The Department of Music is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Seth Cluett as the Director of the Computer Music Center.
The Columbia University Department of Music is delighted to announce that Dr. Knar Abrahamyan will be joining our department as Assistant Professor in Music Theory and Race in 2023.
Drs. Alessandra Ciucci and Bill Dougherty (DMA 2021) have been selected as Fellows at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
Zosha Di Castri was commissioned by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition's Grossman Ensemble to write a world premiere, entitled "time>>T. - - I. - - M.(time) - - E."
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.
Magdalena Stern-Baczewska (Director, MPP), together with clarinetist Carol McGonnel and Orchestre de Chambre du Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau, gave a U.S. premiere of Charles Fox's Fantaisie for Clarinet, Piano, and Orchestra, with the composer at the podium.
Alessandra Ciucci, Hicham Chami, Paola Cossermelli Messina and Jessie Rubin were awarded an Art & Science Equity and Diversity Grant for "Decolonizing the Ear: Reimagining 'West Asia' in Asian Music Humanities."
Alessandra Ciucci, assistant professor of music, has published a new monograph The Voice of the Rural: Music, Poetry, and Masculinity among Migrant Moroccan Men in Umbria. The book is available through the University of Chicago Press.
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 of Music notes with sadness the passing of Professor Emeritus Leeman L. Perkins on Friday, March 25, just several days before what would have been his 90th birthday.
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.
Professor Mariusz Kozak has published a new article titled “Feeling Meter: Kinesthetic Knowledge and the Case of Recent Progressive Metal” in the latest issue of the "Journal of Music Theory."
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.
Each year, the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Awards honor the presence and work of extraordinary faculty in Arts and Sciences. Nominated by students, colleagues, chairs, and deans, these faculty represent the highest achievements of research, teaching, and service to Columbia and to the world.
Professor Kevin Fellezs has published an article in the journal Rock Music Studies. The article is titled "Those Days Are Gone Forever: Steely Dan's Grumpy Old Guys' Blues."
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Mike Ford, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), titled "An Agile Musicology: Improvisation in Corporate Management and Lean Startups" on November 30, 2021.