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&
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&
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
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 […]
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
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
A new article, “Assembling Hyperpop: Genre Formation on Wikipedia,” co-authored by ethnomusicology students Romulo Moraes and Julia Santoli, DMA student Sophie Delphis, and ethnomusicology faculty Eliot Bates, was recently published in the journal Cultural Sociology. This was a student-led research project that began in Prof. Bates’ class “Music in/on the Internet.” See link below for […]
DMA violinist Stephanie Zyzak will perform at the Morning Chamber Music Series at the Eastman School of Music as a guest artist on Saturday, September 28, 2024 at 11:30am at Hatch Recital Hall. Congratulations! More information on Stephanie and event details below: Praised for her sensitive musicianship and heartfelt playing, violinist Stephanie Zyzak is quickly gaining […]
Anaar Desai-Stephens, Assistant Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology), joins the Graduate Center from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester where she was an assistant professor of ethnomusicology while holding affiliations with the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies and the Visual and Cultural Studies programs. Her work focuses on popular music, media […]
