The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that the American Composers Orchestra will be performing a symphonic version of “Brittle Fracture” by GC Composer Haralabos [ Harry ] Stafylakis as part of the 23rd Annual Underwood New Music Readings Sessions. Harry is one of seven composers chosen from an international pool of more than 400 […]
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 share that the Queens New Music Festival on May 16th-18th will feature two GC Music students, and one GC Music alumni. D.M.A. flute alum Roberta Michel will be performing with GC D.M.A. pianist Mirna Lekić on Saturday, May 17th @ 6pm. Roberta and Mirna form Duo RoMi, a New York‐based ensemble dedicated […]
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 rave review given to D.M.A. pianist Wayne Weng for his recent performance with the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra! Wayne performed Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, accompanied by an innovative video component that allowed cameras to capture and display close-up views of his hands as he performed. […]
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 announce that DMA soprano Hsin-Mei Chang will be singing in Carnegie Hall’s upcoming master class with celebrated mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig. The master class will take place this coming Wednesday, January 15th at 7:30pm in Zankel Hall. The master class is part of Marilyn Horne’s celebration of the art of song series […]
As Musicologists from around the globe descend upon Pittsburgh, PA this week for the annual American Musicological Society Conference, the CUNY Graduate Center Music Program is pleased share that two Graduate Center Music students will be presenting at the conference: Jennifer Jones-Wilson will be presenting “The New Orleans French Opera Company in New York City, June-September […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that two of our doctoral students – Melissa Khong and Ji Yeon Lee – will be presenting papers at the upcoming AMS Greater New York Chapter meeting on “Shakespeare and Music.” Melissa Khong will be presenting a paper titled “Ophelia as Creative Agency in Guillaume Lekeu’s Second Symphonic […]
The CUNY Graduate Center is pleased to announce that composition doctoral student André Brégégère will be presenting his composition, Against The Grain, at The International Csound Conference at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts at the end of October. The International Csound Conference provides a venue for Csound developers and users to discuss various aspects of the audio […]
