News Archive
Described as a conductor of “great intensity, without distancing, maneuvering, without indifference” (Neue Muzikzeitung - Leipzig) Zimbabwean-born conductor Vimbayi Kaziboni is the recipient of the 2024 Alice M. Ditson Fund Conductor’s Award. He has received $5,000 and a citation from Columbia’s President Minouche Shafik. Widely sought-after for his depth of approach, interpretive imagination, and expressivity, as well as his innovative and thoughtful curation, Kaziboni has led many critically lauded performances with orchestras across the globe, performing at some of the most prestigious concert halls in the world, including Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Hall, Royal Concertgebouw, Berlin Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie, Philharmonie de Paris, Royal Festival Hall & Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre, and at Lincoln Center.
One of Haas’s former students reflects on his time with a teacher who had lessons to offer in music, doubt and influence.
Professor George Lewis was profiled in The New Yorker by writer Alex Ross. The profile was published in the print edition of the January 15, 2024 issue.
Russell O'Rourke (Lecturer in Music, GSAS '20) has published his article "Armida on the Beach: A Cinquecento Rhetorical Model of the Emotions and Its Musical Reception" in the "Journal of the American Musicological Society," 76 no. 3 (Fall 2023).
MUSI9403GR Advanced Ethnomusicology Seminar
The relationship between global climate change and the central role of the ocean in shaping global climate conditions frames the ways in which this seminar explores notions of more-than-human musicalities in oceanic life.
Professor Susan Boynton was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, an honor which recognizes major long-term scholarly achievement within the field of Medieval Studies.
Professors Benjamin Steege (Music) and Jane Gaines (Film) present a new course "Music, Sound, and Image Theory."
This series of profiles highlight valued student employees from across the Libraries, including Callum John Blackmore, a processing archivist at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The Libraries are the largest employer of students on campus. We couldn’t serve our users without them!
https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/spotlights/2023/12/05/student-employee-pr...
Professor Giuseppe Gerbino's new course Opera in Venice is offered by the Columbia Summer in Venice Global Program. This program offers the opportunity to immerse yourself in the medieval and modern city of Venice, located at the crossroads of east and west and miraculously built on water. This six week summer program, taught on site, offers you the opportunity to choose from a menu of courses in Italian language, Venetian art history and conservation, music, and culture. The academic program is supplemented with a rich cultural activities including group dinners, field trips, museum outings, bike rides, and Aperitivo Italiano; a very popular Italian Conversation outing for non-speakers and advanced students alike.
Dr. Scott Gleason publishes article in Perspectives of New Music.
The Department warmly congratulates Jonathan Ligrani, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Historical Musicology), “Manuscript Culture and Patrician Identity in the Florentine Madrigal,” on December 11, 2023.
The Department warmly congratulates Kyle DeCoste, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Ethnomusicology), “Imagining Innocence: Black Popular Music and the Poetics of Childhood,” on December 11, 2023.
DMA candidate Cem Güven is one of five composers whose works have been nominated for the Gaudeamus Award 2024, the annual incentive prize for composers under 35.
The Department warmly congratulates Makulumy Alexander-Hills, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Music Theory), “Engaging with Musical Theater Practitioners' Vernacular Musical Knowledge as Music-Theoretical Practice,” on November 16, 2023.
The Department warmly congratulates Louis Goldford, who successfully defended his DMA dissertation in Music Composition, titled "Emergence in the Music of Pierluigi Billone and Georges Aperghis" on November 15, 2023.