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 Composition Students, Jessica Rudman, will be presenting a paper titled “Disruption and Development: Pitch Processes in the Music of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich” at the Society for American Music 2014 Conference in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Of the 313 proposals received for the conference, approximately 47% […]
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 […]
New York, NY — On May 17, 2013, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) will present the Victor Herbert Award to ASCAP member Tania León, Founder & Artistic Director of Composers Now Festival and Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center. The award, given during ASCAP’s 14th annual […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to announce the recent success of musicology doctoral student Melissa Khong in winning a prestigious fellowship from the Belgium American Educational Foundation. The research fellowship will provide funding for Melissa to spend the next the next academic year in Brussels and Liège to consult and study numerous manuscripts of […]
The CUNY Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to announce the winners of the Brook and Starer Awards for this year: Barry Brook Dissertation Award: Nathan Bowen for “Mobile Phones, Group Improvisation, and Music: Trends in Digital Socialized Music Making” Robert Starer Composition Award: Jessica Rudman for “First Praise” for Mixed Sextet Congratulations to Nathan and Jessica!
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 […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to congratulate musicology student Melissa L. Khong on the publication of her article titled “A Neo-Beethovenian Approach? The Case of Guillaume Lekeu’s String Quartet” in the Dutch Journal of Music Theory, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Winter 2013). The Dutch Journal of Music Theory is a tri-annual, peer-reviewed journal that embraces […]
The Foundation for Iberian Music has been featured on a recent episode of CUNY TV! Watch the interview with Foundation Director Dr. Antoni Piza at http://www.cuny.tv/show/studywiththebest Episode Details Original tape date: February 13, 2013. First aired: February 24, 2013. Summary: This month, the news magazine show about CUNY dives headfirst into music. First, we visit with the freestyle […]
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