Please Welcome Erica Lockhart!
posted
Jan
2,
2018
Please welcome Erica Lockhart as our new Director of Academic Administration and Finance in the Music Department!
News
Ciucci and Doe Win Provost Grants
posted
Dec
18,
2017
Alessandra Ciucci and Julia Doe, Assistant Professors of Music, have each won grants from the Provost’s Program for Junior Faculty who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University.
These competitive awards, of up to $25,000, support new or ongoing research and scholarship, seed funding for innovative research for which external funding would be difficult to obtain, and curricular development projects.
Prof. Ciucci’s project is entitled “Resonances of the Rural Across the Mediterranean: Music, Sound and Moroccan Men in Italy.” Prof. Doe’s is “The Comedians of the King: Opéra-Comique and the Bourbon Monarchy on the Eve of Revolution.”
Giving in Memory of Anne Marie Gefell
posted
Dec
16,
2017
Lights on College Walk in December
The Department of Music welcomes gifts in memory of Anne Marie Gefell (1955-2017).
New Recording and Music Video
posted
Dec
6,
2017
Peter Susser’s Cello Suite (2016) was recorded by Laura Usiskin (Columbia/Juilliard 2008) as part of her “Reimagining Bach” solo cd.
Eben Graves Publishes Article in Journal of Hindu Studies
posted
Nov
15,
2017
Abstract: This article studies the relationship between the discourse of Bengali cultural nationalism and the devotional song genre of padāvalī kīrtan in the early twentieth century.
PhD candidate Hicham Chami has been awarded the 2017 T. Temple Tuttle Prize
posted
Nov
1,
2017
Ethnomusicology PhD candidate Hicham Chami has been awarded the 2017 T. Temple Tuttle Prize for best student paper presented at the annual meeting of the Niagara Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
Benjamin Steege Publishes Articles in Music & Letters and History of Humanities
posted
Oct
25,
2017
Benjamin Steege has published two articles: "Antipsychologism in Interwar Musical Thought: Two Ways of Hearing Debussy," in Music & Letters and "Between Race and Culture: Hearing Japanese Music in Berlin," in History of Humanities.
Tyshawn Sorey Named MacArthur Fellow
posted
Oct
11,
2017
Congratulations to Tyshawn Sorey (DMA Composition '17), who has been named a 2017 MacArthur Fellow!
Assemblage: New Album of George Lewis
posted
Oct
8,
2017
“Assemblage,” a new album by Ensemble Dal Niente on New World Records, brings a rewarding look at fresh pieces by the composer and performer George Lewis.
Yair Klartag a Finalist in Geneva Competition
posted
Oct
2,
2017
Yair Klartag, a DMA candidate in Composition at Columbia, has been selected as one of three winners in the prestigious Geneva Competition
Mario Diaz de Leon's New Album
posted
Sep
29,
2017
Mario Diaz de Leon (DMA ’13), Core Lecturer in Music Humanities, has released his third composer portrait album, entitled “Sanctuary.”
Call for Applications: FAB-Musiconis, Fall 2017
posted
Sep
27,
2017
Applications are now being accepted for the Fall 2017 session of FAB-Musiconis.
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.