Professor Walter Frisch has been selected as a Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
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.
This event bridges the worlds of scholarship, performance, and criticism to think through the possibilities for feminist opera studies and women in opera in the twenty-first century.
Jonathan Ligrani has been appointed Instructor of Musicology at the University of Alabama, beginning January 2023.
Sonja Wermager's article "'Worthy of a Monument in Artistic History:' Religion and Nation in the Plans for Robert Schumann's Unrealized Martin Luther Oratorio" has been published in the most recent issue of "19th-Century Music."
Graduate students Sonja Wermager and Callum Blackmore have both published chapters in the recent volume "Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century: Church, Stage, and Concert Hall."
The Department of Music notes with sadness the passing of Richard Taruskin, who spent 26 years at Columbia as student and professor.
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Lucy Turner, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), titled “Rethinking Beethoven’s Middle Style: Form, Time, and Disruption in the Chamber Music of 1806-15” on June 8, 2022.
Callum Blackmore’s article “Hyacinthe Jadin and the Sound of Revolution: Recovering French String Quartet Aesthetics in 1790s Paris” was recently published in the edited volume "String Quartets in Beethoven’s Europe" (Academic Studies Press, 2022).
Anya Wilkening has received the 2021-2022 Core Preceptor Award for Excellence in Teaching Music Humanities.
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.
Professor George Lewis will receive an honorary Doctor of Music from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Velia Ivanova (GSAS '21, Historical Musicology) has published an article titled “Defining the Songs of Incarceration: The Lomax Prison Project at a Critical Juncture” in the February 2022 issue of the Journal of the Society for American Music.
There is a call for papers for the Columbia Music Scholarship Conference, which is being held through Zoom on April 23, 2022. The deadline for papers is March 4, 2022.
Dr. Paula Harper (GSAS '19, Historical Musicology), previously Assistant Professor of Musicology in the Glenn Korff School of Music at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been appointed Assistant Professor in Music and The College at the University of Chicago.
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.
Dr. Velia Ivanova (GSAS '21, Historical Musicology) has been named a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto beginning January 1, 2022.