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. […]
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, […]
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”!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Congratulations to Dr. Nicolas Namoradze (D.M.A. ’20), who has been featured in The New York Times! In the February 10, 2026 article, “What Happens in a Performer’s Brain While Playing Music?” Nicolas has been featured for his groundbreaking research tying together music and neuroscience, utilizing the Glass Brain technology to map the effects of music […]
