Alumni News, May 2013

Giuseppe Gerbino (Ph.D. musicology, 2001) received a Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award last February. Established on a donation from trustee Gerry Lenfest (Law '58), the $75,000 Lenfest award recognizes Columbia University faculty who demonstrate unusual merit in scholarship, university citizenship, and professional involvement. Gerbino is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at Columbia University, New York.

Talya Lieberman (Trinity, 2007) has won the Seybold-Russell Award at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music's Opera Scholarship Competition. The award provides full tuition plus stipend to Lieberman, who will begin an Artist Diploma in Opera at CCM in the fall of 2013.

Carl Schimmel (Ph.D. composition, 2008) has developed a new model to study audience preferences in concert ticket sales. His paper, co-written with Wagner Kamakura from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke, was published in the June 2013 issue of the International Journal of Research in Marketing. Schimmel is Assistant Professor of Theory and Composition at Illinois State University.