News

Christine Dang, Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology,

Presents at three November 2013 Conferences:“Democracy Vocalities: Musical Aestheticization of the Senegalese Elections of 2012,” paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, 2013. “Sonic Flow, Cultural Mobility, and Political Métissage in the Birth of Saint-Louis Jazz,” paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Baltimore, 2013.

Myron Gray, Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology,

presents "Renaud de Chateaudun's 'Queen of France' and the Royalist Lament in Federal Philadelphia." American Musicological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh PA, November 8, 2013. 

Kai-Young Chan, Ph.d. candidate in Composition,

Featured piece:  Shimmers the Shivery Moon, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano.  2013 Chinese Composers' Festival, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, 5 December 2013, 8 p.m., Sheung Wan Civic Centre Theatre

Carlo Lanfossi, Ph.D. candidate in Musicology,

presents at AMS Annual Meeting, 8 November, 3:30 p.m., Pittsburgh, PA.  "Rehabilitating Agrippina on the Opera Seria Stage between Venice and Milan."

Brooke McCorkle, Ph.D. candidate in Musicology,

publishes in Norient Academic Online Journal, Volume 2.  July 2013.  "Stuff that Dreams Are Made of:  Music and the Future in Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express."

Luke Carlson, Ph.D. candidate in Composition,

 has been awarded the Druckman Prize at the Aspen Music Festival, a commission for an original 10-12 minute orchestral composition to be performed at the festival (summer 2014) under the baton of the music director, Robert Spano.

Congratulations to Stephan Hammel, Ph.D. Musicology,

on the successful defense of his dissertation "Music, Aesthetics, Peripherality: Notes on a Philosophy of History of Latin American Music (1910-1973)" (Jairo Moreno, advisor) 

Rediscovering an interview with David Kim, Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra

On April 26, 2012, Davis Butner (C'14) and James Kwak (W'14) sat down with David Kim at the XPN studios here on campus to talk about the violin, music, life, and much more.  Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDgqCzCTPoQ to listen to the interview.

Jennifer Saltzstein, Ph.D. 2007, publishes new book.

  See http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=14207

Welcome Jim Sykes, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology.

The Music Department is delighted to welcome Jim Sykes to our faculty in Ethnomusicology, starting July, 2013.