Dr. Bill Dougherty (DMA, '21) has been named a 2023–24 Fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Center for Advanced Study. The Radcliffe Fellowship allows scholars, writers, journalists and other professionals from many fields of study a full year to pursue projects in an interdisciplinary setting.
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 prizes for distinction in Music Composition, awarded annually to undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate distinction in the area of Music Composition, as determined by a committee of faculty members in the Composition area.
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 prizes for distinction in Music Composition, awarded annually to undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate distinction in the area of Music Composition, as determined by a committee of faculty members in the Composition area.
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 prizes for distinction in Music Composition, awarded annually to undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate distinction in the area of Music Composition, as determined by a committee of faculty members in the Composition area.
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 prizes for distinction in Music Composition, awarded annually to undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate distinction in the area of Music Composition, as determined by a committee of faculty members in the Composition area.
After two years working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University, first as a recipient of the Early Career Fellowship in the Music Department and then as a Core Lecturer of Contemporary Civilization, Mario Cancel Bigay will be a Clinical Assistant Professor in Global Musicology at NYU’s Liberal Studies School.
The Department warmly congratulates Emily Praetorius, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Temporal Plane Shifting and Suspended Time in 'Something Like Your Lagrangian Point' and 'Nothing Never Always Sometimes Changes'" on May 3, 2023.
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.
Dr. Christopher Trapani (DMA '17) will join the Faculties of the LSU School of Music and the LSU Center for Computation and Technology as Assistant Professor of Experimental Music & Digital Media. He will begin in January 2024.
The Columbia University Department of Music is delighted to welcome back Dr. Ruth Opara as Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology in the Fall of 2023. She previously was a Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department from 2020–21.
The Department warmly congratulates Bethany Younge, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Body as Music: Mauricio Kagels' 'Repertoire' from 'Staatstheater' and Marina Rosenfeld's 'My Body'" on April 20, 2023.
Dr. Scott Gray Douglass (postdoctoral research scholar) has published an article in the "International Journal of Music Education" entitled "Fishers of Song: Music Education and Community in Andavadoaka, Madagascar."
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 has accepted the position of Assistant Professor in Musicology at Peabody Conservatory (Johns Hopkins University).
The Department warmly congratulates Finola Merivale, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Community Co-Creation and Virtual Reality in Opera: Composing 'Out of the Ordinary: As an nGnách'" on April 7, 2023.
The Department warmly congratulates Saad Haddad, who successfully defended his DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "On the Transmigration of the Arab Soul: A Case Study in Contemporary Composition" on April 4, 2023.
Peter M. Susser, Director of Undergraduate Musicianship, curated an exhibit in the Music Library of materials from the class, “The Song Within Us.”
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.