On Sunday, September 18, John Musto is to be featured as soloist with Western New York Chamber Orchestra in a performance of his Second Piano Concerto. The performance opens WNYCO’s 2022-2023 season. More info here: https://www.wnychamberorchestra.com/2022-2023-season.html
The music department is pleased and proud to announce that 2018 alum Soyeon Kate Lee has been appointed to the piano faculty at the Juilliard School. During her time in the program here, Ms. Lee studied with Ursula Oppens and Richard Goode. She had previously been on the faculty of Cincinnati College Conservatory of music […]
Born in Havana, Cuba, Tania León is highly regarded as a composer, conductor, educator, and advisor to arts organizations. Her orchestral work Stride, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Recent premieres include works for Los Angeles Philharmonic, Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, NDR Symphony Orchestra, Grossman Ensemble, International […]
The Post-1945 Music Analysis IG 2021 Publication Award committee had a difficult choice this year. We received 23 submissions from 25 authors covering a diverse set of topics and musical styles. Our decision came down to those papers that most closely followed the stipulations set out in the call for papers, which were then assessed […]
Events of special interest to music theorists held at the CUNY Graduate Center During the semester, the Music Department presents a number of formal and informal events, meetings, and guest lectures that are available to students of the Music Theory program at the CUNY Graduate Center. These events include: Theory Group meetings: informal gatherings where […]
Recent Graduates Here is a list of (now former) students with newly minted Ph. Ds from the Music Theory program at the CUNY Graduate Center, along with their current position: Stephen Gomez, 2023 “Form in Hip-Hop: Techniques, Aesthetics, and Meanings.” (University of Alabama) Charles Weaver, 2023 “The Solesmes Theory of Plainchant Rhythm: Its Sources, Methods, and […]
The Elebash Award About the Award: The Baisley Powell Elebash Fund Committee welcomes applications from doctoral students at the CUNY Graduate Center pursuing topics related to music in New York City (this is broadly defined as anywhere in the five boroughs or Greater NYC area). Topics must seriously engage the cultural, political, and/or social context […]
NYU Percussion Ensemble on ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown This weekend’s broadcast of Sunday NFL Countdown on ESPN will feature a performance of NYU Percussion faculty member Javier Diaz’s arrangement of “In the Air Tonight” by the NYU Percussion Ensemble, directed by Jonathan Haas. On the 40th anniversary of the release of the Phil Collins song, NFL players from across the […]
GC DMA student, Magdalena Filipczak Performs Max Bruch’s Violin concert no. 1 with the Oxford Millennium Orchestra Date: November, 19th 2021 Time: 8pm, GMT Place: Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford. Tickets: omotickets.com
GC Professor Sylvia Kahan (DMA, ’93) is happy to announce the publication of a book chapter, “Gabriel Fauré’s ‘Other’ Career in the Paris and London Music Salons,” in the newly-released Fauré Studies (Cambridge University Press). https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/faure-studies/CBA3E1F25CB100F5947A80290F872FC7
GC Professor Sylvia Kahan (DMA, ’93) is happy to announce the publication of a book chapter, “Gabriel Fauré’s ‘Other’ Career in the Paris and London Music Salons,” in the newly-released Fauré Studies (Cambridge University Press). https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/faure-studies/CBA3E1F25CB100F5947A80290F872FC7
Please join us in congratulating one recent and one soon-to-be alum on the following: (1) Dr. Noel Torres-Rivera, who completed his dissertation a few months ago, was offered a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC). (2) Michèle Dugay (who will defend her dissertation in July) was offered a tenure-track Assistant Professor […]
