A “spellbinding solo meditation that hovered between Arabic cantillation and expanded Western tonality, with hints of jazz” and the “most memorable moment of the Divan’s New York residency,” wrote the New Yorker music critic Alex Ross, of Kinan Azmeh’s “Prayer: A Tribute to Edward Said,” performed at a January 29 chamber concert, one of several […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is excited to share that one of our Composition students, Haralabos [Harry] Stafylakis, has recently received a commission from Providence Premiere, a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for new music across communities in the state of Rhode Island. Haralabos will be composing a new trio for soprano Blythe Walker, violinist Alexey Shabalin, […]
Four Graduate Center Scholars will be presenting papers at the Fifth Annual International Schenker Symposium, hosted by Mannes College of Music on March 15th-17th, 2013. On Friday, March 15th, 2013: Bill Rothstein, “Absence and Ambiguity in Schumann’s Manfred Overture” On Saturday, March 16th, 2013: David Gagné, “The Notion of Quintteiller in Schenker’s Published Writings” On Sunday, March 17th, 2013: Ryan Jones, […]
The GC Music Program is excited to announce that the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences has designated Professor Philip Ewell as a recipient of the Feliks Gross Award. The award ceremony will take place on Friday, March 1, and the award itself will be presented by Associate University Provost Julia Wrigley.
The Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies (CLACLS) funds travel and research through their Summer Research Travel Fellowship. Eligible expenses generally include travel and accommodation costs incurred to examine archival and other primary source material and/or to interview relevant informants. Partial awards to cover the eligible expenses may be made. (Expenses attendant to travel to scholarly conferences, […]
The Eighth Annual Pearl Kibre Medieval Study Interdisciplinary Student Conference will be held at the CUNY Graduate Center on Friday, March 1st, 2013. The conference title this year is “New Media and the Middle Ages”, and will feature three panels of paper presentations, with topics ranging from media and memory in the Middle Ages to new […]
On February 16th, 2013, three Graduate Center scholars will be presenting papers at the AMS Greater New York Chapter winter meeting: Professor Emeritus Dr. Barbara Hanning will be presenting “Powerless Spirit: Echo on the Musical Stage of the Late Renaissance”, doctoral student in music theory Ji Yeon Lee will be presenting “Critical Reflections on Robert Lepage’s […]
JITP, The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, cordially invites submissions for all sections. JITP welcomes work that explores critical and creative uses of interactive technology in teaching, learning, and research. We invite submissions of audio or visual presentations, interviews, dialogues, or conversations, creative works, manifestos, or jeremiads as well as traditional long-form articles. Submissions might […]
16th Annual City University of New York Graduate Students in Music (GSIM) Conference Friday 4/12: 1:30–2:00: Registration and welcoming – Student lounge, room 3102 2:00–4:00: Paper session: “Philosophical Influences” Drew Nobile, session chair Room 3491 Zachary Bernstein (CUNY Graduate Center), “Leonhard Euler’s Tentamen novae musicae theoriae and the Inheritance of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy” Emily S. Monk (University of South Carolina), […]
Composer and conductor Tania León, distinguished professor of music at the Graduate Center, has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Contemporary Classical Composition category (79), for “Inura for Voices, Strings and Percussion” on her CD In Motion (Albany Records, TROY 1284). The performing artists are Son Sonora Voices, directed by Judith Cluman, with Son Sonora Ensemble […]
Haralabos Stafylakis (Music) won a $15,000 Charles Ives Fellowship for 2012 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The award will be presented at the academy’s annual ceremonial in May. Stafylakis, a Montréal-born composer, is currently working on his Ph.D. with doctoral faculty members David Del Tredici (Dist. Prof., City, Music) and Jason Eckardt (Assoc. […]
TRANS 17 (2013) invites GC students to submit academic articles about music with a transversal perspective. TRANS-Transcultural Music Review is on-line and free accessed. It is the peer to peer reviewed journal of the Society for ethnomusicology of Spain and Spanish Branch of IASPM. TRANS receives around 30,000 visits per month, ranks in highest place among […]
