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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 […]

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GC Graduate’s Arrangement Performed on ESPN

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 […]

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GC Alum Soyeon Kate Lee Wins Teaching Award

Congratulations to GC Alum Soyeon Kate Lee for winning the 2021 Mrs. AB Dolly Cohen Award for Excellence in Teaching from the University of Cincinnati! Dr. Lee is an associate professor of piano at the university’s College-Conservatory of Music. For more information: https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2021/04/faculty-awards-2021–soyeon-kate-lee.html?fbclid=IwAR38Ktw2uI3akXwymrnHFNnk7GyuO1ng1PpIHuV04WPWOwzJqV8YHDmTkKA

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Ellie Hisama (Ph.D. ’96, Music Theory) Breaks Barriers as Incoming Dean of University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music

Ellie Hisama (Credit: Hana Hisama-Vishio) This summer Ellie Hisama (Ph.D. ’96, Music) is planning a major move — after close to three decades in New York City, she is leaving to assume her new role as dean of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music. Hisama was a professor at The Graduate Center and at Brooklyn College, […]

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New Album Released by GC Alum

  Composer Thomas Cabaniss and pianist Michael Shinn (D.M.A, ’10) announce the release of their second collaborative album, Sketches of Venasque: Six Pieces for Piano, now available digitally. Recorded at Schroeder Hall at the Green Music Center at Sonoma State University in 2019, Sketches of Venasque is a 6-movement set of miniatures for solo piano […]

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GC Alum Harry Stafylakis Co-Curates Winnipeg New Music Festival

A GC alum, composer Harry Stafylakis is in his 5th season as Composer-in-Residence of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and Co-Curator of its annual Winnipeg New Music Festival. One of Winnipeg’s most celebrated musical events, the 30th Winnipeg New Music Festival is back January 23, 26 & 29, 2021. This year the festival moves online to […]

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GC Alum Dave Pearson Publishes Book

  Congratulations to music alumnus David Pearson (musicology, 2017) on the publication of his book Rebel Music in the Triumphant Empire:  Punk Rock in the 1990s United States, by Oxford University Press.  The book situates 1990s punk in the politics of the era, drawing together information from numerous zines, interviews with key participants in the scene, […]

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