New Recording and Music Video
posted
Dec
6,
2017
Peter Susser’s Cello Suite (2016) was recorded by Laura Usiskin (Columbia/Juilliard 2008) as part of her “Reimagining Bach” solo cd.
Composition News
Tyshawn Sorey Named MacArthur Fellow
posted
Oct
11,
2017
Congratulations to Tyshawn Sorey (DMA Composition '17), who has been named a 2017 MacArthur Fellow!
Assemblage: New Album of George Lewis
posted
Oct
8,
2017
“Assemblage,” a new album by Ensemble Dal Niente on New World Records, brings a rewarding look at fresh pieces by the composer and performer George Lewis.
Yair Klartag a Finalist in Geneva Competition
posted
Oct
2,
2017
Yair Klartag, a DMA candidate in Composition at Columbia, has been selected as one of three winners in the prestigious Geneva Competition
Mario Diaz de Leon's New Album
posted
Sep
29,
2017
Mario Diaz de Leon (DMA ’13), Core Lecturer in Music Humanities, has released his third composer portrait album, entitled “Sanctuary.”
Marin Alsop Wins 2017 Ditson Conductor’s Award
posted
Sep
17,
2017
Marin Alsop, distinguished conductor and Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, is the recipient of the 2017 Ditson Conductor’s Award for the advancement of American music, Columbia University has announced.
Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow/Lecturer Position
posted
Sep
1,
2017
The Department of Music at Columbia University invites applications for Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships. Appointment will be at the rank of Mellon Teaching Fellow/Lecturer, for a period of two years to begin July 1, 2018.
Featured New and Elective Courses FALL 2017
posted
Aug
23,
2017
This semester, the Department of Music is offering courses on Beethoven, Divas, Monsters, Material Girls: Women in Music Video; and Transpacific Musicology: Monsters, Princesses, Bombs at Sea. Graduate seminars include Music and Early Modernism, 1880-1920; Ruth Crawford Seeger; and Analysis of Musical Form.
Tyshawn Sorey in The New Yorker magazine and The New York Times
posted
Jul
3,
2017
Illustration by Gaurab Thakali for The New Yorker
Tyshawn Sorey (DMA '17) is featured in an article by Alex Ross in The New Yorker of July 10/17, 2017 and in a New York Times profile (August 2, 2017).
Music Faculty and Grad Students Receive CAETR Grant
posted
Jul
3,
2017
Columbia Music faculty and graduate students, led by Prof. Ellie Hisama, have been awarded a grant from the Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research (CAETR) at Columbia University, for a project entitled For the Daughters of Harlem: Working with Sound.
George Lewis Receives Honorary Doctorate from New College of Florida
posted
Jun
14,
2017
On May 26th, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music George Lewis gave the commencement address at the New College of Florida, where 181 students received diplomas.
Columbia Composers at the Ojai Music Festival
posted
Jun
8,
2017
This year's Ojai Music Festival prominently features several Composition alumni and faculty: Courtney Bryan, Mario Diaz de Leon, George Lewis, and Tyshawn Sorey.
New Releases by George Lewis
posted
May
31,
2017
Several new recordings of Professor George Lewis' compositions have been released: The Will To Adorn, with International Contemporary Ensemble; Creative Construction, with Splitter Orchester; Not Alone, with Seth Parker Woods on cello; and Spinner, with Mariel Roberts on cello.
Congratulations to our Graduates!
posted
May
24,
2017
Congratulations to all of our graduates from the 2016-2017 academic year!
Fred Lerdahl New York Premiere: Time and Again
posted
May
24,
2017
League of Composers Orchestra's Ninth Season Finale this coming Thursday at 7:30 at Miller Theatre
Columbia's esteemed Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition and director of the Fritz Reiner Center, Alfred Lerdahl, will be presenting the New York Premiere of Time and Again with the League of Composers Orchestra
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. MATTHEW RICKETTS!
posted
May
13,
2017
The Department warmly congratulates Matthew Ricketts, who successfully defended his DMA dissertation in Composition, Texts—Textures—Intertexts: The Orchestral Worlds of Brian Cherney, on May 12, 2017.
2017 Composition Prizes Announced
posted
May
13,
2017
The Department announces the 2017 named awards in Composition, honoring three undergraduate students and five graduate students.
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI!
posted
May
13,
2017
The Department warmly congratulates Christopher Trapani, who successfully defended his DMA dissertation in Composition, Convergence Lines: A Musical Distillation of Thomas Pynchon’s V, on April 28, 2017.