Congratulations to Peter Clark, CUNY Graduate Center DMA violinist, who has been named to the New Zealand String Quartet, the country’s leading chamber ensemble! See below for more details. https://www.nzsq.org.nz/post/the-new-zealand-string-quartet-farewells-monique-lapins-welcomes-violinist-peter-clark
Prof. Kofi Agawu was honored with the 2023 the Guido Adler Prize by the International Musicological Society. Congratulations to Professor Agawu! https://www.musicology.org/awards-and-programs/ims-gap/95-awards-programs/309-ims-gap2023
Prof. William Rothstein was honored with the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thompson Special Recognition Award for his book, The Musical Language of Italian Opera, 1813-1859, published by Oxford University Press. Congratulations to Professor Rothstein! https://www.ascap.com/press/2023/10/10-31-taylor-thomson-awards
Former Graduate Center composer Angélica Negrón’s Merkin Hall concert in January was covered on the Graduate Center’s website, found at this link: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/music-bloom-composer-angelica-negron-makes-lush-songs-flowers-and-fruit Congratulations to Angélica on a wonderful concert with many premieres!
CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College Distinguished Professor Ursula Oppens was recently featured by the New York Times, in association with her 80th birthday celebration concert at Merkin Hall on Saturday, February 3. Congratulations to Professor Oppens!
Prof. Joseph Straus has just released the podcast, Twenty Stravinsky Analyses! https://open.spotify.com/show/0kLhnp4GA2qJ5YX9lgMYcL Each episode digs deeply into a short passage from a Stravinsky work, from Petrushka to Requiem Canticles. The first episode is also available at SMT-Pod https://smt-pod.org/.
Three members of the Graduate Center Music Department community—Poundie Burstein (faculty), Quynh Nguyen (alumna), and Jennifer Roderer (DMA student)—jointly authored the video-article “The Best Laid Plans . . . and Others: An 18th-Century Compositional Outline,” SMT-V 10.1, available at https://www.smt-v.org. This 10-minute video-article examines issues surrounding the use of models in music analysis, using an analysis from the […]
Graduate Center pianist Han Chen’s recent album of Ligeti piano music was among The New Yorker’s Notable Classical Recordings of 2023, handpicked by Alex Ross. Congratulations!
GC pianist Han Chen has been making headlines with his recent “Infinite Staircase” concert at the National Sawdust on September 24. Some reviews below: The New Yorker – “The Taiwanese pianist Han Chen, a noted interpreter of the Ligeti Etudes and other modernist repertory, has made a blistering album of [Liszt’s] opera transcriptions.” – Alex […]
Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Scott Burnham, who was recently named an Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society. “For his contributions to the fields of musicology and music theory (whose overlap he has richly demonstrated), for his distinguished teaching career, and for his generous service to these fields and to the AMS. His path-breaking […]
Congratulations to PhD candidate Nafset Chenib, whose paper “Blindness in Tchaikovsky’s Opera Iolanta” won the AMS Greater New York Chapter’s annual student paper prize this year!
Creative Classical Concert Management presents the Carnegie Hall debut of award-winning Polish violinist Magdalena Filipczak on Tuesday, May 30th at 8pm in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. The program is inspired by the phantasy motif, including Phantasies by Schubert, Wieniawski and Schönberg. Filipczak showcases selections from her debut album, Essence of Violin, including works by […]
