Professor Di Castri’s new work for solo piano, “The Untellable Hour of Quiet”, received its world premiere by pianist Clare Longendyke with a performance in Bridgton, Maine.
Mariusz Kozak published a chapter titled "Varieties of Musical Time" in the edited volume "Performing Time: Synchrony and Temporal Flow in Music and Dance."
Professor Alessandra Ciucci was interviewed on the CaMP Anthropology blog about her book The Voice of the Rural. "CaMP" stands for "Communication, Media and Performance."
Magdalena Stern-Baczewska (Director, Music Performance Program) has released a new solo album, "'The French Suites' by J.S. Bach."
The Columbia University Department of Music is delighted to welcome back Dr. Ruth Opara as Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology in the Fall of 2023. She previously was a Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department from 2020–21.
Dr. Scott Gray Douglass (postdoctoral research scholar) has published an article in the "International Journal of Music Education" entitled "Fishers of Song: Music Education and Community in Andavadoaka, Madagascar."
Peter M. Susser, Director of Undergraduate Musicianship, curated an exhibit in the Music Library of materials from the class, “The Song Within Us.”
Professor Kevin Fellezs has published an article, "The Ultra-Violence: Death Angel and Asian American Presence/Absence in Heavy Metal."
Professor Walter Frisch has been selected as a Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
Ramin Amir Arjomand (DMA '06 and adjunct instructor) has been honored with the 2022–2023 Steinhardt Teaching Excellence Award at the Steinhardt School, New York University.
Zosha Di Castri and Bethany Younge were named 2023 American Academy of Arts and Letters Music Awards winners. Di Castri is a recipient of the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship in Music, and Younge is a recipient of the Charles Ives Scholarship.
Vince Cherico at the 2023 Grammy Awards.
The Music Performance Program congratulates our faculty, students, and alumni on winning Grammy Awards in two categories: Best Latin Jazz Album and Best Orchestral Performance.
On January 31, Professor Julia Doe was featured in an extended interview on “In Time to the Music,” a program on BBC Radio 4.
In January 2023, Susan Boynton became Director of The University Seminars, an ongoing community of partnerships each of which is constituted by scholars from multiple academic departments and disciplines, often including experts from outside academia, and is devoted to the study of an institution, practice, or issue of theoretical and/or practical importance.
Magdalena Stern-Baczewska gave a virtual lecture "Chopin and the Bel Canto Style" at the Xi'an Conservatory of Music, inaugurating the 2022 Piano International Academic Exchange Week.
Professor Marcos Balter and Dr. Tyshawn Sorey (DMA 2017) have received 2022 Music Commissions from Koussevitzky Foundation from the Library of Congress.
Professor Mariusz Kozak won the Society for Music Theory Popular Music Interest Group Outstanding Publication Award at the joint AMS/SEM/SMT Annual Meeting in New Orleans this past week.
“Moves” for Cello Quartet by Peter M. Susser was performed by cellists of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra on Sunday, November 6 at the Jamesport Meeting House in Jamesport, NY.