Congratulations to DMA violinist Samuel Andonian, who will be joining the Boston Symphony Orchestra! He is among the four new musician appointments announced by the BSO, effective this current season. For more on Samuel and the new BSO appointments, see article below: https://symphony.org/new-musicians-and-a-promotion-at-boston-symphony-orchestra/
Congratulations to Janhavi Phansalkar, who was awarded the Dr. Louise Lennihan Arts & Sciences Grant! The award is a part of the Graduate Center’s Futures Initiative research grants, in commitment to supporting graduate student research and advocating for greater equity and innovation in higher education. For more information on the 30 winners of the […]
Congratulations to three doctoral students from the Music department who have been awarded Graduate Center Dissertation Fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year: Rajeswari Ranganathan, Madison Schindele, and Joseph Vaz! They are among the 102 doctoral candidates who were awarded dissertation fellowships from the annual Graduate Center Dissertation Fellowship competition. Rajeswari Ranganathan (Ethnomusicology) Nāgasvaram Ensemble […]
Congratulations to Lindsey Williams (Ph.D. candidate in Musicology) on winning the Graduate Student Essay Prize in Global Early Modern Studies, for her essay entitled “Reimagining Rossane: Voices, Style, and Role in Scarlatti’s Il gran Tamerlano”! The Graduate Center’s program in Global Early Modern Studies awards the prize to an essay written on an early modern topic written by a […]
Congratulations to Prof. Emily Wilbourne, who has won a second prize for her book, Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence (Oxford University Press, 2024)! The Renaissance Society of America has awarded her book the 2025 Phyllis Goodheart Gordan Prize for the best book in Renaissance Studies. In addition, Prof. Amanda Wunder (Professor of Art History, […]
Ahead of the 67th GRAMMY Awards on February 2nd, 2025, Professor Emerita Tania León was announced as a 2025 Special Merit Award Honoree. Frankie Beverly, The Clash, Dr. Bobby Jones, Taj Mahal, Prince^, Roxanne Shante, and Frankie Valli were named the 2025 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award honorees, and the Trustees Awards went to Erroll […]
Ana Beatriz Mujica, musicology student writing her dissertation with Prof. Emily Wilbourne, has just had an article titled “French Song and the Strummed Guitar: A seventeenth-century Alfabeto Manuscript at the BNF” published in the French musicology journal Revue de Musicologie. Congratulations! For more information, please see link below: https://sfmusicologie.fr/derniere-livraison
Congratulations to ethnomusicology alumnus David Garcia, who was appointed Robin March Hanes Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill effective July 1, 2024. His research focuses on the music of the Americas with an emphasis on black music and Latin music of the United States and a theoretical focus […]
Congratulations to Prof. Emily Wilbourne, who was awarded the 2024 Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award from the American Musicological Society for her book Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence (Oxford University Press, 2023)! See link below for more details on Prof. Wilbourne’s book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/voice-slavery-and-race-in-seventeenth-century-florence-9780197646915?cc=us&lang=en&
Congratulations to Prof. Kofi Agawu, who was awarded a 2024 Wallace Berry Award of the Society for Music Theory for his book, On African Music (Oxford University Press, 2023)! See link below for more details on Prof. Agawu’s book, “On African Music”: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/on-african-music-9780197664063?cc=us&lang=en&
Congratulations to Prof. Joseph Straus, who was awarded a 2024 Pedagogy of Music Theory Award for his book, The Art of Post-Tonal Analysis: Thirty-three Graphic Analyses (Oxford University Press, 2022)! See the following link for more details on Prof. Straus’ book, “The Art of Post-Tonal Analysis: Thirty-three Graphic Analyses”: https://academic.oup.com/book/41565
From November 10-17, Prof. John Musto and Mark Campbell’s opera “Later the Same Evening” will be have a four-night run as a part of the 2024 NEC Festival. The festival honors the legacy of John Heiss with a weeklong series of performances, discussions, and more, and celebrates visionary American composers Charles Ives (1874–1954) and Ruth […]
