George Lewis awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Harvard
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May
29,
2018
Our colleague George Lewis was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Harvard in this year's Commencement.
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Courtney Bryan has won the 2018 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts
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May
21,
2018
Composer and pianist Courtney Bryan (DMA Composition, 2014) works in multiple genres, both sacred and secular, including jazz and other experimental music, traditional gospel, spirituals, and hymns. Unifying her compositions - solo to orchestral works, choral music and sound installations - is a desire to “communicate the sounds of rebellion and healing.”
Alumna Dr. Lauren Flood Appointed Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Pennsylvania
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May
18,
2018
The Ethnomusicology community at Columbia is delighted to congratulate our PhD alumna, Dr. Lauren Flood (PhD, 2016), who has been appointed as a Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at the Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Trevor Reed Appointed Associate Professor of Law at Arizona State University
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May
18,
2018
The Ethnomusicology community at Columbia is delighted to congratulate Trevor Reed (Hopi), a joint JD/PhD student in Law and Ethnomusicology at Columbia, who has been appointed as an Associate Professor of Law at Arizona State University.
Whitney Slaten Appointed Assistant Professor at Bard College
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May
18,
2018
The Ethnomusicology community at Columbia is thrilled to congratulate our PhD alumnus Whitney J. Slaten, who has been appointed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Bard College (Annandale on Hudson, NY), where he will begin teaching in Fall 2018.
William Mason appointed Assistant Professor at Wheaton College
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May
17,
2018
William Mason has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Music at Wheaton College in Norton Massachusetts.
Galen DeGraf Defends Dissertation
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May
15,
2018
Congratulations to Galen DeGraf, a Ph.D candidate in Music Theory, who successfully defended his dissertation, "Navigating Musical Periodicities: Modes of Perception and Types of Temporal Knowledge," on May 14th!
CONGRATULATIONS, CLASS OF 2018!
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May
15,
2018
The Columbia University Department of Music extends heartfelt congratulations to our 2018 graduates.
Anne Levitsky Defends Dissertation
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May
8,
2018
Anne Levitsky, Ph.D. student in Historical Musicology, successfully defended her dissertation, "The Song from the Singer: Personification, Embodiment, and Anthropomorphization in Troubadour Lyric," on April 12.
Tom Fogg Defends Dissertation
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May
7,
2018
Thomas Fogg, a graduate student in Historical Musicology, successfully defended his dissertation, "Expériences sonores: Music in Postwar Paris and the Changing Sense of Sound," on May 7.
Mark Seto Appointed to Brown University
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May
6,
2018
Mark Seto (GSAS PhD '12) has been appointed Lecturer in Music and Director of the Brown Symphony Orchestra, beginning in Fall 2018.
Zosha Di Castri Awarded Institute for Ideas and Imagination Fellowship
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May
1,
2018
Zosha Di Castri ,the Francis Goelet Assistant Professor of Music, will be one of the Fellows at Columbia's new Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris.
Julia Doe receives NEH Fellowship
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May
1,
2018
Julia Doe receives the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in Music History and Criticism:
The Comedians of the King: Opéra-Comique and the Bourbon Monarchy on the Eve of Revolution.
Alumna Wang Lu has won the Berlin Prize
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Apr
30,
2018
The highly coveted Berlin Prize is awarded annually to scholars, writers, composers, and artists from the United States who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields.
Alumni News: Guggenheim Fellowship 2018
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Apr
20,
2018
Edward Jacobs, Yoshiaki Onishi, and Mika Pelo are three of the (former) Columbia Composers who are recipients of Guggenheim Fellowship this year. Congratulations!
Alessandra Ciucci Awarded 2018-2019 Rome Prize
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Apr
13,
2018
Congratulations to Alessandra Ciucci, who has been awarded the 2018-2019 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies!
Niels Ostbye, 1924-2018
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Mar
31,
2018
Our retired Associate in the Music Performance Program, Niels Østbye, died on March 19, 2018, at his home in Grandview-on-Hudson, NY, at the age of 93. He taught at Columbia from 1967 until his retirement in 2016.
Please Welcome Seth Cluett
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Feb
28,
2018
Please join us in welcoming Seth Cluett, the new Assistant Director of the Computer Music Center.