The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to announce that D.M.A. student Imri Talgam won the 11th Orleans Piano Competition on March 15 in Orléans, France, including prizes totaling 15,000 euros. The competition is devoted to repertoire from 1900 to the present. He received first prize (the Prix Blanche Selva) and the medal of the […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that on Friday, February 28th GC students and alumni Sarah Carrier, Melissa Keeling, Bonnie McAlvin, Roberta Michel and Jonathan Singer will be hosting an exciting tribute concert event at the Firehouse Space in Brooklyn, NY, honoring composer and GC faculty member Robert Dick. Robert has been a […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share the rave review given to D.M.A. pianist Wayne Weng for his recent performance with the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra! Wayne performed Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, accompanied by an innovative video component that allowed cameras to capture and display close-up views of his hands as he performed. […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to announce that DMA soprano Hsin-Mei Chang will be singing in Carnegie Hall’s upcoming master class with celebrated mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig. The master class will take place this coming Wednesday, January 15th at 7:30pm in Zankel Hall. The master class is part of Marilyn Horne’s celebration of the art of song series […]
The CUNY Graduate Center is pleased to announce that DMA student and pianist Mirna Lekić will be presenting her research on Claude Debussy’s ballet La Boîte à joujoux at the Fifty-Sixth National College Music Society Conference, to be held at the end of this month in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The conference is in collaboration with the Association for Technology in […]
The CUNY Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to announce the recent success and upcoming Carnegie Hall debut of DMA student and pianist Javor Bračić. Javor is the winner of the NYCA’s 2012 Carnegie Debut Recital Audition, and will make his debut in the Carnegie Weill Recital Hall on October 22nd, 2013. The program includes an […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that DMA Pianists Ran Dank and Soyeon Kate Lee were praised in the New York Times by music critic Anthony Tommasini for their performance this past Tuesday night at Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The program included a stunning line up of 4 hand […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to announce that one of our DMA Pianists, William McNally, will be presenting a paper titled “Transatlantic Voyages of Ragtime” at the Society for American Music 2014 Conference in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Of the 313 proposals received for the conference, approximately 47% were accepted, with Mr. McNally’s being one of […]
GC DMA student violinist Caroline Chin will be performing in the opening concert of the 2013 Institute & Festival for Contemporary Music (IFCP) at Mannes College The New School, on Sunday, June 23rd, 2013! As stated by the IFCP: “Committed to deepening performers’ and audiences understanding of avant garde music from the 20th and 21st […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that GC DMA student and pianist Soyeon Kate Lee was specifically mentioned for an outstanding performance with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Monday evening (May 21st, 2013) in a New York Times review of their final concert of the 2012-2013 season! In a review titled […]
Wayne Weng, a D.M.A. student, is an accomplished pianist currently studying with Ursula Oppens. In early March, his performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major with the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra won the seventh Iowa Piano Competition in a contest with two other gifted musicians, who also played works by Beethoven. The Sioux […]
A “spellbinding solo meditation that hovered between Arabic cantillation and expanded Western tonality, with hints of jazz” and the “most memorable moment of the Divan’s New York residency,” wrote the New Yorker music critic Alex Ross, of Kinan Azmeh’s “Prayer: A Tribute to Edward Said,” performed at a January 29 chamber concert, one of several […]
