Congratulations to DMA cellist Clare Monfredo, who has been selected as one of twelve students to present at the Graduate Center’s 2026 Dissertation Showcase! Selected doctoral candidates across various fields of study will make short presentations of three minutes each, describing their dissertations in front of the public and a panel of judges in a […]
On Wednesday, October 29th at 6:30pm in Elebash Hall, Professor Suzanne Farrin joins a discussion alongside Idra Novey and Mila Burns following a performance of excerpts from The Passion According to Janair, a solo show performed by Brazilian actress and playwright Ana Carbatti. The Passion According to Janair, co-written by Andressa Furletti, draws inspiration from […]
Come one, come all to the 26th Annual Graduate Students in Music Conference (GSIM) held virtually March 24-25, 2023. Conference information, including the program and registration information, can be found on the GSIM website at https://gsim.commons.gc.cuny.edu.
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 […]
On Monday, March 22nd, Music from Copland House time-travels across the centuries when it features Pulitzer prize-winning composer John Harbison’s provocative quartet for piano and strings entitled November 19, 1828, the day the beloved 19th-century master Franz Schubert passed away. This eerie, ethereal “musical hallucination” invokes moments in the Viennese composer’s life, his passage into […]
Monday, February 22, 2021 at 1:00 PM – Musto Cello & Piano Sonata In his scintillating new Sonata for Cello and Piano, Graduate Center professor and Emmy Award-winning composer John Musto seamlessly brings together the erudition of a contrapuntal musical master, the brilliance and “groove” of a jazz instrumentalist, and the rhythmic ebullience of a Brazilian dancer. This […]
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 […]
