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Musicologist Max Keller’s Essay Featured in Conjunction with Met Museum’s Exhibit “Musical Bodies”

Congratulations to musicologist and Ph.D candidate Max Keller, whose essay “My Gender is a Cello” has been featured in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibit, “Musical Bodies”! To read Max’s essay, please see link below: https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/my-gender-is-a-cello?promocode=&utm_campaign=2026_0724_Met_Perspectives&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Museum For more information on the Met Museum’s exhibit, “Musical Bodies” (running through September 27, 2026): https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/musical-bodies […]

Yoshi Weinberg (DMA, flute) Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for 2026-2027

DMA Performance and Research Highlights

Congratulations to DMA flutist Yoshi Weinberg on receiving a Fulbright Fellowship to Austria for the 2026-2027 academic year! Yoshi will pursue contemporary music studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz to work with members of the Klangforum Wien ensemble, and to study the compositions of Julius Eastman, a queer Black composer. […]

Alumna Alice Xue (Ph.D. in Music Theory, ’25) Featured in GC News for Landing Full-Time Faculty Position at Peabody Conservatory

Alumni News, Music Theory Research Highlights

Congratulations to GC alumna Alice Xue (Ph.D. in Music Theory, ’25) on securing a position as assistant professor of music theory and ear training at Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University! Alice has been featured in the GC news on landing a job in a challenging academic job market, advice she has for current students, […]

Professor Agustina Checa wins the R. Serge Denisoff Award

Ethnomusicology Research Highlights

Congratulations to Professor Agustina Checa, on winning the R. Serge Denisoff Award for the best article published in the journal Popular Music and Society for her article, “Safer Covachas—Preserving Digital Music in Cassettes: Grassroots Archiving Practices of Independent Record Labels in Contemporary Argentina”!

Han Chen (DMA, piano) featured for AAPI Heritage Month

DMA Performance and Research Highlights

Congratulations to DMA candidate, pianist Han Chen, who has been among those featured in the Graduate Center news for AAPI Heritage Month! In November 2025, Han earned a Grammy nomination for his recording of Florence Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement in d minor with the Malmö Opera Orchestra. For the full article on the […]

Clare Monfredo (DMA, cello) selected to present at GC Dissertation Showcase

DMA Performance and Research Highlights, Upcoming Event

Congratulations to DMA cellist Clare Monfredo, who has been selected as one of twelve students to present at the Graduate Center’s 2026 Dissertation Showcase! Selected doctoral candidates across various fields of study will make short presentations of three minutes each, describing their dissertations in front of the public and a panel of judges in a […]

Rebecca Moranis (Ph.D. candidate in Music Theory) featured in GC News

Music Theory Research Highlights

Congratulations to Rebecca Moranis (Ph.D. candidate in Music Theory) won has been featured in the Graduate Center news! Rebecca has been featured for her research on Joni Mitchell’s vocal evolution reflecting beyond the singer’s age and lifestyle, and the research has gone on to win two awards for her presentation “An Analysis of Joni […]

Dissertation Award Fellowship Winners and Early Research Award Winners for 2026-2027

Scholarships and Fellowships

Congratulations to the following students from the Graduate Center Music Department who have won Dissertation Fellowships/Early Research Awards for the 2026-2027 academic year! Dissertation Fellowship Winners Nicholas Tran, composition Kelsey Milian, ethnomusicology Diana Maron Ignaczak, musicology Early Research Award Winners Jon De Lucia, Musicology Tracking the Early Years of Composer William O. Smith Maurice […]

“Voicing Innocence” Conference at the Graduate Center (April 7-8, 2026)

Conferences, Colloquiums, & More

On April 7th-8th, 2026, the “Voicing Innocence: Trauma, Memory, and Contemporary Opera in the Work of Kaija Saariaho” Conference will be held at the Graduate Center. Through performances, lectures, and panel discussions, the conference will focus on how trauma, memory, and accountability are presented through music and in opera. Prior to the conference, on April […]

Alumnus Stephen Spencer (2024, Music Theory and Composition) Featured in The New Yorker

Alumni News, Composition and Research Highlights, Music Theory Research Highlights

Image Credit: Fazenda, João, Illustration of Stephen Spencer, The New Yorker, March 2, 2026, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/09/meet-the-dad-making-music-from-toddler-twaddle Congratulations to GC alumnus Stephen Spencer (2024, Music Theory and Composition) who was featured in the March issue of The New Yorker in an article entitled “Meet the Dad Making Music from Toddler Twaddle”! This article discusses […]

Professors Tania León and Suzanne Farrin’s Commissions to be Performed by NY Phil on March 12-17

Composition and Research Highlights, Concerts & Events Outside of the GC

Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Emerita Tania León and Professor Suzanne Farrin, who have each been commissioned to orchestrate a variation of Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated to be performed by the New York Philharmonic (led by Gustavo Dudamel) on March 12, 13, 14 and 17, as part of “US at 250” to mark […]

Nicholas Tran (Ph.D. candidate in Composition) Named Among Winners of the GC 2025-2026 Mentoring and Teaching Awards

Composition and Research Highlights

Congratulations to Nicholas Tran (Ph.D. candidate in Composition) who has been named among the winners of the Graduate Center’s 2025-2026 Mentoring and Teaching Awards! Since 2022, Nicholas has taught music theory and music appreciation to undergraduate students at Hunter College, Lehman College, and Queens College, working primarily with non-majors and early-stage music students. To read […]

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