The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that D.M.A. pianist Juan Carlos Fernández-Nieto will be making his debut at Carnegie Hall this coming Thursday, June 8th, 2017 at 7:30pm. He will be performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat Major, K. 271, “Jeunehomme” with the Chamber Orchestra of New York, under the baton of Music Director […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that D.M.A. candidate Sunyoung Kim will be presenting at The Voice Foundation’s 46th Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice. The symposium runs from May 31 – June 4, 2017, at the Philadelphia Westin. Sunyoung will be presenting “The Effect of Two Different Instructions on Subglottal Pressure, Sound […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that recent Music D.M.A. graduate Eva León will be performing at National Sawdust tomorrow – Wednesday, May 17th, 2017 – at 7pm. The program will take the audience on a musical journey across Spain, exploring its many traditions, cultures, and colors through some of the greatest Spanish […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that a newly composed opera, “The Summer King,” by alumnus Daniel Sonenberg made its world premier on April 29th, 2017 at The Pittsburgh Opera. Performances run through May 7th, with further performances scheduled for May 2018 at Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit. To see a recent feature […]
Gordon Dale has been hired as Visiting Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He recently defended his dissertation, “Music in Haredi Jewish Life: Liquid Modernity and the Negotiation of Boundaries in Greater New York.”
Peter Manuel will deliver the Robert Murrell Stevenson Annual Lecture at UCLA on May 11. Manuel will present material relating to his recent research on the dalit/”untouchable” musical movement in the Punjab, India. Shown here: Manuel with popular dalit singer Ginni Mahi, in Jalandhar this January.
Elaine Sandoval, currently on a Fulbright Fellowship conducting fieldwork in Venezuela on El Sistema’s “Alma llanera” program, recently published two articles in the Journal of Peace Education special issue on “Music and Peace Education,” Volume 13, Issue 3. The articles are entitled “Potential contributions of music education to peacebuilding: curricular concerns,” and “Music in peacebuilding: […]
Elaine Sandoval gave an invited lecture, “El Sistema: Around the World” for the Venezuelan Society of Musicology, on September 26th, 2016 at the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas. Emmy Williamson presented a paper “Reclaiming the Tarima and Remaking Spaces: Examining Women’s Leadership in the Son Jarocho Community of New York City” at the Fandango […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that the 2016 AMS/SMT Conference was an incredible success for our students, faculty, and alumni! Six GC students presented papers, one student participated in a panel discussion, GC faculty chaired six different paper panels, four faculty members presented papers, faculty members were represented five times on special […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that D.M.A. pianist Alexandra Joan will be performing in the Masterworks Series at Bargemusic on September 24th, 2016 at 8pm. Bargemusic is New York City’s famous floating concert hall, moored in Brooklyn, just under the Brooklyn Bridge. The program will include the following: Beethoven – 7 Variations […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that today, June 5th, 2016 at 4:00 PM PST the film My First Kiss and the People Involved will make its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival with a score composed by GC Flutist and Composition student Bonnie McAlvin. The soundtrack will also feature GC Music alumna […]
Two students in the ethnomusicology program have been awarded external field research fellowships for 2016-17. Brian Bond has been awarded dissertation-year fellowships from the Social Science Research Council and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies to research Sufi genres in India in the region of Kachchh. Brian’s research will focus on five devotional genres and […]
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