The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share with you a video of composer Jeanine Tesori’s acceptance speech when she won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Musical Score for Fun Home. We are honored to have GC Music Composition faculty member Professor Tania León acknowledged by name in her acceptance speech: “I am so […]
Dr. Faustus Concert to Feature a Roster of GC Composers & Performers
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that tomorrow, May 20th, 2015, the Dr. Faustus composers project will present its latest project, New Synchronisms, inspired by Mario Davidovsky’s eponymous compositions and will feature five world premieres of works for solo instrument and electronic sounds by GC composers Elizabeth Adams, André Brégégère, Nicholas R. Nelson, […]
Music Graduate Alice Jones to speak at The Fifty-First Annual Commencement
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that D.M.A. Graduate Alice Jones has been chosen to speak at the 2015 Graduate Center Commencement ceremony! She was elected from many worthy candidates from all the GC doctoral programs to present some welcoming remarks to this year’s graduates. Congratulations, Alice! For more information about Alice Jones, […]
New Collaborative Work by GC Composer Whitney George, The Curiosity Cabinet, & Puppeteer Daniel Fay
The Graduate Center Music Program is please to share that on May 23rd, 2015, The Curiosity Cabinet will be presenting a new collaborative work titled “The Curious Tale of Ed Leedskalnin” with puppeteer Daniel Fay at The Standard Toykraft in Brooklyn, featuring new music by GC composer Whitney George, and with GC DMA alumna Alice Jones playing […]
A Full Summer Concert Lineup for GC Music Alumnus Kinan Azmeh
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 […]
Ensemble 365 to Perform at the 2015 Queens New Music Festival
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 […]
Harry Stafylakis wins SCMR College Composition Competition
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! […]
Polina Nazaykinskaya Awarded a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that Ph.D. Composition and Music Theory student Polina Nazaykinskaya has been awarded a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Polina is one of four CUNY students to win this prestigious and generous award for 2015. Congratulations, Polina! For more information about Polina Nazaykinskaya, see: http://www.pdsoros.org/current_fellows/#nazaykinskaya For more information […]
Composers Now Awarded Transformative Grant
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that Composers Now, an organization founded and directed by GC Composition Faculty member Tania León, has been awarded a transformative grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund for 2015. The support will allow Composers Now to continue to deepen its commitment to composers, both through the annual festival in […]
Composer Angélica Negrón lands New Fellowship & Commission from the ACO
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that composition student Angélica Negrón was recently selected as a Van Lier Fellow for American Composers Orchestra. This year-long program immerses fellows into the professional environment of the ACO as they work with the orchestra, interact with composers, and gain experience in all facets of orchestra music, including composition, […]
GC Pianist Ran Dank to perform solo concert at Town Hall
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:: […]
D.M.A. soprano Andrea Covais a Featured Master Teacher at NJ High School Choral Day
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to congratulate D.M.A. vocalist Andrea Covais on her recent participation in the New Jersey High School’s Choral Day. Covais gave two master classes to both the SATB choir and the SSA choir, working with individual singers as well as the choir as a whole. Their work was showcased at […]