Alice Xue will present her essay “The Nostalgic Modernists: Tradition and Pop in Por Por Music of Accra, Ghana” at the Society of Music Theory’s (SMT) 2022 Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 12. This is Alice’s first presentation ever at a national conference! Alice hopes that she does well and makes her advisor professor Kofi […]
Ana Beatriz Mujica, PhD candidate in musicology at the Graduate Center, will be presenting a paper at the International Conference “Topics in Hispanic music: 18th-21st centuries” taking place at the University of Valladolid (Spain) from Oct. 20 to Oct. 22. The conference participants will discuss the application of Topic Theory to Spanish and Latin American […]
The Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology is by far the most important conference in the field, and this year it will be held jointly with the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory, so it should be an even bigger event. This will be my first time going to SEM in […]
Carlos, a PhD Candidate in the Ethnomusicology Program, will present “After All, Music is the Cherry on Top:” Amateur Radicalism and Affective Strategies of Son Jarocho Colectivos in Southern Veracruz” at the 2022 Society for Ethnomusicology conference in New Orleans. Carlos’s ethnographic research investigates how young activists in Veracruz, Mexico, use the collective music-making features […]
Rebecca Moranis was chosen to participate in a graduate student workshop at the Society for Music Theory annual meeting in November 2022 in New Orleans. The workshop is led by Professor Nancy Rogers (Florida State University) and is titled “Intersections of Music Cognition and Music Theory Pedagogy.” The goal of this workshop is to use […]
Congratulations are in order to DMA candidate Graeme Steele Johnson who has recently been named the new clarinetist of the ensemble. WindSync is one of very few ensembles of its kind which is full-time and has an international touring schedule. Congratulations Graeme! More info on the ensemble can be found here: https://www.windsync.org
Augustina Checa completed her dissertation in record time and is now on the tenure track as an assistant professor of Music, Multimedia, Theatre and Dance Department at Lehman College. Learn more about her inspiring story here: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/alum-joins-tenure-track-lehman-after-writing-her-dissertation-record-time
The music department is proud to announce that 2009 DMA alum Quynh Nguyen will be performing as piano soloist in a piano concerto by Paul Chiara with the Vietnamese National Symphony Orchestra at the Hanoi Opera House on October 7, celebrating the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the US and Vietnam. Ms. Nguyen, a […]
On Sunday, September 18, John Musto is to be featured as soloist with Western New York Chamber Orchestra in a performance of his Second Piano Concerto. The performance opens WNYCO’s 2022-2023 season. More info here: https://www.wnychamberorchestra.com/2022-2023-season.html
The music department is pleased and proud to announce that 2018 alum Soyeon Kate Lee has been appointed to the piano faculty at the Juilliard School. During her time in the program here, Ms. Lee studied with Ursula Oppens and Richard Goode. She had previously been on the faculty of Cincinnati College Conservatory of music […]
Born in Havana, Cuba, Tania León is highly regarded as a composer, conductor, educator, and advisor to arts organizations. Her orchestral work Stride, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Recent premieres include works for Los Angeles Philharmonic, Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, NDR Symphony Orchestra, Grossman Ensemble, International […]
