Historical Musicology News
Dr. Julia Hamilton Appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology at Ithaca College
Dr. Julia Hamilton has accepted the position of Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology at the Ithaca College School of Music, Theatre, and Dance.
Dr. Harald Kisiedu (GSAS '14, Historical Musicology) and Professor George Lewis Announce New Bilingual Edited Volume on Afrodiasporic Composers
Dr. Harald Kisiedu (GSAS '14, Historical Musicology) and Professor George Lewis have just announced their new bilingual (German-English) edited volume, "'Composing While Black': Afrodiasporische Neue Musik Heute / Afrodiasporic New Music Today."
Sonja Wermager Defends Dissertation
The Department warmly congratulates Sonja Wermager, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), titled “Robert Schumann and 'the Artist's Highest Goal': Religion, Romanticism, and Nation in the Late Choral Works” on May 2, 2023.
Sean Colonna Defends Dissertation
The Department warmly congratulates Sean Colonna, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), titled “Musical Aesthetics, Drugs, and Subjectivity in Germany, 1770s—1820s” on April 13, 2023.
Dr. Qingfan Jiang Appointed Assistant Professor in Musicology at Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Qingfan Jiang has accepted the position of Assistant Professor in Musicology at Peabody Conservatory (Johns Hopkins University).
Dr. John Glasenapp Publishes Article in Co-edited Volume
Dr. John Glasenapp (GSAS '20, Historical Musicology) has contributed an article to "Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 1000 – 1500," edited by Julie Hotchin and Jirki Thibaut.
Walter Frisch Named 2023–24 Fellow of the Institute for Ideas and Imagination
Professor Walter Frisch has been selected as a Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
Professor Julia Doe Featured on BBC Radio
On January 31, Professor Julia Doe was featured in an extended interview on “In Time to the Music,” a program on BBC Radio 4.
Professor Susan Boynton Now Director of University Seminars
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.
Operatic Feminisms: On and Off the Opera Stage
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 Appointed Instructor of Musicology at University of Alabama
Jonathan Ligrani has been appointed Instructor of Musicology at the University of Alabama, beginning January 2023.
Sonja Wermager Publishes Article in "19th-Century Music"
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."
Sonja Wermager and Callum Blackmore Publish Chapters in “Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century”
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."
Richard Taruskin (1945-2022)
The Department of Music notes with sadness the passing of Richard Taruskin, who spent 26 years at Columbia as student and professor.
Dr. Lucy Turner Defends Dissertation
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 Publishes Chapter in "String Quartets in Beethoven’s Europe"
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 Awarded 2021–2022 Core Preceptor Award and Third Place in Vagantes Paper Prize
Anya Wilkening has received the 2021-2022 Core Preceptor Award for Excellence in Teaching Music Humanities.