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.
The Department announces the 2017 named awards in Composition, honoring three undergraduate students and five graduate students.
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.
Katherine Balch has been announced as the 2017-2018 Young Concert Artists Composer-in-Residence, the 11th composer to receive this honor.
Core Lecturer Mahir Cetiz (DMA, Composition, 2013) has been awarded a 2017 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Alec Hall (DMA, Composition, 2015) has been awarded a 2017 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
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.
The Department's annual newsletter with faculty, student, and alumni news and accomplishments of the past year is now available for download.
The Associazione Amici per la Musica has awarded First Prize to Dimou in the Luigi Nono competition.
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 has been awarded a Koussevitzky Commission by the Library of Congress to write a piece for the International Contemporary Ensemble with Steven Schick.
The Music Department is offering a wide range of elective courses this semester.
For the entire listing, please see Directory of Classes.
Stephen Lehman (DMA, Composition, 2012) has released a new album, Sélébéyone, in collaboration with French saxophonist Maciek Lasserre.
Read the interview with Courtney Bryan (DMA, Composition, 2014) about the première of "The Dream Unfinished."
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.
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.
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!
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!