Dr. Courtney Bryan Wins the 2019-2020 Rome Prize
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Apr
10,
2019
The Department of Music congratulates Dr. Courtney Bryan who has been awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome!
Achievements News
Four Columbia Composers Awarded the 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship
posted
Apr
10,
2019
Sam Pluta, Matthew Ricketts, Katharina Rosenberger, and Christopher Trapani have been awarded the 2019 Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Congratulations!
Columbia Jazz Ensemble Wins top Prize at Next Generation Jazz Festival
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Apr
9,
2019
Jazz ensemble from Columbia University's Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, directed by Bruce Barth, wins first prize in the College Combo division at the Next Generation Jazz Festival competition in Monterey, CA on Saturday, April 6th, 2019.
PhD Student Andrés García Molina Wins Research Grant from Florida International University
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Apr
2,
2019
Congratulations to Columbia Ethnomusicology PhD candidate Andrés García Molina, who has been awarded a $2,000 travel grant to visit the Díaz-Ayala Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection at Florida International University, where he will also be giving a lecture about his research.
Velia Ivanova Receives Margery Lowens Dissertation Research Fellowship
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Apr
1,
2019
Historical Musicology graduate student Velia Ivanova received the Margery Lowens Dissertation Research Fellowship at the annual meeting of the Society for American Music in New Orleans, LA.
Richard and Brooke Kamin Rapaport Summer Music Performance Fellowship Winners
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Oct
8,
2018
On September 26th, 2018, Music Performance Program held a special recital of the winners of the Richard and Brooke Kamin Rapaport Summer Music Performance Fellowship.
Project For the Daughters of Harlem awarded two grants
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Sep
19,
2018
For the Daughters of Harlem: Working in Sound has won an Action Grant from Humanities New York and a Public Outreach Grant from Columbia University’s Center for Science and Society to host a campus workshop in October 2018 for young women of color from New York’s public high schools.
Kevin Fellezs Featured in Columbia College Today
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Aug
15,
2018
Professor Kevin Fellezs Featured in Columbia College Today
Kevin Fellezs, Associate Professor of Music in Ethnmusicology, is featured in the Summer 2018 issue of Columbia College Today.
George Lewis awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Harvard
posted
May
29,
2018
Our colleague George Lewis was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Harvard in this year's Commencement.
Courtney Bryan has won the 2018 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts
posted
May
21,
2018
Composer and pianist Courtney Bryan (DMA Composition, 2014) works in multiple genres, both sacred and secular, including jazz and other experimental music, traditional gospel, spirituals, and hymns. Unifying her compositions - solo to orchestral works, choral music and sound installations - is a desire to “communicate the sounds of rebellion and healing.”
Alumna Dr. Lauren Flood Appointed Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Pennsylvania
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May
18,
2018
The Ethnomusicology community at Columbia is delighted to congratulate our PhD alumna, Dr. Lauren Flood (PhD, 2016), who has been appointed as a Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at the Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Trevor Reed Appointed Associate Professor of Law at Arizona State University
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May
18,
2018
The Ethnomusicology community at Columbia is delighted to congratulate Trevor Reed (Hopi), a joint JD/PhD student in Law and Ethnomusicology at Columbia, who has been appointed as an Associate Professor of Law at Arizona State University.
Whitney Slaten Appointed Assistant Professor at Bard College
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May
18,
2018
The Ethnomusicology community at Columbia is thrilled to congratulate our PhD alumnus Whitney J. Slaten, who has been appointed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Bard College (Annandale on Hudson, NY), where he will begin teaching in Fall 2018.
William Mason appointed Assistant Professor at Wheaton College
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May
17,
2018
William Mason has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Music at Wheaton College in Norton Massachusetts.
Galen DeGraf Defends Dissertation
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May
15,
2018
Congratulations to Galen DeGraf, a Ph.D candidate in Music Theory, who successfully defended his dissertation, "Navigating Musical Periodicities: Modes of Perception and Types of Temporal Knowledge," on May 14th!
Anne Levitsky Defends Dissertation
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May
8,
2018
Anne Levitsky, Ph.D. student in Historical Musicology, successfully defended her dissertation, "The Song from the Singer: Personification, Embodiment, and Anthropomorphization in Troubadour Lyric," on April 12.
Tom Fogg Defends Dissertation
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May
7,
2018
Thomas Fogg, a graduate student in Historical Musicology, successfully defended his dissertation, "Expériences sonores: Music in Postwar Paris and the Changing Sense of Sound," on May 7.
Mark Seto Appointed to Brown University
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May
6,
2018
Mark Seto (GSAS PhD '12) has been appointed Lecturer in Music and Director of the Brown Symphony Orchestra, beginning in Fall 2018.