Alec Hall wins Guggenheim Fellowship
posted
Apr
7,
2017
Alec Hall (DMA, Composition, 2015) has been awarded a 2017 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Composition News
SPRING 2017 Featured New and Elective Courses
posted
Jan
10,
2017
The Music Department is offering a wide range of elective courses this semester. For the entire listing, please see Directory of Classes http://www.columbia.edu/cu/bulletin/uwb.
2016 Department Newsletter Published
posted
Dec
17,
2016
The Department's annual newsletter with faculty, student, and alumni news and accomplishments of the past year is now available for download.
Stylianos Dimou (DMA, Composition) Awarded Luigi Nono Prize
posted
Nov
1,
2016
The Associazione Amici per la Musica has awarded First Prize to Dimou in the Luigi Nono competition.
Cliff Colnot Wins 2016 Ditson Conductor’s Award
posted
Oct
10,
2016
Columbia University has announced that Cliff Colnot, distinguished conductor, composer, arranger and educator, is the recipient of the 2016 Ditson Conductor’s Award for the advancement of American music.
Zosha Di Castri Awarded Koussevitzky Commission
posted
Oct
4,
2016
Zosha Di Castri has been awarded a Koussevitzky Commission by the Library of Congress to write a piece for the International Contemporary Ensemble with Steven Schick.
Recommended Elective Courses for FALL 2016
posted
Sep
9,
2016
The Music Department is offering a wide range of elective courses this semester.
For the entire listing, please see Directory of Classes.
Stephen Lehman's New Album Sélébéyone
posted
Sep
6,
2016
Stephen Lehman (DMA, Composition, 2012) has released a new album, Sélébéyone, in collaboration with French saxophonist Maciek Lasserre.
Courtney Bryan interviewed about Music and Black Lives Matter
posted
Sep
5,
2016
Read the interview with Courtney Bryan (DMA, Composition, 2014) about the première of "The Dream Unfinished."
Dimou Awarded First Prize in Italian Composition Competition
posted
Aug
24,
2016
Columbia Composition DMA student Stylianos Dimou's piece "my grounding | surrounding [it]_self / h_I. v.2" (2015-2016) for one percussionist and electronics has been awarded First Prize at the Concorso Internazionale di Composizione “Amici della Musica di Cagliari” 2016. The piece will be performed in Cagliari on the 28th of September.
Jeff Talman Awarded a Fellowship in Music and Sound from NYFA
posted
Jul
28,
2016
DMA alumnus Jeff Talman has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Music and Sound. Less than 4% of applicants to the award receive it - congratulations for this very prestigious fellowship, Dr. Talman! More information can be found on NYFA's website, here.
George Lewis Elected Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
posted
Jul
18,
2016
Professor George Lewis was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy on July 15, 2016: http://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-george-lewis Congratulations, Professor Lewis!
CMC Awarded Faculty Grant for Massive Open Online Course
posted
Jul
1,
2016
The Computer Music Center was awarded a faculty grant for their Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), History of Music Production Techniques, which will be taught by Terry Pender. Congratulations, CMC!
Alec Hall's Piece Performed in the Manifeste in Paris
posted
Jul
1,
2016
Alec Hall (DMA, Composition, 2016) is featured as a composer in the Manifeste 2016's Chamber Music Composition Workshop concert in Paris this evening at 7pm. More information here. Congratulations, Alec!
Carl Bettendorf's and Kate Soper's String Quartets Premiered by Mivos Quartet at Miller Theater
posted
Jun
6,
2016
The Mivos Quartet will premiere Carl C. Bettendorf's (DMA, Composition, 2009 & current adjunct professor) String Quartet No. 2, Yggdrasil (commissioned by the Ralph Kaminsky Fund for New Music) and Kate Soper's (DMA, Composition) Nadja on Tuesday, June 7 (tomorrow!) at 6 p.m in Miller Theater.
Admission is free and on a first come, first served basis. Check out more information about the concert here on Miller Theater's website.
Mary Kouyoumdjian Pieces Premiered by Hotel Elefant, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Alarm Will Sound, Kronos Quartet
posted
Jun
3,
2016
This summer, pieces by Mary Kouyoumdjian, current DMA student in composition, will be premiered and/or performed by a number of ensembles, including Hotel Elefant, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and the Kronos Quartet.
On June 9 at 7pm, her work Become Who I Am, presented by the New York Philharmonic, will be performed at Lincoln Center by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus along with the contemporary ensemble Hotel Elefant. Later this summer, Mary will be in residence at the Mizzou International Composers Festival, where the ensemble Alarm Will Sound will premiere her work Paper Pianos.
Also taking place this summer: the Kronos Quartet will perform Mary's piece Bombs of Beirut in Poland and will give the Bay Area premiere of Silent Cranes at Cal Performances. This spring, the Kronos Quartet performed Bombs of Beirut and an arrangement of Mary's piece Groung [Crane] in the UK and Canada, receiving a very favorable review by The Guardian.
Mary has also received support from the Brooklyn Youth Chorus' MAP Fund, and a piece of hers will be featured in the Chorus' 25th anniversary season in 2016-2017.
Maja Cerar to Perform in New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
posted
Jun
2,
2016
Maja Cerar will be a featured performer in the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival at the National Sawdust in June 2016. NYCEMF 2016 will showcase electroacoustic music and video art from around the world, and Professor Cerar will perform Tania León's Axon, Ken Ueno's Vedananupassana, Elizabeth Hoffman's Fastenings (world premiere), Liubo Borissov/Maja Cerar's Autopoiesis and Paolo Gatti's Poltergeist.
For more information, please see the NYCEMF's webpage.
Zosha Di Castri's "Patina" for the Concert "Shared Madness" Reviewed in New York Times
posted
Jun
2,
2016
Professor Zosha Di Castri's piece "Patina" for solo violin, commissioned by Jenny Koh for the concert "Shared Madness" that took place at the National Sawdust on May 31, was reviewed by Corinna da Fonseca-Wallheim for the New York Times: "Zosha Di Castri's 'Patina' wove contemporary preoccupations -- with microtonal shadings and the relation of music to noise -- in a score tense with wild fluctuations in temperament."
Here is the full text of the review.