On September 26th, 2018, Music Performance Program held a special recital of the winners of the Richard and Brooke Kamin Rapaport Summer Music Performance Fellowship.
The Department of Music is now accepting applications for the Serwer Fund, which will assist currently registered graduate students in Historical Musicology, Theory, and Ethnomusicology in the pursuit of their scholarly work, including dissertation-related research, travel to conferences, and other initiatives.
The Department of Music is pleased to formally announce a study group in historical music notation, Ars Nota, which meets weekly on Columbia’s campus to sing medieval and Renaissance music from facsimiles of original sources.
For the Daughters of Harlem: Working in Sound has won an Action Grant from Humanities New York and a Public Outreach Grant from Columbia University’s Center for Science and Society to host a campus workshop in October 2018 for young women of color from New York’s public high schools.
The Columbia Department of Music congratulates our newest PhD, Dr. Kevin C. Holt!
Please Visit our Memorial Website for Anne Gefell, our former Director of Academic Administration and Finance.
Postdoctoral Music Theory Lecturer Maeve Sterbenz has been appointed Scholar-in-Residence at the San Francisco Ballet.
Professor Kevin Fellezs Featured in Columbia College Today
Kevin Fellezs, Associate Professor of Music in Ethnmusicology, is featured in the Summer 2018 issue of Columbia College Today.
The Music Department is offering a wide range of courses this fall, including several featured and new electives.
Alumna Nina C. Young (DMA, Composition 2016) has recently been announced as the Assistant Professor of Composition and Director of the Electronic Music Studios at the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin. Her contract will begin with the 2018-2019 academic year.
Photos by Sonja Kieser and Lhoussain Simour.
Report on a Conference co-organized by Alessandra Ciucci in Morocco with support from Center for Ethnomusicology and Global Humanities in Essaouira (Morocco), 18-23 June, 2018.
Our colleague George Lewis was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Harvard in this year's Commencement.
