Professor Kozak Publishes Piece on Live Music in The Conversation
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Oct
19,
2021
Professor Mariusz Kozak has published his piece "What’s behind the magic of live music?" in The Conversation.
Faculty News
Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program Profiled in Columbia Magazine
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Oct
14,
2021
By Greg Betza for Columbia Magazine
The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program (LAJPP) was profiled by Paul Hond in the Fall 2021 issue of Columbia Magazine.
Professor Zosha Di Castri Co-founds Matricalis, a Web-Hub on Music & Motherhood
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Sep
20,
2021
Zosha Di Castri, Olivia De Prato, Allison Loggins-Hull, and Alice Teyssier announce the launch of Matricalis, a website and community hub that reflects on the impact of motherhood on individual musicians.
Professor Kevin Fellezs Receives Honorable Mention from Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
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Sep
20,
2021
Professor Kevin Fellezs has received an Honorable Mention as the 2021 Best Subsequent Book Award from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA).
Magdalena Stern-Baczewska Gives World Premiere of "Prelude and Fugue" by Gene Pritsker
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Sep
17,
2021
Magdalena Stern-Baczewska gave a world premiere of Prelude and Fugue by Gene Pritsker at the season opening concert of Composers Concordance in DROM NYC.
Article on Workshop For the Daughters of Harlem Now Available
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Aug
24,
2021
An article coauthored by Professor Emerita Ellie Hisama and Dr. Lucie Vágnerová (GSAS '16) on the workshop For the Daughters of Harlem: Working in Sound has been published in Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the Twentieth Century, ed. Charles Hiroshi Garrett and Carol J. Oja (University of Michigan Press, 2021).
Magdalena Stern-Baczewska's Harpsichord Playing Featured on Single
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Aug
24,
2021
Magdalena Stern-Baczewska's harpsichord improvisation is featured on a single "Robo Tribe," recently released on DJ's Daughter, a Brooklyn-based music collective.
Professor Peter Susser Commission from APNM Available on YouTube
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Aug
12,
2021
Peter Susser and Eric Bartlett’s Masked Music Commission from the APNM, “Cinque Bouquets pour Jacques Monod,” is now available on YouTube.
Dr. David Bird Appointed Visiting Assistant Professor at Hamilton College
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Aug
12,
2021
David Bird (DMA '19) has been appointed Visiting Assistant Professor at Hamilton College and will start next year.
Dr. Toru Momii Defends Dissertation
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Jul
28,
2021
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Toru Momii, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Music Theory), titled "Music Analysis and the Politics of Knowledge Production: Interculturality in the Music of Honjoh Hidejirō, Miyata Mayumi, and Mitski" on July 19, 2021.
Dr. Zosha Di Castri Releases Podcast Project "The Dream Feed: Musicians on Motherhood"
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Jul
8,
2021
Professor Zosha Di Castri has launched a new podcast series The Dream Feed: Musicians on Motherhood featuring conversations between musicians on their experiences navigating the seemingly incompatible worlds of professional music and motherhood, sharing in both the personal challenges and profoundly inspiring moments that come with being simultaneously mothers and musicians.
Second Season of Podcast Celebrating Mahler Premieres July 7th
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Jul
5,
2021
“Embrace Everything,” , a podcast series which celebrates the life and music of Gustav Mahler (1860–1911, returns for its second season on Mahler’s 161st birthday, Wednesday, July 7.
Dr. Ruth Opara Accepts Tenure Track Position at Syracuse University
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Jun
29,
2021
Dr. Ruth Opara, a Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of Music at Columbia University, is excited to share that she has accepted a tenure track position in the Department of Arts and Music Histories at Syracuse University.
Professor Mariusz Kozak Publishes Article in Music Theory Online
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Jun
21,
2021
Professor Mariusz Kozak has published an article titled "Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Violin Phase and the Experience of Time, or Why Does Process Music Work?" in Music Theory Online.
Professor Ellie Hisama to be Professor Emerita of Music
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Jun
17,
2021
Ellie M. Hisama to be Professor Emerita of Music, effective July 1, 2021.
Dr. Mary Kouyoumdjian Defends Dissertation
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Jun
8,
2021
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Mary Kouyoumdjian, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music Composition titled "Creating with ghosts: Identity and artistic purpose as Armenian diaspora" on June 4, 2021.
Ellie Hisama Publishes Article "Getting to Count"
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May
28,
2021
Professor Ellie Hisama (Music Theory and Historical Musicology) has published "Getting to Count" as an advance article in Music Theory Spectrum.
Dr. Julia Hamilton Defends Dissertation
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May
27,
2021
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Julia Hamilton, who on May 26, 2021 successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation in Historical Musicology entitled "Political Songs in Polite Society: Singing about Africans in the Time of the British Abolition Movement, 1787 to 1807.”