Alumnus Dr. Scott Gleason publishes article "Hearing Henry Grimes’s Jazz Spectralism" in Perspectives of New Music: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/338/article/902895.
The Department warmly congratulates Makulumy Alexander-Hills, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Music Theory), “Engaging with Musical Theater Practitioners' Vernacular Musical Knowledge as Music-Theoretical Practice,” on November 16, 2023.
Here are all the members of the Department of Music who participated in the 2023 joint meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory in Denver, CO.
Professor Mariusz Kozak won two publication awards at the 2023 joint meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory in Denver.
Dr. Marc Hannaford received the SMT Emerging Scholar Award for his article "Fugitive music theory and George Russell's theory of tonal gravity."
Professor Mariusz Kozak was interviewed by Columbia College News about the recently launched program in Cognitive Science, which he is directing.
Come to the Music Open House on Wednesday, November 1st from 5–7 PM in 701C Dodge Hall to see what Music at Columbia is all about!
The Department warmly congratulates Ian Sewell, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Music Theory), “When All You Have Is A Hammer: Problems in Schenkerian Analysis,” on September 28, 2023.
Mariusz Kozak published a chapter titled "Varieties of Musical Time" in the edited volume "Performing Time: Synchrony and Temporal Flow in Music and Dance."
The Department warmly congratulates Cheng Wei Lim, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Music Theory), “Music in, as, for, and through Virtual Spaces,” on June 15, 2023.
Dr. Benjamin Hansberry (GSAS '17, Music Theory) has been promoted to Associate Director for Graduate Student Teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Cheng-Wei Lim published an article in 19th Century Music titled "Heroic Narratives and Chopin's Polonaise in Ab Major, Op. 53."
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.
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.
In a new article published by the Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music, composer, performer, and music scholar William Mason (GSAS '15, Music Theory) considers excerpts from pieces by Grisey and Murail against Zosha Di Castri's and David Adamcyk’s 2015 piece "Phonobellow."
Makulumy Alexander-Hills's article, "Audio Mediation Technology and Liveness in Modern Musical Theatre Performance," has been published in "Studies in Musical Theatre" Vol. 16, No. 1 (April 2022).
The Columbia University Department of Music is delighted to announce that Dr. Knar Abrahamyan will be joining our department as Assistant Professor in Music Theory and Race in 2023.
Nicola Hein (GSAS, MA '22, Music Theory) has been appointed Professor of Digital Creation at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, starting October 2022, where he will teach sound art and electronic music.