Philip Stoecker (CUNY 2003) received the Outstanding Multi-Author Collection Award for co-editing (with Edward Venn) the book Adès Studies (Cambridge: CUP, 2021). Among other essays, this book features the article “Sonic Allegory in Adès’s The Exterminating Angel” by CUNY professor Yayoi Uno Everett.
Noriko Manabe (CUNY 2009) received the SMT 2022 Outstanding Publication Award for her article “We gon’ be alright? The ambiguities of Kendrick Lamar’s protest anthem,” Music Theory Online, 25(1).
DMA Performance (’17) alum Chelsea Lane will release her debut album Suspensions on the Better Company Records label on December 2nd across all streaming platforms. The album draws on contemporary, minimalist-inspired works to explore the theme of “suspensions,” both literal and figurative. Pairing newly commissioned works (by Ellis Ludwig-Leone and Molly Joyce) with Lane’s new […]
Itzá García will give a presentation entitled: “Tempo FM: Electronic processing beyond sound” at the Society of Music Theory (SMT) 2022 Annual Meeting. She will discuss her development of the concept Tempo FM in relation to her piece Secondly… for string quartet written in 2022. The talk will cover the relationship between frequency and tempo in […]
I am honoured to have been recently appointed as a principal member of Australia’s Omega Ensemble, one of the finest groups of its type in the nation. Of particular interest to me is the ensemble’s special and ongoing connection to the US, with many new works each year written by American composers. Later this month, […]
Graduate Center doctoral student Joseph Vaz will be featured in Harmonia Seattle’s chamber music series on March 31, 2023. This concert will feature a piano sonata written in 2020 for Joseph by Harmonia director William C. White, followed by chamber music with members of the Harmonia orchestra. The program will include the Schumann Piano Quintet […]
Kris Königin (they/he), a trans musicologist and vocal instructor, will present his work “Archiving Trans, Trans in the Archive: A Methodological Framework for Studying and Locating Our Musical ‘Trancestors’” at both the American Studies Association (5 Nov) and American Musicological Society (10 Nov) national conferences in New Orleans. Using primary sources from the 1860s through […]
Graeme Steele Johnson performs three concerts in Seattle, twice with his award-winning quintet WindSync for Emerald City Music, as well as another chamber music program at the National Nordic Museum. WindSync’s program at Emerald City Music includes the group’s original arrangements and commissions from Marc Mellits, Akshaya Avril Tucker and Nathalie Joachim (world premiere), and […]
In February 2023, the Joyce and Henry Schwob School of Music will present the piano trio Longleash on their celebrated Chamber Music Series, hosted at the Bo Bartlett Center in Columbus, GA. Longleash, a trio specializing in new music, includes two GC DMA candidates: Pala Garcia (violin) and John Popham (cello). Alongside their colleague Julia […]
In February 2023, the Joyce and Henry Schwob School of Music will present the piano trio Longleash on their celebrated Chamber Music Series, hosted at the Bo Bartlett Center in Columbus, GA. Longleash, a trio specializing in new music, includes two GC DMA candidates: Pala Garcia (violin) and John Popham (cello). Alongside their colleague Julia […]
Earlier in October Ethan Brown (first year, cello performance) was invited to go play a concert week at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The company was presenting a concert starring Renee Fleming and Rod Gilfry in Kevin Puts’s “The Brightness of Light” as well as popular numbers from the “golden age” of Broadway. The libretto […]
On December 1st at Altefeuerwache Köln (Cologne, Germany), f:t trio (pianists Magdalena Cerezo, Yu-Ting Huang, and Jana Luksts) will present a concert of newly-commissioned works for piano six-hands by George Katehis (world premiere) and Sophie Youjung Lee (world premiere) alongside works for various configurations by Jessie Marino, Mauricio Kagel, Georges Aperghis, and Elena Rykova. More […]
