The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Samuel F. Yulsman, who successfully defended his DMA dissertation in Music Composition titled "Free Jazz Simulations and Political Despair in Aaron Cassidy's 'The Wreck of former boundaries' and 'a line off the convaplex, ifs of color, devout conditions' and 'Negative Horizon'" on March 15, 2021.
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's "Tachitipo," the eponymous track of her debut album, has been nominated for Classical Composition of the Year in the 2021 JUNO Awards.
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.
Dr. Maeve Sterbenz (PhD ‘17 in Music Theory) has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Music at Smith College, starting in Fall 2021.
Peter M. Susser and Cellist Eric Bartlett were selected to write a new piece for APNM’s Masked Music Commissions for composer/performer pairs.
Professor Alessandra Ciucci has received the Lenfest Junior Faculty Grant Award for her new book project "Nass el Ghiwane: Popular Music and the Sound of Protest in Morocco (1970s-1990s)."
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."
Current Musicology is thrilled to announce the publication of its 107th issue (Fall, 2020).
Jonathan Ligrani, Ph.D. student in Historical Musicology, has been awarded a Short-Term Research Fellowship by the Renaissance Society of America.
Dr. Stylianos Dimou (DMA '20 in Composition) has been appointed a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Congratulations to Professor Ellie Hisama for accepting an offer to be the Dean of the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto.
Toru Momii, Ph.D. candidate in Music Theory, has published "A Transformational Approach to Gesture in Shō Performance" in Music Theory Online.
Tyshawn Sorey
Dr. Tyshawn Sorey (DMA 2017) received a celebratory write-up in the New York Times on New Year's Day by classical music editor Zachary Woolfe.
Album covers of "Breaking News" by George Lewis, Oxana Omelchuk, and Studio Dan; "Something to Hunt" by Ash Fure; and "Drift Multiply" by Tristan Perich
Three Columbia affiliates were represented in the New York Times yesterday in the Times's roundup of the "25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020": George Lewis, Ash Fure, and Tristan Perich.
Sonja Wermager, a graduate PhD Candidate in Historical Musicology, has just published “'That Hart May Sing in Corde:' Defense of Church Music in the Psalm Paraphrases of Matthew Parker" in "The Yale Journal of Music & Religion."
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Laure M. Hiendl, who successfully defended their DMA dissertation in Music Composition titled "Queer Composition. Subversive Strategies in Western Classical Music" on November 20, 2020.
Professor Mariusz Kozak delivered a talk titled “Kinesthesis, Affectivity, and Music’s Temporal (Re-/Dis-)Orientations" at the Plenary Session of the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory.