A New York Times feature just appeared online about Gastr del Sol, a group that Professor David Grubbs formed in 1992 and that was active until 1998. Gastr del Sol is having a boxed set of archival recordings (including the recent find of a recording of their final concert from 1997 in the Montreal […]
DMA clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson’s research on and reconstruction of Charles Martin Loeffler’s octet was recently featured in this extensive profile in the Washington Post! Congratulations to Graeme. The New York premiere of this work will take place at the Morgan Library & Museum on May 23.
Prof. David Grubbs was honored with a 2024-25 Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin. Congratulations to Professor Grubbs! The 2024-25 Berlin Prize Fellows
Congratulations to Peter Clark, CUNY Graduate Center DMA violinist, who has been named to the New Zealand String Quartet, the country’s leading chamber ensemble! See below for more details. https://www.nzsq.org.nz/post/the-new-zealand-string-quartet-farewells-monique-lapins-welcomes-violinist-peter-clark
Graduate Center alumnus Nicolas Namoradze (DMA Performance) has been making headlines with international performances in the last month. Some reviews before: Prizewinner to Pantheon The recorded rendition of the Brahms concerto with the BFO was selected by medici.tv as one of the 9 all-time top performances of former piano competition winners, in a lineup called […]
Prof. Kofi Agawu was honored with the 2023 the Guido Adler Prize by the International Musicological Society. Congratulations to Professor Agawu! https://www.musicology.org/awards-and-programs/ims-gap/95-awards-programs/309-ims-gap2023
Prof. William Rothstein was honored with the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thompson Special Recognition Award for his book, The Musical Language of Italian Opera, 1813-1859, published by Oxford University Press. Congratulations to Professor Rothstein! https://www.ascap.com/press/2023/10/10-31-taylor-thomson-awards
Former Graduate Center composer Angélica Negrón’s Merkin Hall concert in January was covered on the Graduate Center’s website, found at this link: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/music-bloom-composer-angelica-negron-makes-lush-songs-flowers-and-fruit Congratulations to Angélica on a wonderful concert with many premieres!
CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College Distinguished Professor Ursula Oppens was recently featured by the New York Times, in association with her 80th birthday celebration concert at Merkin Hall on Saturday, February 3. Congratulations to Professor Oppens!
Prof. Joseph Straus has just released the podcast, Twenty Stravinsky Analyses! https://open.spotify.com/show/0kLhnp4GA2qJ5YX9lgMYcL Each episode digs deeply into a short passage from a Stravinsky work, from Petrushka to Requiem Canticles. The first episode is also available at SMT-Pod https://smt-pod.org/.
Three members of the Graduate Center Music Department community—Poundie Burstein (faculty), Quynh Nguyen (alumna), and Jennifer Roderer (DMA student)—jointly authored the video-article “The Best Laid Plans . . . and Others: An 18th-Century Compositional Outline,” SMT-V 10.1, available at https://www.smt-v.org. This 10-minute video-article examines issues surrounding the use of models in music analysis, using an analysis from the […]
The Florida premiere of Cynthia Lee Wong (Composition Ph.D., 2016)’s Toccata (2023), dedicated to Samuel Adler, will be performed by pianist Sookkyung Cho at the University of Central Florida on January 28. Congratulations! https://events.ucf.edu/event/3031529/guest-artist-recital-sookkyung-cho-piano/
