Musicologist and current PhD student Max Keller has had an essay published in The New York Times (in the print edition on June 22), titled “Does it Matter how a Cello is Held? It’s a Centuries-Old Debate.” Congratulations! See link below to read Max’s article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/arts/music/cello-endpins-debate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Pk8.v2GD.iZPQfX9qYhA4&smid=url-share
Please click here to see the dates, sign-up deadlines, and further information regarding the 2025-2026 Examination Schedule (First Exam, Second Exam, Language Exam, and Musicianship Exam). Please note that the most of these exams have sign-up deadlines, which must be observed so that exams can be prepared in advance. Thank you for your cooperation with these […]
Prof. Anaar Desai-Stephens, who joined the Graduate Center faculty this year, has been featured by the Graduate Center in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month, in recognition of scholars who are leading change in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Prof. Desai-Stephens, a member of the ethnomusicology faculty, focuses her research on popular music, media […]
The Baisley Powell Elebash Fund Committee welcomes applications from Music Department doctoral students pursuing research (including practice-based research such as performances). While all quality research proposals will be considered, priority is to be given to research pertaining to New York City (broadly defined as anywhere in the five boroughs or Greater NYC area) that seriously […]
Pianist Quynh Nguyen (DMA ’09), currently a piano professor at Hunter College and recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, talks about her musical upbringing and teaching at Hunter, as well as her teaching philosophy in a new CUNY/Hunter College video feature. See video here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIyjRaShPOC/
Join Professor Emily Wilbourne at New York University on April 10th, 2025 at 7pm for the 2025 AMS/NYU Lecture! In this lecture, Prof. Wilbourne will draw on her recent award-winning book, Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence (Oxford, 2023). Free admission, but registration is required. Please click here to see the event flyer with […]
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 […]
