The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share a lineup of upcoming concerts by GC alumnus Kinan Azmeh, who will be performing in five different countries over the next four months, going between New York City, Berlin, San Antonio and several other cities in between! Upcoming concerts include the following (as published in Azmeh’s […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that Ensemble 365, consisting of Graduate Center Music performance students and alumni Alice Jones, Mary Hubbell and Karen Rostron, Marta Bedkowska and Mirna Lekić, has been selected to perform at the 2015 Queens New Music Festival. The performance will take place on Sunday, May 17, 2015, at […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that the Society of Chamber Music in Rochester’s College Composition Competition winner is GC Composer Harry Stafylakis. Stafylakis’s composition, Never the Same River for two violins, cello, bassoon and piano will receive a cash award and a performance in a SCMR concert during an upcoming season. Congratulations, Harry! […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that D.M.A. pianist Ran Dank will be performing a solo concert at the Town Hall on February 8th, 2015, as part of the Peoples’ Symphony Concert series. The program will include the following works: Boulez: Douze Notations Beethoven: Sonata Op. 27, No. 1 in E flat major Chopin:: […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to congratulate Ji In Yang, a violinist in the D.M.A. program in performance, on a fantastic performance this past Tuesday, October 28th at Alice Tully Hall, as part of the Sejong Soloists. The concert was a dual celebration, commemorating Sejong’s 20th anniversary and honoring Artistic Director Hyo Kang. Highlights of […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to announce that theorist Zachary Bernstein was awarded the 2014 Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award from the Music Theory Society of New York State for his paper titled “The Problem of Completion in Milton Babbitt’s Music and Thought.” As part of the award, the paper will be published in an upcoming […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to announce that the winner of this year’s Robert Starer Composition Award is Joseph Prestamo for “Ballade” for solo piano. Joseph described this work in the following program note (quoted from his website): “Chopin was the first to use the title ‘Ballade’ for an abstract, single movement piano work. Many composers, […]
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 recent success of Composition Program alumnus Daniel Sonenberg, who was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of the concert premiere of his opera The Summer King, which will take place this coming May in Portland, Maine. The opera is based on […]
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 […]
