Angelina Tallaj Joins Music Faculty at Fordham University
GC ethnomusicology graduate Angelina Tallaj, currently assistant professor at Guttman College, has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Music at Fordham University (Bronx). This entry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
Lynne Stillings Awarded AAUW American Fellowship
Ethnomusicology student Lynne Stillings has been awarded an AAUW American Fellowship for 2020-2021 to support completion of her dissertation, “Performing Empowerment: Children’s Rights and Musical Participation in Senegal.” Lynne returned in December from a year’s field research in Dakar, supported by a Fulbright-Hays dissertation fellowship. This entry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 […]
Veronica da Rosa Guimaraes Wins Mario Capelloni Dissertation Fellowship
The music department is proud to announce musicology student Veronica da Rosa Guimaraes as the winner of the Mario Capelloni Dissertation Fellowship for her work “Reconsidering the Genesis of the Troubadours through New Methodological Approaches.” The fellowship carries a cash prize of $25,000. Congratulations to Veronica for her outstanding work. This entry is licensed under a […]
Tina Frühauf Releases New Book
The Graduate Center, CUNY faculty member Tina Frühauf’s latest book, Postmodernity’s Musical Pasts, has just been released. Below is a description of the book from Boydell & Brewer Publishers: “Postmodernity’s Musical Pasts covers topics from classical to popular and neo-traditional musics to concerns of the disciplines of musicology. Such varied topics mirror the eclectic and diverse […]
Magdalena Filipczak Makes Carnegie Hall Debut
The Graduate Center, CUNY DMA candidate in performance and Polish violinist Magdalena Filipczak makes her Carnegie Hall Debut on March 18th at 8PM in a program inspired by the phantasy motive, including master Phantasies by Schubert and Schönberg. Filipczak also showcases selections from her debut Album Essence of Violin, featuring works by Saint-Saëns, Britten, Lutosławski, […]
Han Chen Releases Third Album
Pianist Han Chen may only be two years into his D.M.A. at The Graduate Center, but he’s already a celebrated performer and seasoned veteran in the recording studio. He released his debut album — of Liszt’s operatic translations — in 2016, and will follow it Jan. 24 with an album of Anton Rubinstein’s sonatas. Not one to rest on his laurels, Chan has already […]
Ben Bierman Releases Textbook and CD
Chair of the Art and Music Department at John Jay College, GC music faculty member, and GC alumnus Ben Bierman has had a prolific 2019. This past spring semester, Dr. Bierman released both an Oxford University Press book entitled Listening to Jazz, 2e and a CD of his original compositions, entitled Some Takes On the […]
David Grubbs Releases “Simultaneous Soloists”
Anthony McCall and David Grubbs, Simultaneous Soloists (Pioneer Works Press) Simultaneous Soloists is an artist’s book emerging from Anthony McCall’s exhibition Solid Light Works and the accompanying performance series Four Simultaneous Soloists, organized by David Grubbs. It documents these ephemeral events through multiple means: an extensive conversation between McCall and Grubbs detailing a decade of […]
GC Faculty Speak at Eastman’s Abbey Road Conference
Prof. Mark Spicer and Prof. Mark Anson-Cartwright gave talks, the former as a keynote speaker, at the symposium Come Together: Fifty Years of Abbey Road, held at the Eastman School of Music the weekend of September 27–29, 2019 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ landmark album. The title of Prof. […]
American Record Guide Reviews Bowers Fader Duo’s Debut CD
Created in 2009, The Bowers-Fader Voice and Guitar Duo is Jessica Bowers, mezzo-soprano, and Oren Fader, guitar faculty at The Graduate Center, CUNY, whose mission is to promote New American Art Songs for mezzo and guitar, through commissions, performances, and recordings. Their debut CD, “Between Us All”, was recently reviewed by the American Record Guide: […]
Tina Frühauf Receives DAAD Visiting Professorship
Tina Frühauf received a DAAD Visiting Professorship to teach at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich in the summer semester of 2019. Together with local faculty, she organized the symposium “Jewish Music in Southern Germany—History, Exile, Continuance,” held on 12-13 July 2019 at the Musikwissenschaftliches Institut. This entry is licensed under a Creative […]
Michèle Duguay Wins Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award
Congratulations to Michèle Duguay, PhD candidate in Music Theory, on receiving the Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award for her conference paper “A Model for Measuring Physical Balance in Contemporary Piano Works,” delivered at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Music Theory Society of New York State! The award comes with the guarantee of publication in […]
