Featured Fall 2019 Courses
posted
Aug
27,
2019
The Music Department is offering a wide range of courses this semester.
Please see for more information:
Composition News
Mario Davidovsky, 1934-2019
posted
Aug
26,
2019
The faculty of the Department of Music offers its deepest condolences on the passing of the renowned composer Mario Davidovsky (Argentina, March 4, 1934-August 23, 2019).
Zosha Di Castri Opened BBC Proms with Premiere of New Piece
posted
Aug
22,
2019
Professor Zosha Di Castri opened the BBC Proms on July 19th with her latest work Long Is the Journey - Short Is the Memory. The piece marked the 50th anniversary of the lunar landings.
George Lewis Announced as a 2019 Doris Duke Artist
posted
Jul
16,
2019
George Lewis is one of the six newest Doris Duke Artists chosen by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The Award celebrates the chosen artists' ongoing contributions to contemporary dance, music, and theater.
Brad Garton: keynote speaker at the 2019 International Computer Music Conference
posted
Jun
20,
2019
Professor Brad Garton is going to be the keynote speaker at the 2019 International Computer Music Conference going on this week (his speech is tomorrow at 4:30 PM), and one of his book-readings will be a 'featured piece' on the 2019 New York Electroacoustic Music Festival that evening.
Dr. David Bird Defends Dissertation
posted
May
10,
2019
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. David Bird, who on May 8th, 2019, successfully defended his DMA dissertation in music composition, "Mixed Media and Metaphor".
Katherine Balch Featured in the San Francisco Chronicle
posted
May
8,
2019
Composition graduate student Katherine Balch was recently featured in the San Francisco Chronicle in review of her new violin concerto, "Artifacts". The world premiere was given at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek on Sunday, May 5th, 2019, by violinist Robyn Bollinger with Donato Cabrera of the California Symphony.
Saad Haddad Named 2019-2021 Young Concert Artists Composer-in-Residence
posted
Apr
12,
2019
Young Concert Artists, in New York City, has this week announced composer Saad Haddad as its 2019-2021 Composer-in-Residence!
Ashkan Behzadi Named 2019-2020 Center for Contemporary Composition Postdoctoral Researcher
posted
Apr
11,
2019
Congratulations to Ashkan Behzadi who has been appointed as the 2019-20 Postdoctoral Researcher at the rank of Instructor in the Division of the Humanities at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition (CCCC).
Dr. Yair Klartag Defends Dissertation
posted
Apr
10,
2019
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Yair Klartag, who on March 5, 2019, successfully defended his DMA dissertation in music composition, Post-Ironic Sounds: Wallacian New Sincerity in “Unavoidably Sentimental” for Large Ensemble.
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!
Department of Music students, alumni, and faculty featured in Columbia News
posted
Jan
18,
2019
Students, alumni, and faculty in the Music Department are featured in the article "Daughters of Harlem Teaches Local Young Women to Record and Produce Their Own Music" about the Fall 2018 workshop For the Daughters of Harlem: Working with Sound.
Mahir Cetiz Featured in an Interview by Alexander K. Rothe
posted
Dec
7,
2018
Columbia faculty, composer, pianist, and conductor Mahir Cetiz discusses his music in an interview conducted by faculty member Alexander K. Rothe in a recent post on new classical news website I Care If You Listen
Project For the Daughters of Harlem awarded two grants
posted
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.
2018 Composition Prizes Announced
posted
Aug
17,
2018
The Department announces the following named awards in Composition for 2018:
Fall 2018 Courses
posted
Aug
13,
2018
The Music Department is offering a wide range of courses this fall, including several featured and new electives.
Nina C. Young Joins UT Austin Faculty
posted
Aug
9,
2018
Alumna Nina C. Young (DMA, Composition 2016) has recently been announced as the Assistant Professor of Composition and Director of the Electronic Music Studios at the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin. Her contract will begin with the 2018-2019 academic year.
Alumna Rebecca Y. Kim Edits Groundbreaking Work of Earle Brown
posted
Aug
9,
2018
Rebecca Kim edits the first comprehensive survey of the groundbreaking work of Earle Brown, augmented with several newly published items from his personal archive. Earle Brown (1926–2002) was a crucial part of a group of experimental composers known as the New York School, and his music intersects in fascinating ways with that of his colleagues John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff.