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Professor Emerita Tania León announced as a 2025 Special Merit Award Honoree ahead of the 67th GRAMMY Awards

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 […]

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Musicology student Ana Beatriz Mujica published in French musicology journal Revue de Musicologie

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

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Ethnomusicology alumnus David Garcia appointed Robin March Hanes Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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 […]

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Prof. Emily Wilbourne awarded the 2024 Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award from the American Musicological Society

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&

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Prof. Kofi Agawu awarded a 2024 Wallace Berry Award of the Society for Music Theory for his book, “On African Music”

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& 

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Prof. Joseph Straus awarded a 2024 Pedagogy of Music Theory Award for his book, “The Art of Post-Tonal Analysis: Thirty-three Graphic Analyses”

  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 

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Prof. John Musto and Mark Campbell’s opera “Later the Same Evening” to be featured in a four-night run at the 2024 NEC Festival

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 […]

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Alumnus Michael Shinn (DMA) Named Executive Director of Boston Conservatory at Berklee

  Congratulations to alumnus Michael Shinn (DMA) who has recently been named executive director of Boston Conservatory at Berklee! See link below to read more about Shinn’s leadership and contributions to Boston Conservatory at Berklee: https://www.4rfv.com/G58TB7RJ4F6X/michael-shinn-named-executive-director-of-boston-conservatory-at-berklee.htm

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GC music department members Prof. Doug Geers and Composition PhD student Tobias Fandel to be featured at the Art Science Connect Symposium

On Tuesday, October 29th and Wednesday, October 30th, the CUNY Graduate Center will be hosting the Art Science Connect Symposium “How AI is Changing Art and the Humanities, featuring GC music department members Prof. Doug Geers and Composition PhD student Tobias Fandel.   Tobias Fandel will present on the topic of Photography and AI Manipulation […]

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DMA cellist Aaron Wolff named a prize winner of the 2024 Naumburg International Cello Competition

Congratulations to DMA cellist Aaron Wolff, who was named a prize winner of the 2024 Naumburg International Cello Competition!     Established in 1926 by Walter Wehle Naumburg, the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation and its competitions support young classical musicians to launch their professional career. The Naumburg Foundation’s competition cycles through various instruments every year. […]

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Kristin Leitterman (DMA 2017) wins second place for the 2024 American Prize in Instrumental Performance

  Congratulations to oboist Kristin Leitterman (DMA 2017), who was a named the second-place winner of the 2024 American Prize in Instrumental Performance!    See below for more details about Dr. Leitterman, as well as The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts: Dr. Kristin Leitterman, as a solo artist of oboe and voice, defies […]

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Professor Tania León featured by the Graduate Center for Hispanic Heritage Month

Distinguished Professor Emerita and Pulitzer Prize winner Tania León was featured by the Graduate Center highlighting scholars of Hispanic and Latino heritage for Hispanic Heritage Month!  Honoring the exceptional contributions of the Graduate Center’s Hispanic and Latino scholars across many disciplines, Prof. León’s artistry and influence as a contemporary classical composer and teacher has continued […]

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