Congratulations to recent DMA alumnus and clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson, whose album Forgotten Sounds (the world-premiere recording of Loeffler’s Octet) has been nominated for the Gramophone Classical Music Award! The Gramophone Classical Music Award is one of the highest honors in the classical recording industry, and Forgotten Sounds shares the chamber music category shortlist with five […]
Congratulations to pianist and Graduate Center alumnus Nicolas Namoradze on his residency at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland this summer! As part of his residency he will present Neuropiano, a multidisciplinary collaboration involving several research teams that explores a pianist’s brain activity during performance, using Neuroscape’s extraordinary Glass Brain technology. The Neurorecital, a live-concert version […]
Pianist Quynh Nguyen (DMA ’09), currently a piano professor at Hunter College and recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, talks about her musical upbringing and teaching at Hunter, as well as her teaching philosophy in a new CUNY/Hunter College video feature. See video here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIyjRaShPOC/
Congratulations to ethnomusicology alumnus David Garcia, who was appointed Robin March Hanes Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill effective July 1, 2024. His research focuses on the music of the Americas with an emphasis on black music and Latin music of the United States and a theoretical focus […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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/
Philip Stoecker (CUNY 2003) received the Outstanding Multi-Author Collection Award for co-editing (with Edward Venn) the book Adès Studies (Cambridge: CUP, 2021). Among other essays, this book features the article “Sonic Allegory in Adès’s The Exterminating Angel” by CUNY professor Yayoi Uno Everett.
Noriko Manabe (CUNY 2009) received the SMT 2022 Outstanding Publication Award for her article “We gon’ be alright? The ambiguities of Kendrick Lamar’s protest anthem,” Music Theory Online, 25(1).
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
NYU Percussion Ensemble on ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown This weekend’s broadcast of Sunday NFL Countdown on ESPN will feature a performance of NYU Percussion faculty member Javier Diaz’s arrangement of “In the Air Tonight” by the NYU Percussion Ensemble, directed by Jonathan Haas. On the 40th anniversary of the release of the Phil Collins song, NFL players from across the […]
