Zosha Di Castri was commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra to write a song cycle for acclaimed soprano Barbara Hannigan, entitled "In the Half-Light." With a libretto written by renowned author Tash Aw, the cycle received its world premiere in Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall on May 19 and 21, 2022, conducted by Gustavo Gimeno.
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Vicente Hansen Atria, who successfully defended his DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Contrafactual Archaeology: A Model for Inter-idiomatic Composition in 'Orlando Furioso'" on April 29, 2022.
The Columbia University Department of Music is happy to announce that Dr. Marcos Balter will be joining our department as the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition.
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Katherine Balch, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music (Composition), titled "Liminal Spaces: Sonic Ecologies within and around the music of Erin Gee" on April 15, 2022.
"In the hands of the young American composer Katherine Balch, orchestral sounds become tactile objects — clattery, brightly colored pebbles that she assembles into evocative musical mosaics."
Dr. Tyshawn Sorey (DMA '17) performed for the 50th anniversary of Houston's Rothko Chapel at the end of February.
Dr. Eric Wubbels (DMA '10) was profiled in the New York Times on March 4th. The profile discusses his compositional work and process since moving to Massachusetts at the start of the pandemic.
Professor George Lewis will receive an honorary Doctor of Music from the University of Pennsylvania.
There is a call for papers for the Columbia Music Scholarship Conference, which is being held through Zoom on April 23, 2022. The deadline for papers is March 4, 2022.
Katherine Balch (Composition) has joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music as Visiting Assistant Professor, Adjunct, of Composition.
Seth Cluett, assistant director of the Computer Music Center and lecturer in the Department, has teamed up with Hewlett-Packard to lower the barriers for students interested in electronic music.
It has been announced that Professor George Lewis has been elected to the Akademie der Künste Berlin. Founded in 1696, the ADK is one of the oldest cultural institutes in Europe.
Hannah Kendall (Composition) has won the Hindemith Prize for young composers.
The Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University has announced the names of fourteen composers selected to receive 2021 Fromm commissions. Among the fourteen winners are Columbia alumnus David Bird (DMA 2019), and three current DMA students, Jessie Cox, Louis Goldford, and Diana Rodriguez.
Jessie Cox (Composition) will release his debut solo album "When You're a Star" on November 14, 2021.
Dr. Laure M. Hiendl (DMA '20) is one of the recipients of the Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo.
Zosha Di Castri, Olivia De Prato, Allison Loggins-Hull, and Alice Teyssier announce the launch of Matricalis, a website and community hub that reflects on the impact of motherhood on individual musicians.
Peter Susser and Eric Bartlett’s Masked Music Commission from the APNM, “Cinque Bouquets pour Jacques Monod,” is now available on YouTube.