Andrew Haringer Appointed to St. Anselm College
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Feb
21,
2018
Andrew Haringer (PhD, Historical Musicology, 2012) has been appointed Assistant Professor of Music at St. Anselm College
Alumni News
Ernest H. Sanders, 1918-2018
posted
Jan
16,
2018
Ernest H. Sanders, Professor Emeritus of Music at Columbia, where he taught from 1954 until his retirement in 1986, died at his home in New York, on January 13, 2018. He was 99 years old.
Tyshawn Sorey Named MacArthur Fellow
posted
Oct
11,
2017
Congratulations to Tyshawn Sorey (DMA Composition '17), who has been named a 2017 MacArthur Fellow!
Mario Diaz de Leon's New Album
posted
Sep
29,
2017
Mario Diaz de Leon (DMA ’13), Core Lecturer in Music Humanities, has released his third composer portrait album, entitled “Sanctuary.”
Tyshawn Sorey in The New Yorker magazine and The New York Times
posted
Jul
3,
2017
Illustration by Gaurab Thakali for The New Yorker
Tyshawn Sorey (DMA '17) is featured in an article by Alex Ross in The New Yorker of July 10/17, 2017 and in a New York Times profile (August 2, 2017).
Columbia Composers at the Ojai Music Festival
posted
Jun
8,
2017
This year's Ojai Music Festival prominently features several Composition alumni and faculty: Courtney Bryan, Mario Diaz de Leon, George Lewis, and Tyshawn Sorey.
Sean Hallowell Receives Stanford Thinking Matters Fellowship
posted
May
31,
2017
Sean Hallowell (PhD, 2013) is a 2018-2020 recipient of the Thinking Matters Fellowship at Stanford University. The Fellowship offers an opportunity for recent recipients of doctoral degrees to teach in an innovative liberal education program with a cohort of like-minded colleagues from a wide variety of different disciplines.
Congratulations to our Graduates!
posted
May
24,
2017
Congratulations to all of our graduates from the 2016-2017 academic year!
Maria Sonevytsky Appointed to UC Berkeley
posted
May
24,
2017
Maria Sonevytsky (PhD, Ethnomusicology, 2012) has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California at Berkeley, beginning July 2018.
Fred Lerdahl New York Premiere: Time and Again
posted
May
24,
2017
League of Composers Orchestra's Ninth Season Finale this coming Thursday at 7:30 at Miller Theatre
Columbia's esteemed Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition and director of the Fritz Reiner Center, Alfred Lerdahl, will be presenting the New York Premiere of Time and Again with the League of Composers Orchestra
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. MATTHEW RICKETTS!
posted
May
13,
2017
The Department warmly congratulates Matthew Ricketts, who successfully defended his DMA dissertation in Composition, Texts—Textures—Intertexts: The Orchestral Worlds of Brian Cherney, on May 12, 2017.
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI!
posted
May
13,
2017
The Department warmly congratulates Christopher Trapani, who successfully defended his DMA dissertation in Composition, Convergence Lines: A Musical Distillation of Thomas Pynchon’s V, on April 28, 2017.
David Gutkin Joins Peabody Conservatory Musicology Faculty
posted
May
12,
2017
David Gutkin will join the Faculty of the Department of Musicology at Peabody Conservatory in 2018.
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. BENJAMIN HANSBERRY!
posted
May
9,
2017
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Benjamin Hansberry, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in music theory, Phenomenon and Abstraction: Coordinating Concepts in Music Theory and Analysis, on May 3, 2017.
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. MAEVE STERBENZ!
posted
May
9,
2017
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Maeve Sterbenz, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in music theory, Moving with Music: Approaches to the Analysis of Movement-Music Interactions, on May 9, 2017.
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. ORIT HILEWICZ!
posted
Apr
27,
2017
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Orit Hilewicz, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in music theory, Listening to Ekphrastic Musical Compositions, on April 26, 2017.
NEW Jazz Album by Chris Washburne: Rags and Bone
posted
Apr
25,
2017
"The bone man blows your mind as he blows your ears open"
Chris Washburne's newest CD release and review: Rags & Roots
Mahir Cetiz wins Guggenheim Fellowship
posted
Apr
8,
2017
Core Lecturer Mahir Cetiz (DMA, Composition, 2013) has been awarded a 2017 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.