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 Distinguished Professor Emerita Tania León, who was awarded the William Schuman Award of Columbia University School of the Arts last night! In celebration of this honor, the William Schuman Award Concert was held at the Miller Theatre at Columbia University, showcasing the vitality and depth of León’s works and also featuring pianist Han […]
Congratulations to Maurice Restrepo (Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology) on being awarded the 2025 Hewitt Pantaleoni Prize! Maurice received the award for his paper titled, “Vibing and Hegemonic Masculinities in Jazz,” which was presented at the 2025 Joint Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (MACSEM) and the Greater New York Chapter of the […]
Congratulations to Julio E. Quiñones Santiago (Ph.D. in Composition) who has been awarded the prestigious Crossing Latinidades Fellowship for 2025-2026, alongside Laura Suárez Rodríguez (Ph.D. in Art History)! The fellowships follow their participation in the highly selective Crossing Latinidades Summer Institute in Latino/a/x Humanities Methodologies and Theories, held from June 20–29 at the University of […]
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 […]
Rebecca Moranis was awarded the 2025 Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award by the Music Theory Society of New York State (MTSNYS) for her paper “An Analysis of Joni Mitchell’s Vocal Evolution.” Rebecca presented this paper this past Spring at both the MTSNYS conference and at the Timbre and Orchestration in Popular Song (TOPS) conference, and she […]
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Madison Schindele (musicology), who has been named one of three CUNY Graduate Center doctoral students awarded Fulbright research fellowships for the 2025- 2026 academic year! She has been selected alongside Ph.D. students Wesley Doucette (French) and Cortney Berg (Art History) from the GC as recipients of the prestigious award, funded by […]
Musicologist and current PhD student Max Keller has had an essay published in The New York Times (in the print edition on June 22), titled “Does it Matter how a Cello is Held? It’s a Centuries-Old Debate.” Congratulations! See link below to read Max’s article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/arts/music/cello-endpins-debate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Pk8.v2GD.iZPQfX9qYhA4&smid=url-share
Prof. Anaar Desai-Stephens, who joined the Graduate Center faculty this year, has been featured by the Graduate Center in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month, in recognition of scholars who are leading change in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Prof. Desai-Stephens, a member of the ethnomusicology faculty, focuses her research on popular music, media […]
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/
Join Professor Emily Wilbourne at New York University on April 10th, 2025 at 7pm for the 2025 AMS/NYU Lecture! In this lecture, Prof. Wilbourne will draw on her recent award-winning book, Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence (Oxford, 2023). Free admission, but registration is required. Please click here to see the event flyer with […]
Congratulations to DMA violinist Samuel Andonian, who will be joining the Boston Symphony Orchestra! He is among the four new musician appointments announced by the BSO, effective this current season. For more on Samuel and the new BSO appointments, see article below: https://symphony.org/new-musicians-and-a-promotion-at-boston-symphony-orchestra/
