Congratulations to Serena Wang (Adviser, Professor Anne Stone) and Emily Weiss (Adviser, Professor Jeffrey Taylor), who are among 10 students chosen through a competitive application process for this year’s Dissertation Showcase! Imagine summing up years of dissertation research and writing in a lively, three-minute public presentation. Ten students will do just that at The Graduate Center’s fourth annual “Inside The Graduate […]
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GC Student Carrie Frey Performs D.M.A. Recital–Stream Online!
On Friday, April 23rd at 1:00pm EST, violist Carrie Frey will perform a set of works exploring the instrument’s contrapuntal and lyrical capabilities in a livestream recital from Elebash Hall. The program traces a lineage of string writing from J.P. von Westhoff’s Suite No. 1 in A minor, a precursor to Bach’s famous Partitas and Sonatas, to […]
GC Professor Philip Ewell Presents on UNC Symposia in Music and Culture Series
On April 9th, Professor Ewell presents the James W. Pruett Lecture in Music and Culture on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Symposia in Music and Culture Series. An associate professor and performing cellist at the Hunter College at CUNY, music theorist Philip Ewell’s work centers on critical race theory, harmony and mode in […]
GC Student Kirsten Jermé Performs D.M.A. Recital–Stream Online!
(photo by Ana Galizes) On Wednesday, April 7th at 1:00pm EST, cellist Kirsten Jermé will perform three solo cello suites spanning three centuries in a livestream recital from Elebash Hall. Blending elements of dance, theater, poeticism, lyricism and brilliance, these suites demonstrate the evolution of the genre as well as its indebtedness to J.S. Bach – […]
GC Professor Philip Ewell: “On Confronting Music Theory’s Antiblackness: Three Case Studies”
On Friday, March 26, 2021 – 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., GC Professor Philip Ewell will present a talk, “On Confronting Music Theory’s Antiblackness: Three Case Studies” on the Columbia University Music Colloquium Series. Abstract: The Summer 2020 controversy over Vol. 12 of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies has changed the course of American music theory in ways not seen […]
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, […]
Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival to Feature GC Music Students
Presented in partnership with the Center for Humanities at the Graduate Center, the second annual Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival will be taking place online from Friday, March 5 – Sunday, March 7, 2021, and will explore the role of music in contemporary Ukrainian culture and politics through lively presentations and performances under the theme “Voices Across […]
How to Analyze 18th Century Music Using the Right Metaphors
Check out this story about GC Professor Poundie Burstein’s new book, Journeys Through Galant Expositions: https://sum.cuny.edu/how-to-analyze-18th-century-galant-music/
GC Student Michèle Duguay Wins SMT-40 Dissertation Fellowship
Congratulations to GC Music Theory student, Michèle Duguay, who has been awarded an SMT-40 Dissertation Fellowship for work on her dissertation, “Gendering the Virtual Space: Sonic Femininities and Masculinities in Contemporary Top 40 Music.” BIO Michèle Duguay (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in music theory at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she also completed a […]
GC Student Han Chen Launches Migration Music
Congratulations to GC DMA student Han Chen, who has launched a program entitled “Migration Music”: “Migration Music is a series of interviews and performances featuring immigrant composers. As an immigrant myself, I always wonder what it means to other immigrants to have left their countries and moved to a new world. If a composer, I […]
GC Student Lina Tabak wins SMT 2020 Student Presentation Award
Lina Sofia Tabak is the recipient of the 2020 SMT Student Presentation Award for her paper “Pulse Dissonance in Colombian Currulao,” which is a result of her undergraduate thesis titled, “Rhythmic and Metrical Practices in Two Colombian Dance Genres.” Lina is currently a second-year PhD student in music theory at the CUNY Graduate Center. She […]
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, […]
