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Come one, come all to the 26th Annual Graduate Students in Music Conference (GSIM) held virtually March 24-25, 2023. Conference information, including the program and registration information, can be found on […]

Congratulations to Ph.D. Composition candidate, Bahar Royaee, who has been commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard for a new composition. Read more about Bahar’s achievement at the link below!

The students of the Department of Music at The Graduate Center, CUNY, are pleased to announce the 26th Annual GSIM Conference, to be held virtually on March 24-25, 2023. We invite graduate students in all […]

Prof. Joseph Straus’s produced a series of 18 analytical videos about the Rite of Spring (roughly twelve hours of video), which are now available through the website http://riteofspringproject.org . The a […]

Prof. William Rothstein’s long-awaited book, The Musical Language of Italian Opera, 1813–1859, has been published by Oxford University Press. Taking an eclectic analytical approach in examining works by Ros […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 concep […]

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 […]

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 d […]

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 ‘T […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Doctoral Candidate Maren Rothfritz, violist of the Argus Quartet, will travel to Long Beach, California, in March 2023 to perform at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center at California State University Long […]

Martine Thomas, a second year student in the Music Performance DMA Program, will present a solo viola recital at the picturesque Grace Note Farm in Pascoag, Rhode Island on February 26th, 2023. Part of a […]

The German ensemble Contemporary Insights premiered on last Saturday 22nd October a new composition by PhD in composition student Tobias Fandel (tobiasfandel.de). The piece ‘upscale’ for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, […]