In response to the disruptions wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Department of Music has elected to pause admissions for its doctoral programs for Fall 2021. Please click on the link for further information.
Columbia alumni Mark Burford (GSAS '05, Historical Musicology) and Maria Sonevytsky (GSAS '11, Ethnomusicology) have won awards at the AMS business meeting on November 8, 2020.
Scott Gleason (GSAS '13) has been elected to Co-Chair the Society for Music Theory's History of Theory Special Interest Group.
Professors Ellie Hisama and Zosha Di Castri have been awarded a Columbia University Faculty Seed Grant to produce “Unsung Stories: Women at Columbia’s Computer Music Center,” as part of the Addressing Racism: A Call to Action for Higher Education initiative.
Historical Musicology graduate student Velia Ivanova has begun her residence at the John W. Kluge Center in Washington D.C., where she holds the Jon B. Lovelace Fellowship.
Susan Boynton was named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes académiques (Order of the French Academic Palms) for service to French culture. This honor is awarded by the Prime Minister of France upon the recommendation of the Ministry of Education.
On Wednesday, August 19, 7-9:30 pm, Marilyn McCoy, Adjunct Assistant Professor, joins radio producer Aaron Cohen and host Naomi Lewin for an online class at the 92nd Street Y, "The World of Gustav Mahler," exploring the composer's symphonies.
Marilyn McCoy, Adjunct Assistant Professor, joins radio producer Aaron Cohen and host Naomi Lewin for an online class at the 92nd Street Y, "The World of Gustav Mahler," exploring the composer's symphonies.
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Russell O'Rourke, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music History titled "Representation, Emotion, and the Madrigal in Sixteenth-Century Italy" on August 12, 2020.
Professors Ellie Hisama and Zosha Di Castri have been awarded one of two 2020 Public Outreach Grants from Columbia's Center for Science and Society.
Dr. Anne Levitsky has been appointed as a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Dixie State University in Saint George, Utah.
Qingfan Jiang was awarded an Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship for her dissertation, “Toward a Global Enlightenment: Music, Missionaries, and the Construction of a Universal History in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China and Europe.”
Prof. George Lewis writes in The New York Times about "lifting the cone of silence" from black American composers.
"Embrace Everything: The World of Gustav Mahler," a new podcast series featuring Adjunct Assistant Professor Marilyn McCoy, will premiere on July 7.
The Department of Music at Columbia welcomes Seth Cluett as Lecturer in Computer Music and Sound Studies starting in the Fall of 2020.
Women, Power, and Popular Music is a new summer course being offered by Professor Ellie Hisama through the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality and crosslisted in Music. Through the new Alumni Summer program, alumni/ae are permitted to register for summer session courses as auditors for a reduced fee.
The winners of the 2019-2020 Core Preceptor Awards for Teaching Excellence in Music Humanities are Sean Colonna and Sonja Wermager.
Dr. Ted Gordon, current Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, will be starting as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Weissman School of Arts & Sciences at Baruch College (CUNY), in the fall.
Michael Weinstein-Reiman, Ph.D. student in Music Theory, has published his article "Printing Piano Pedagogy: Experimental Psychology and Marie Jaëll's Theory of Touch" in the journal Nineteenth-Century Music Review.