News Archive
Ellie Hisama, Professor Emerita of Music and Dean of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music, was awarded the Edward T. Cone Membership in music studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) for the Fall 2024 term.
The Department warmly congratulates Justin Gregg, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), “Mahler, Politicized: Musical Diplomacy and Internationalism in the 1920 Amsterdam Mahler Festival,” on April 15, 2024.
The Department warmly congratulates Callum Blackmore, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), “Opera at the Dawn of Capitalism: Staging Economic Change in France and Its Colonies from the Regency to the Terror,” on April 10, 2024.
The Department warmly congratulates Calder Hannan, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Music Theory), “Tactus Transformations in Metal,” on April 9, 2024.
The Department warmly congratulates Jessie Cox, who successfully defended his DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Listening with the Unknown: Unforming the World with Slave Ears" on March 29, 2024.
The Department of Music announces the availability of two Core Lecturer positions in Music Humanities. Applicants must have completed all requirements, including deposit, for the Ph.D. or D.M.A degree from Columbia’s Department of Music between 07/01/21 - 06/30/24.
Audrey Amsellem was interviewed for a podcast series curated by Radio Papesse titled "What Do Sounds Want? Audio Essays on 'Life Chronicles of Dorothea Ïesj S.P.U.'"
The Department warmly congratulates Hannah Kendall, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Cutting Through and Resisting the Plantation Machine in Elaine Mitchener's SWEET TOOTH and the musical work shouting forever into the receiver" on March 26, 2024.
The Department warmly congratulates Dani Dobkin, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Ephemera as a Metaphore of Ceramics and Synthesis" on March 15, 2023.
The Department warmly congratulates Anya Wilkening, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), “Degrees of Separation: Intermusicality and Intertextuality in Medieval Monophonic Song,” on March 4, 2024.
Professor Magdalena Stern-Baczewska is a recipient of the 2023-2024 Faculty Visitorship at Reid Hall in Paris. The program is jointly supported by Columbia Global Centers Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
The Department warmly congratulates Demetrius Shahmehri, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), “Romanticism's Children: Nostalgia and Fantasy in Music from Schumann to Final Fantasy,” on February 27, 2024.
The Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University has announced the names of fourteen composers selected to receive 2023 Fromm commissions.
Undergraduate Sofia Jen Ouyang was selected for the 2025 DeGaetano Composition Institute.
Professor Mariusz Kozak won the 2023 Outstanding Publication Award, presented by the Society for Music Theory Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group.