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
Author Archive | Joseph Vaz (he/him/his)
Peter Clark appointed to the New Zealand String Quartet
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
Nicolas Namoradze Appears in La Scena Musicale, Le Devoir and more
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 […]
Professor Kofi Agawu Awarded by the IMS
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
Professor William Rothstein’s Award
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
Angélica Negrón Feature
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!
Professor Ursula Oppens Featured in the Times
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!
Professor Joseph Straus’s new podcast
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/.
New SMT-V Article featuring GC authors!
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 […]
Upcoming premiere of Toccata by Cynthia Lee Wong (Ph.D., 2016)
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/
Han Chen’s Ligeti album recognized by the New Yorker
Graduate Center pianist Han Chen’s recent album of Ligeti piano music was among The New Yorker’s Notable Classical Recordings of 2023, handpicked by Alex Ross. Congratulations!
Han Chen appears in the New Yorker, New York Times, and more
GC pianist Han Chen has been making headlines with his recent “Infinite Staircase” concert at the National Sawdust on September 24. Some reviews below: The New Yorker – “The Taiwanese pianist Han Chen, a noted interpreter of the Ligeti Etudes and other modernist repertory, has made a blistering album of [Liszt’s] opera transcriptions.” – Alex […]
