A Showcase of Music Department Talent at National Sawdust (NYC)
Oct 26, 2017
The creative forces of the Music Department’s composition faculty Donnacha Dennehy and Dan Trueman, and Visiting Scholar Iarla Ó Lionáird, come together in a performance this Saturday, October 28, 2017 at 7:30PM at the renowned National Sawdust venue in Brooklyn, NYC. Ó Lionáird will perform Prof. Dennehy’s “Grá agus Bás”, the reimagined sean-nós songs of Prof. Dan Trueman. Created from the oldest …
Profile on Performance Director Michael Pratt in the Princeton Packet
Oct 16, 2017
The Princeton Packet has published a profile on Michael Pratt, the Director of the Program in Performance and conductor of the Princeton University Orchestra, who celebrates his 40th anniversary at the Department this season. The orchestra performs their first concerts of 2017-18 this Friday and Saturday evenings at Richardson Auditorium. Read more
A Festival of the Arts: Feature on the Princeton University Homepage
Oct 10, 2017
“During a four-day Festival of the Arts, Oct. 5-8, Princeton University celebrated the opening of the new Lewis Arts complex with a bonanza of events, open to the public. More than 100 events across arts genres took place in more than 30 venues of every shape and size, from the expansive University Chapel to a …
Music Department Purchases 48 New Steinway Pianos
Oct 2, 2017
by Nick Barberio, Office of Communications Now on Princeton University’s homepage, an article and video story on the acquisition of 48 brand-new Steinway pianos for the Effron Music Building at the Lewis Center for the Arts complex. Through a selection process spanning two years, dozens of new Steinway & Sons pianos have been purchased for the new …
Rudresh Mahanthappa Featured in Downbeat Magazine
Sep 27, 2017
Jazz at Princeton University director Rudresh Mahanthappa has been featured in the November 2017 issue of Downbeat Magazine! Look out for the magazine, hitting newstands next week.
Stephanie Tubiolo Appointed As Assistant Director Of Choirs
Sep 26, 2017
Stephanie Tubiolo is the incoming Assistant Director of Choirs at Princeton University. She spent the past seven years in New Haven, CT, where she worked as a Teaching Artist with the Yale Music in Schools Initiative, eventually serving as its first Postgraduate Fellow. Since 2015, she has developed and directed Morse Chorale, a performance-intensive choir for …
Princeton University Performs Ballet With Rarely Heard Cole Porter Score
Jul 3, 2017
Two years ago, Princeton University music professor Simon Morrison was working on an article in the archives of Yale University when he noticed the original score for a ballet by none other than Cole Porter. Within the Quota, which had libretto, scenery, and costumes by wealthy expatriate artist Gerald Murphy, premiered in Paris in 1923 and …
Rudresh Mahanthappa, Director of Jazz, Wins DownBeat Magazine Critics Poll
Jun 30, 2017
Congratulations to Director of Jazz, Rudresh Mahanthappa, who has again been named a winner in the 2017 DownBeat International Critics Poll in the category of Alto Saxophone. The August issue of DownBeat, which arrives on newsstands in mid July, has features on winning artists as well the complete results for all 62 categories, listing more …
Profile on Prof. Donnacha Dennehy in the Irish Times
Jun 23, 2017
Composition Faculty Donnacha Dennehy has been featured in the Irish Times. An excerpt can be found below. Read the article online, or see the PDF attachment. “I went to Ballyroan Boys’ National School, in Rathfarnham,” says the composer Donnacha Dennehy by way of introduction. The same establishment as the golfer Pádraig Harrington, I point out. Dennehy chuckles. No …
A Festival of the Arts: Celebrating the Opening of Princeton’s New Lewis Arts Complex
Jun 19, 2017
To celebrate the opening of Princeton’s new Lewis Center for the Arts complex, join us for an exciting multi-day Festival of the Arts highlighting the breadth and uniqueness of the arts at Princeton. The Festival will include concerts, plays, readings, dance performances, art exhibitions, multidisciplinary presentations, community workshops and site-specific events presented by the Lewis …
Donnacha Dennehy’s New Opera Awarded Fedora Prize
Jun 6, 2017
Congratulations to Prof. Donnacha Dennehy, whose latest opera, The Second Violinist, was awarded the Fedora’s 2017 Generali Prize for Opera. This prize of €150,000 is given to support future international co-productions. Co-producers for The Second Violinist include The Galway International Arts Festival and The Dublin Theater Festival. Additional performances will take place in Dublin October …