Jacques-Louis Monod in 2009. Photo taken by user Acdsat, from Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques-Louis_Monod.jpg
The Department of Music notes with sadness the passing of renowned pianist, composer, and conductor Jacques-Louis Monod (Toulouse, France, February 25, 2917 - September 21, 2020).
Magdalena Stern-Baczewska has released a new EP Hip-Hopsichord, a 5-movement piece for the harpsichord and electronics, written for Baczewska by the composer/DJ/rapper Gene Pritsker.
Dr. Will Mason (Music Theory, 2019) and his band Happy Place have released their microtonal sophomore album "Tendrils," recorded in Brooklyn two days before lockdown started in March.
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.
Nina Fukuoka
Composition graduate student Nina Fukuoka premiered her piece "Sugar, Spice & All Things Nice" at the 63rd Warsaw Autumn Festival on September 23, 2020.
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.
At 8 pm on Thursday, September 10th, ISSUE will stream a 360 degree video presentation of electronic music pioneer Laurie Spiegel’s piece "A Harmonic Algorithm 2011" coordinated in collaboration with composer and artist Seth Cluett.
Kevin Fellezs has published an article titled "From the Island of Berkeley: Hawaiian Belonging in California" in "California Dreaming: Movement and Place in the Asian American Imaginary."
Internationally acclaimed organist and recording artist Gail Archer has announced the release of her ninth album: Chernivtsi: Contemporary Ukrainian Organ Music (Meyer Media).
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.
The Department of Music fully endorses the Statement of Principles for Teaching in the Time of a Pandemic, which was originally published by the Department of English and Comparative Literature.
Curriculum Update
Department of Music Curriculum/Covid-19 Info for Academic Year 2020-2021
The Department of Music is pleased to announce that Ruth Opara and Suzanne Thorpe have been selected as two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows.
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.
Composition graduate students Katherine Balch and William Dougherty have been selected as winners of the American Academy in Rome's 2020-21 Rome Prize.
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.”
