Magdalena Stern-Baczewska (Director, MPP) has recently given performances in Chicago and Charleston, and on November 16 at Columbia's Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America.
Professor Ellie Hisama was the 2016 speaker in the Judy Tsou ’75 Music Scholars Series at Skidmore College.
Columbia University has announced that Cliff Colnot, distinguished conductor, composer, arranger and educator, is the recipient of the 2016 Ditson Conductor’s Award for the advancement of American music.
Zosha Di Castri has been awarded a Koussevitzky Commission by the Library of Congress to write a piece for the International Contemporary Ensemble with Steven Schick.
Andrew Sorensen, live coding. Photo courtesy of Andrew R. Brown
Marc Hannaford published "The Challenge of Comparing Improvisation across Domains," co-authored with Andrew Goldman, in American Music Review, Spring 2016.
The Music Department is offering a wide range of elective courses this semester.
For the entire listing, please see Directory of Classes.
Magdalena Stern-Baczewska's new album, "Magdalena Baczewska Plays Chopin and Szymanowski," is already enjoying enthusiastic reviews. Now available for pre-ordering in digital and CD format, the official release date is September 9th, 2016.
Stephen Lehman (DMA, Composition, 2012) has released a new album, Sélébéyone, in collaboration with French saxophonist Maciek Lasserre.
Read the interview with Courtney Bryan (DMA, Composition, 2014) about the première of "The Dream Unfinished."
Zosha Di Castri's orchestral piece Lineage had its Japanese première at Suntory Hall on August 30th in a performance by the Tokyo Symphony alongside works by Kaija Saariaho (the featured theme composer) and Jean Sibelius. On September 2, Di Castri's String Quartet No.1 was given its première as the Canadian Commission Round of the Banff International String Quartet Competition.
The complete listing of Graduate and Undergraduate Music classes for Fall 2016 is now available. Featured new and elective courses for this semester include Paris for Romantics, Music in Multimedia, Bach: St. Matthew Passion, Jazz and Cinema, Popular Music Aesthetics and Sexuality in Music and Dance Cultures.
Columbia Composition DMA student Stylianos Dimou's piece "my grounding | surrounding [it]_self / h_I. v.2" (2015-2016) for one percussionist and electronics has been awarded First Prize at the Concorso Internazionale di Composizione “Amici della Musica di Cagliari” 2016. The piece will be performed in Cagliari on the 28th of September.
DMA alumnus Jeff Talman has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Music and Sound. Less than 4% of applicants to the award receive it - congratulations for this very prestigious fellowship, Dr. Talman! More information can be found on NYFA's website, here.
Nansong Huang (Columbia College/Juilliard Exchange 2016) gave a successful and well-attended piano recital at the Columbia Global Center in Beijing. Over one hundred people attended, and Nansong gave a short speech to the audience after the recital on the importance of music education. For a more complete write-up of the event, please visit the write-up done by the Columbia Global Center in Beijing.
Professor George Lewis was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy on July 15, 2016: http://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-george-lewis Congratulations, Professor Lewis!
The Computer Music Center was awarded a faculty grant for their Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), History of Music Production Techniques, which will be taught by Terry Pender. Congratulations, CMC!
Alec Hall (DMA, Composition, 2016) is featured as a composer in the Manifeste 2016's Chamber Music Composition Workshop concert in Paris this evening at 7pm. More information here. Congratulations, Alec!
Harald Kisiedu (PhD, Historical Musicology, 2014) has been appointed Post-Doctoral Fellow at Memorial University of Newfoundland's International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation for 2016-2017.