Professor Brad Garton is going to be the keynote speaker at the 2019 International Computer Music Conference going on this week (his speech is tomorrow at 4:30 PM), and one of his book-readings will be a 'featured piece' on the 2019 New York Electroacoustic Music Festival that evening.

The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Marc Hannaford, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in music theory, "One Line, Many Views: Perspectives on Music Theory, Composition, and Improvisation through the Work of Muhal Richard Abrams," on May 31, 2019.

The Department is delighted to congratulate Dr. Eamonn Bell, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in music theory, "The computational attitude in music theory," on May 16, 2019.

GS student Sondra Woodruff was featured in Commencement Student Stories featuring the Class of 2019.

Marc Hannaford will join Columbia's department of music as Lecturer in Discipline (Music Theory) in the Fall of 2019. He will teach classes in the undergraduate music theory sequence as well as electives that reflect his interests in performance, improvisation, identity, and experimental music.

Music theory graduate student Marc Hannaford published “Sites for Formation 1984: John Zorn Completes Cobra” in issue 21 of Sound American, “the Change issue.”

Composition graduate student Katherine Balch was recently featured in the San Francisco Chronicle in review of her new violin concerto, "Artifacts". The world premiere was given at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek on Sunday, May 5th, 2019, by violinist Robyn Bollinger with Donato Cabrera of the California Symphony.

Congratulations to Columbia Ethnomusicology PhD candidate Katie Radishofski, who has been awarded a Kluge Graduate Fellowship, in the Columbia Undergraduate Scholars Program (CUSP), for the 2019-2020 academic year.