Dr. Mahir Cetiz (DMA ’13), former Lecturer in Music and Adjunct Professor of Composition at Columbia, has accepted an offer to join the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at the University of Memphis as Assistant Professor of Composition and Music Theory, starting in Fall 2020. Dr. Cetiz received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017, and his works have received performances by renowned ensembles, such as New York Philharmonic, Ensemble InterContemporain, and Wet Ink.  His dissertation, “Listening and Musical Composition: Spectromorphological Analysis of Enfilade: Lamento-Cambiata," was advised by Prof. Fred Lerdahl.

Congratulations, Dr. Cetiz!