Call for Applications: FAB-Musiconis, Fall 2017
posted
Sep
27,
2017
Applications are now being accepted for the Fall 2017 session of FAB-Musiconis.
News
Alessandra Ciucci Publishes Article in Ethnomusicology Forum
posted
Sep
18,
2017
Alessandra Ciucci, Assistant Professor of Music, has published "Performing 'L-alwa:' A Sacred and Erotic Journey in Morocco" in Ethnomusicology Forum vol. 26 No. 2 (2017): 151-70.
Marin Alsop Wins 2017 Ditson Conductor’s Award
posted
Sep
17,
2017
Marin Alsop, distinguished conductor and Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, is the recipient of the 2017 Ditson Conductor’s Award for the advancement of American music, Columbia University has announced.
Anne Gefell (1955-2017)
posted
Sep
5,
2017
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Anne Gefell, the Departmental Director of Academic Administration and Finance.
Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow/Lecturer Position
posted
Sep
1,
2017
The Department of Music at Columbia University invites applications for Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships. Appointment will be at the rank of Mellon Teaching Fellow/Lecturer, for a period of two years to begin July 1, 2018.
Paula Harper and Michael Weinstein-Reiman Present at Feminist Theory and Music 14
posted
Aug
30,
2017
PhD candidates Paula Harper (HM) and Michael Weinstein-Reiman (Theory) presented papers on Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj at the international biennial Feminist Theory and Music conference at San Francisco State University, July 27-30. Congratulations, Paula and Michael!
Featured New and Elective Courses FALL 2017
posted
Aug
23,
2017
This semester, the Department of Music is offering courses on Beethoven, Divas, Monsters, Material Girls: Women in Music Video; and Transpacific Musicology: Monsters, Princesses, Bombs at Sea. Graduate seminars include Music and Early Modernism, 1880-1920; Ruth Crawford Seeger; and Analysis of Musical Form.
Tyshawn Sorey in The New Yorker magazine and The New York Times
posted
Jul
3,
2017
Illustration by Gaurab Thakali for The New Yorker
Tyshawn Sorey (DMA '17) is featured in an article by Alex Ross in The New Yorker of July 10/17, 2017 and in a New York Times profile (August 2, 2017).
Music Faculty and Grad Students Receive CAETR Grant
posted
Jul
3,
2017
Columbia Music faculty and graduate students, led by Prof. Ellie Hisama, have been awarded a grant from the Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research (CAETR) at Columbia University, for a project entitled For the Daughters of Harlem: Working with Sound.
George Lewis Receives Honorary Doctorate from New College of Florida
posted
Jun
14,
2017
On May 26th, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music George Lewis gave the commencement address at the New College of Florida, where 181 students received diplomas.
Columbia Composers at the Ojai Music Festival
posted
Jun
8,
2017
This year's Ojai Music Festival prominently features several Composition alumni and faculty: Courtney Bryan, Mario Diaz de Leon, George Lewis, and Tyshawn Sorey.
Sean Hallowell Receives Stanford Thinking Matters Fellowship
posted
May
31,
2017
Sean Hallowell (PhD, 2013) is a 2018-2020 recipient of the Thinking Matters Fellowship at Stanford University. The Fellowship offers an opportunity for recent recipients of doctoral degrees to teach in an innovative liberal education program with a cohort of like-minded colleagues from a wide variety of different disciplines.
New Releases by George Lewis
posted
May
31,
2017
Several new recordings of Professor George Lewis' compositions have been released: The Will To Adorn, with International Contemporary Ensemble; Creative Construction, with Splitter Orchester; Not Alone, with Seth Parker Woods on cello; and Spinner, with Mariel Roberts on cello.
Emily Clark awarded Fulbright and GSAS Traveling Fellowships
posted
May
26,
2017
Ethnomusicology PhD candidate Emily Clark has been awarded two fellowships, including a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship(DDRF) and a GSAS Mellon Humanities International Travel Fellowship from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia.
Congratulations to our Graduates!
posted
May
24,
2017
Congratulations to all of our graduates from the 2016-2017 academic year!
Maria Sonevytsky Appointed to UC Berkeley
posted
May
24,
2017
Maria Sonevytsky (PhD, Ethnomusicology, 2012) has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California at Berkeley, beginning July 2018.
Fred Lerdahl New York Premiere: Time and Again
posted
May
24,
2017
League of Composers Orchestra's Ninth Season Finale this coming Thursday at 7:30 at Miller Theatre
Columbia's esteemed Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition and director of the Fritz Reiner Center, Alfred Lerdahl, will be presenting the New York Premiere of Time and Again with the League of Composers Orchestra
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. MATTHEW RICKETTS!
posted
May
13,
2017
The Department warmly congratulates Matthew Ricketts, who successfully defended his DMA dissertation in Composition, Texts—Textures—Intertexts: The Orchestral Worlds of Brian Cherney, on May 12, 2017.