The Department of Music joins other voices in denouncing the recent killings in the Atlanta-area spas. These attacks not only showed the horrific presence of anti-Asian racism in the nation but also the increased incidence gendered violence.
Professor Mariusz Kozak has published an article titled "Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Violin Phase and the Experience of Time, or Why Does Process Music Work?" in Music Theory Online.
Ellie M. Hisama to be Professor Emerita of Music, effective July 1, 2021.
Michael Weinstein-Reiman (GSAS '21) has been appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Wesleyan University, starting Fall 2021.
Toru Momii has been appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, starting Fall 2021.
Dr. Scott Gleason (GSAS '13) has been promoted to Acquisitions Editor for Grove Music Online at Oxford University Press.
Dr. Julia Hamilton has published "'African' Songs and Women's Abolitionism in the Home, 1787-1807" in "Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture."
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Mary Kouyoumdjian, who successfully defended her DMA dissertation in Music Composition titled "Creating with ghosts: Identity and artistic purpose as Armenian diaspora" on June 4, 2021.
Dr. Sean Parr (GSAS '10) has a number of recent accomplishments to announce. He recently published his first book, Vocal Virtuosity: The Origins of the Coloratura Soprano in Nineteenth-Century Opera (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Professor Ellie Hisama (Music Theory and Historical Musicology) has published "Getting to Count" as an advance article in Music Theory Spectrum.
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Julia Hamilton, who on May 26, 2021 successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation in Historical Musicology entitled "Political Songs in Polite Society: Singing about Africans in the Time of the British Abolition Movement, 1787 to 1807.”
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Onur Yıldırım, who successfully defended his DMA dissertation in Music Composition titled "Phonetics-based Techniques in My Compositional Methodology and Two Compositions: 'ŠÀ {karāz}' for large ensemble and 'eschaton according to bēl-rē'u-šu' for percussion trio" on May 24, 2021.