Dr. Kate Soper (DMA '11) has won the 2023–24 Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize. These fellowships support artists and scholars in independent work and research in the arts and humanities.
Dr. Bill Dougherty (DMA, '21) has been named a 2023–24 Fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Center for Advanced Study. The Radcliffe Fellowship allows scholars, writers, journalists and other professionals from many fields of study a full year to pursue projects in an interdisciplinary setting.
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 prizes for distinction in Music Composition, awarded annually to undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate distinction in the area of Music Composition, as determined by a committee of faculty members in the Composition area.
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 prizes for distinction in Music Composition, awarded annually to undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate distinction in the area of Music Composition, as determined by a committee of faculty members in the Composition area.
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 prizes for distinction in Music Composition, awarded annually to undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate distinction in the area of Music Composition, as determined by a committee of faculty members in the Composition area.
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 prizes for distinction in Music Composition, awarded annually to undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate distinction in the area of Music Composition, as determined by a committee of faculty members in the Composition area.
The Department warmly congratulates Emily Praetorius, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Temporal Plane Shifting and Suspended Time in 'Something Like Your Lagrangian Point' and 'Nothing Never Always Sometimes Changes'" on May 3, 2023.
Dr. Christopher Trapani (DMA '17) will join the Faculties of the LSU School of Music and the LSU Center for Computation and Technology as Assistant Professor of Experimental Music & Digital Media. He will begin in January 2024.
The Department warmly congratulates Bethany Younge, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Body as Music: Mauricio Kagels' 'Repertoire' from 'Staatstheater' and Marina Rosenfeld's 'My Body'" on April 20, 2023.
The Department warmly congratulates Finola Merivale, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Community Co-Creation and Virtual Reality in Opera: Composing 'Out of the Ordinary: As an nGnách'" on April 7, 2023.
The Department warmly congratulates Saad Haddad, who successfully defended his DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "On the Transmigration of the Arab Soul: A Case Study in Contemporary Composition" on April 4, 2023.
Peter M. Susser, Director of Undergraduate Musicianship, curated an exhibit in the Music Library of materials from the class, “The Song Within Us.”
James Baker, distinguished percussionist, composer and conductor is the recipient of the 2023 Ditson Conductor’s Award for the advancement of American music, Columbia University has announced.
Bethany Younge has received a 2022 Fromm Music Foundation Commission.
Ramin Amir Arjomand (DMA '06 and adjunct instructor) has been honored with the 2022–2023 Steinhardt Teaching Excellence Award at the Steinhardt School, New York University.
Zosha Di Castri and Bethany Younge were named 2023 American Academy of Arts and Letters Music Awards winners. Di Castri is a recipient of the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship in Music, and Younge is a recipient of the Charles Ives Scholarship.
The Women’s Committee for the Wooster Symphony Orchestra commissioned a piece by DMA composer Anna-Louise Walton, titled "The Arrival," to commemorate the committee’s 50th anniversary.
Louis Goldford has received a commission from the Longleash Trio for a new work to be premiered in 2024, supported by the Research-Creation Grant from the ACTOR Project (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration) along with colleagues in ACTOR's Voice Timbre Workgroup.