Graduate News
Bryan Christian's (Ph.D. composition, 2015) new CD, "Each flows into the other," released by Irritable Hedgehog Music
Monday, June 24, 2019Commissioned and recorded with the support of New Music USA, "Each flows into the other" is available digitally or as a 2 CD album. From the album's liner notes by ethnomusicologist Rebecca Lentjes: "Dual sound worlds flowing into and out of each other, converging and then... Read More »
JACK Quartet recording of James Budinich's "Lines, Breaks, and White Spaces"
Monday, June 24, 2019James writes, "The last two years I've been working on a new string quartet, Lines, Breaks, and White Spaces, with the JACK Quartet -- they've been amazing collaborators, it's been such a pleasure seeing them bring my piece to life. The recording's up now on Soundcloud, thanks to the... Read More »
R. Larry Todd is featured in BBC Radio 3's "Cristiani and Her Cello" with Kate Kennedy
Monday, June 24, 2019A cello virtuoso, there is relatively little known about the Parisian-born Cristiani today. Felix Mendelssohn dedicated his famous Song Without Words for cello and piano to her, and it is this piece that Kennedy and Professor Todd discuss. Professor Todd also... Read More »
Graduate composer Eren Gümrükçüoğlu participates in June in Buffalo conference
Wednesday, June 12, 2019Presented by the Department of Music and The Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music, June in Buffalo, a festival and conference dedicated to composers, took place June 3-9 2019 at the University at Buffalo. An invited composer, Eren's Bozkir was performed by Mivos Quartet... Read More »
Graduate composer Dayton Kinney is an invited finalist for the 15th Thailand International Composers Competition “Rapee Sagarik Composition Prize”
Monday, May 6, 2019Kinney's piece "Hand Carved Names and Railroad Tracks" will be premiered by the Grey Matter Ensemble on August 9, 2019 at MACM hall. One winner will be awarded an honorarium of $1,500 at the conclusion of the festival and competition. The Thailand International Composition Festival (... Read More »
Two musicology alumni named 2019-2020 National Humanities Center Fellows
Tuesday, April 23, 2019Candace Bailey is Professor of Music at North Carolina Central University. Her NHC project is Women, Music, and the Performance of Gentility in the Mid-Nineteenth Century South (Mellon-HBCU Fellowship), under contract with the University of Illinois Press. Professor Bailey was a 2016-17... Read More »
Robert Parkins's new CD, "Salome's Dance," released by Loft Recordings
Tuesday, April 16, 2019Dr. Parkins’s eighth solo recording features late German Romantic music (Max Reger and Richard Strauss) and works by American composers (Florence Price, Kent Kennan, Robert Ward, Adophus Hailstork, and Dan Locklair). Among them are world premiere recordings of three pieces as well as first... Read More »
New digital release of Stephen Jaffe's Light Dances: Chamber Concerto No. 2
Tuesday, April 9, 2019This performance of Light Dances by the Da Capo Chamber Players (Bridge Records) gives equal measure to the composition's poetry and electrifying energy. Jaffe writes: "I love to work on chamber music intensively, I love to rethink ensembles, and I love to seek new musical ground,... Read More »
Graduate composer James Budinich collaborates with Pigeonwing Dance for CUNY Dance Initiative
Tuesday, March 19, 2019Known for her elegant and playful choreography, Gabrielle Lamb is the recipient of a Princess Grace Award for Choreography and recently participated in ABT’s inaugural Choreographic Incubator. In this world premiere collaboration with composer James Budinich, Lamb adapts the tensile intricacy of... Read More »
Musicology Ph.D. candidate Matthew Zeller to deliver presentations at the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music annual conference (Durham, NC) and Syntagma Musicum 1619-2019 (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Tuesday, March 19, 2019Zeller will deliver his presentation at the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music annual conference on April 6 and at the Syntagma Musicum 1619-2019 International Musicological Conference on April 8, 2019. Abstract: The four-hundredth anniversary of Praetorius’s De Organographia... Read More »