SMT Announces Post-1945 Music Analysis IG Publication Award, 2021
The Post-1945 Music Analysis IG 2021 Publication Award committee had a difficult choice this year. We received 23 submissions from 25 authors covering a diverse set of topics and musical styles. Our decision came down to those papers that most closely followed the stipulations set out in the call for papers, which were then assessed […]
Events of special interest to music theorists held at the CUNY Gradate Center
Events of special interest to music theorists held at the CUNY Gradate Center During the semester, the Music Department presents a number of formal and informal events, meetings, and guest lectures that are available to students of the Music Theory program at the CUNY Graduate Center. These events include: Theory Group meetings: informal gatherings where […]
Music Theory Student and Alumni Accomplishments
Recent Graduates Here is a list of (now former) students with newly minted Ph.Ds from the Music Theory program at the CUNY Graduate Center, followed by their current teaching position: Michèle Duguay, 2021. “Gendering the Virtual Space: Sonic Femininities and Masculinities in Contemporary Top 40 Music” (Indiana University). Simon Prosser, 2021. “A Schema-Theoretic […]
The Elebash Award
The Elebash Award About the Award: The Baisley Powell Elebash Fund Committee welcomes applications from doctoral students at the CUNY Graduate Center pursuing topics related to music in New York City (this is broadly defined as anywhere in the five boroughs or Greater NYC area). Topics must seriously engage the cultural, political, and/or social context […]
GC Professor Sylvia Kahan Publishes Chapter in Book!
GC Professor Sylvia Kahan (DMA, ’93) is happy to announce the publication of a book chapter, “Gabriel Fauré’s ‘Other’ Career in the Paris and London Music Salons,” in the newly-released Fauré Studies (Cambridge University Press). https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/faure-studies/CBA3E1F25CB100F5947A80290F872FC7 This entry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
Two GC Theory Alumni Offered Tenure-Track Positions!
Please join us in congratulating one recent and one soon-to-be alum on the following: (1) Dr. Noel Torres-Rivera, who completed his dissertation a few months ago, was offered a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC). (2) Michèle Dugay (who will defend her dissertation in July) was offered a tenure-track Assistant Professor […]
GC Student Fifi Zhang Performs D.M.A. Recital–Stream Online!
On Friday, May 21st at 1:00pm EST, second-year DMA pianist Fifi Zhang will present a solo recital of American, German, and Russian composers, livestreamed from Elebash Hall. The program begins with the blistering Caténaires by Elliott Carter followed by four hauntingly ethereal preludes by Ruth Crawford Seeger. It also includes Johannes Brahms’ six beloved Op. […]
GC Student Jeremy Kienbaum Performs D.M.A. Recital–Stream Online!
On Wednesday, May 19th at 1:00pm EDT, violist Jeremy Kienbaum (A violist of “eloquent strength” – The Well-Tempered Ear) will perform an eclectic program of works by Joan Tower, Benjamin Britten, Max Reger, and Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. in a livestream recital from Elebash Hall. Each composer brings their own artistic flair to the program, celebrating the […]
GC Student Julia Danitz Performs D.M.A. Recital–Stream Online!
On Wednesday May 12, 2021 at 1:00pm EST, violinist Julia Danitz will perform a grand program of works by Eugène Ysaÿe, J.S. Bach, Dai Fujikura, and Ludwig van Beethoven. The program features twelve movements total, all requiring a range of arduous expression from the instrument. Ysaÿe Sonata No. 4 (1924) is an hommàge to Fritz […]
Two Music Department Students Selected for GC Dissertation Showcase
Congratulations to Serena Wang (Adviser, Professor Anne Stone) and Emily Weiss (Adviser, Professor Jeffrey Taylor), who are among 10 students chosen through a competitive application process for this year’s Dissertation Showcase! Imagine summing up years of dissertation research and writing in a lively, three-minute public presentation. Ten students will do just that at The Graduate Center’s fourth annual “Inside The Graduate […]
GC Student Carrie Frey Performs D.M.A. Recital–Stream Online!
On Friday, April 23rd at 1:00pm EST, violist Carrie Frey will perform a set of works exploring the instrument’s contrapuntal and lyrical capabilities in a livestream recital from Elebash Hall. The program traces a lineage of string writing from J.P. von Westhoff’s Suite No. 1 in A minor, a precursor to Bach’s famous Partitas and Sonatas, to […]
GC Student Kirsten Jermé Performs D.M.A. Recital–Stream Online!
(photo by Ana Galizes) On Wednesday, April 7th at 1:00pm EST, cellist Kirsten Jermé will perform three solo cello suites spanning three centuries in a livestream recital from Elebash Hall. Blending elements of dance, theater, poeticism, lyricism and brilliance, these suites demonstrate the evolution of the genre as well as its indebtedness to J.S. Bach – […]
