Graduate Center pianist Han Chen’s recent album of Ligeti piano music was among The New Yorker’s Notable Classical Recordings of 2023, handpicked by Alex Ross. Congratulations!
Han Chen appears in the New Yorker, New York Times, and more
GC pianist Han Chen has been making headlines with his recent “Infinite Staircase” concert at the National Sawdust on September 24. Some reviews below: The New Yorker – “The Taiwanese pianist Han Chen, a noted interpreter of the Ligeti Etudes and other modernist repertory, has made a blistering album of [Liszt’s] opera transcriptions.” – Alex […]
Professor Scott Burnham named an Honorary Member of AMS
Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Scott Burnham, who was recently named an Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society. “For his contributions to the fields of musicology and music theory (whose overlap he has richly demonstrated), for his distinguished teaching career, and for his generous service to these fields and to the AMS. His path-breaking […]
PhD candidate Nafset Chenib wins AMS Greater New York Chapter Student award
Congratulations to PhD candidate Nafset Chenib, whose paper “Blindness in Tchaikovsky’s Opera Iolanta” won the AMS Greater New York Chapter’s annual student paper prize this year!
Carnegie Hall Debut by Violinist and DMA candidate Magdalena Filipczak
Creative Classical Concert Management presents the Carnegie Hall debut of award-winning Polish violinist Magdalena Filipczak on Tuesday, May 30th at 8pm in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. The program is inspired by the phantasy motif, including Phantasies by Schubert, Wieniawski and Schönberg. Filipczak showcases selections from her debut album, Essence of Violin, including works by […]
Fresh Science conference features
On March 23–24 2023, Visiting Scholar Researcher Liza Sirenko (Ukraine) co-organized “Fresh Science,” 17th International Youth Scientific and Practical Online Conference. The conference featured a number of scholars from around the world, including a number of DMA and PhD students from the Graduate Center CUNY. One of keynote talks was given by Prof. Joseph Straus. […]
Congratulations to musicologist Lidia Chang (Ph.D. 2021)
Please join us in congratulating musicologist Lidia Chang (Ph.D. 2021) who has accepted a tenure-track job at Colorado College! Lidia is a Baroque flutist and musicologist whose dissertation, “‘Leisure with Decorum’: Gentlemen Making Music in the Georgian Era’ was advised by Stephanie Jensen-Moulton. Congratulations Lidia!
The 26th Annual Graduate Students in Music Conference (GSIM)
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.
Ph.D. candidate, Bahar Royaee, receives Harvard Fromm Music Foundation Commission (2022)
Congratulations to Ph.D. Composition candidate, Bahar Royaee, who has been commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard for a new composition. Read more about Bahar’s achievement at the link below! https://frommfoundation.fas.harvard.edu/people/bahar-royaee
The January 16th proposal deadline for this year’s GSIM conference is fast approaching!
The students of the Department of Music at The Graduate Center, CUNY, are pleased to announce the 26th Annual GSIM Conference, to be held virtually on March 24-25, 2023. We invite graduate students in all disciplines who work on music to submit proposals for presentations on any topic. We are accepting proposals for academic papers and […]
Prof. Joseph Straus’s Rite of Spring project
Prof. Joseph Straus’s produced a series of 18 analytical videos about the Rite of Spring (roughly twelve hours of video), which are now available through the website http://riteofspringproject.org . The analyses are presented in a way that might be of interest to people who are not professionals, as well as by music professionals. Prof. Straus […]
Prof. William Rothstein publishes a new book on Italian opera
Prof. William Rothstein’s long-awaited book, The Musical Language of Italian Opera, 1813–1859, has been published by Oxford University Press. Taking an eclectic analytical approach in examining works by Rossini, Bellini, Mercadante, Donizetti, and Verdi and, Meyerbeer, Rothstein uses ideas originating in several centuries, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first, to argue that operatic music can […]
