MASON BATES PREMIERE Mason Bates, Ph.D. Music Composition (2008) receives in January 2022 a premiere by the Philadephia Orchestra for a newly commissioned piano concerto composed for the pianist Daniil Trifonov.
PISK PRIZE Musicology graduate student Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit has been awarded the Pisk Prize of the American Musicological Society, which recognizes the best graduate student paper of the year.
GÖNCÜ WINS FROMM Music Composition graduate Selim Göncü (Ph.D. anticipated Spring 2022) was awarded a prestigious 2021 commission from the Fromm Music Commission at Harvard University. |
DAEDALUS DRONES Professor Ken Ueno recently had a successful run of 9 sold-out shows of his installation/performance, Daedalus Drones, at the Asia Society of Hong Kong. An hourlong site-specific piece, instrumentalizing flying drones and a fence-labyrinth, it was hailed by China Daily as “an ingeniously crafted work that marries myth and science, presenting primal sounds via bespoke new technology.”
HARD SONGS Professor Emily Zazulia, in collaboration with the ensemble Cut Circle, released an album of technically ambitious, historically important, and never-before-recorded polyphonic music from the fifteenth-century.
DONAUESCHINGER MUSIKTAGE Graduate composition student Didem Coskunseven’s piece “Ext.TheWoods.Night” will be performed by Ensemble Nikel at the 100th annual Donaueschinger Musiktage on October 17th. |
SCOTT WINS RMSS STUDENT PAPER AWARD Ethnomusicology graduate student Melissa J. Scott received the 2021 Student Paper Prize from the Religion, Music and Sound (RMSS) section of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
ZAZULIA PUBLISHES NEW BOOK Assistant Professor Emily Zazulia’s book Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing has just been published with Oxford University Press in the AMS Studies in Music Series
VANHASSEL TO BERKLEE Dan VanHassel, Music Composition Ph.D. 2014, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Composition at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee where he is teaching courses in electronic music and composition. | |
