulations to Maria Fantinato Geo de Siqueira for her appointment as a Postdoctoral Associate within the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.

Professor Zosha Di Castri has published her essay, “Tachitipo—The Living Passport,” on the creative process behind her debut album, Tachitipo, in the recently-released Arcana IX: Musicians on Music, edited by John Zorn.

Peter M. Susser and Cellist Eric Bartlett were selected to write a new piece for APNM’s Masked Music Commissions for composer/performer pairs.

Toru Momii has been awarded the SMT-40 Dissertation Fellowship from the Society for Music Theory for his dissertation, "Rethinking Transpacific Boundaries: Analyzing Interculturality in Contemporary Japanese Music."