The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Russell O'Rourke, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music History titled "Representation, Emotion, and the Madrigal in Sixteenth-Century Italy" on August 12, 2020.
The Department of Music is pleased to announce that Ruth Opara and Suzanne Thorpe have been selected as two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows.
Professors Ellie Hisama and Zosha Di Castri have been awarded one of two 2020 Public Outreach Grants from Columbia's Center for Science and Society.
Composition graduate students Katherine Balch and William Dougherty have been selected as winners of the American Academy in Rome's 2020-21 Rome Prize.
Dr. Anne Levitsky has been appointed as a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Dixie State University in Saint George, Utah.
Qingfan Jiang was awarded an Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship for her dissertation, “Toward a Global Enlightenment: Music, Missionaries, and the Construction of a Universal History in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China and Europe.”
Jessie Cox's article on Marshall Allen, the masterful saxophonist and collaborator with Sun Ra, has been published in the new Sound American issue.
Dr. Mark Saccomano has accepted a research position on a three-year digital musicology project at the University of Paderborn in Germany.
Professor Chris Washburne has a new book out, "Latin Jazz: the Other Jazz", published by Oxford University Press (2020). The book discusses Latin Jazz, its rich cultural heritage and its erasure from the narratives of jazz history.
"Embrace Everything: The World of Gustav Mahler," a new podcast series featuring Adjunct Assistant Professor Marilyn McCoy, will premiere on July 7.
Steven Schick, distinguished percussionist, conductor and author, is the recipient of the 2020 Ditson Conductor’s Award for the advancement of American music, Columbia University has announced. Schick will receive $5,000 and a citation on behalf of Columbia’s President Lee C. Bollinger.
Dr. Fort during his dissertation defense.
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Anthony Fort, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music Theory titled "Rhythm in Some Modernist Classical Music Sounds Different Depending on How You Move" on June 19, 2020.
Scott Gleason (PhD '13) is a co-editor of this double volume of "Perspectives of New Music" dedicated to composer-theorist John Rahn. Dr. Gleason and Orit Hilewicz (PhD '17) also contributed articles.
The Music Performance Program congratulates its 2020 graduates!
Zosha Di Castri and Kristina Canellakis at the 2019 BBC Proms
BBC Radio 3 will broadcast the First Night of the Proms 2019, featuring Professor Zosha Di Castri’s "Long is the Journey, Short is the Memory," at 12:31 AM BST on May 29, 2020. The performance will be up for 30 days for folks to stream if they like.
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 prizes for distinction in Music Composition. The Douglas Moore Prize has been awarded to Joseph Jordan.
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 prizes for distinction in Music Composition. The Charles S. Miller Prize has been awarded to Stylianos Dimou (DMA '20).
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 prizes for distinction in Music Composition. The Charles S. Miller Award has been awarded to Sharon Rose Hurvitz (left) and Annie Nikunen (right).