2025 Class Day remarks by key note speaker, Nick DiBerardino ’11
Jun 4, 2025
By: Nick DiBerardino ’11, Provost and Dean of Curtis Institute of Music; Chair of Composition Studies; Director of Curtis New Music Ensemble Hello class of 2025! I’m Nick DiBerardino, class of 2011, and I’m a composer. It’s an honor to be with you all today. It’s inspiring to hear what you’ve all accomplished, and you’re …
2024 Class Day remarks by key note speaker, Molly Bolten ’14
Jun 10, 2024
By Molly Bolten ’14 Good afternoon Princeton Music graduates! Please excuse my hoarse voice—I’ve been shouting over very loud music for the last three days. As Professor Snyder told you, I graduated from Princeton ten years ago with a major in music and a certificate in creative writing… obviously, I did it for the money. …
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen ’15 Returns to Princeton for Groundbreaking Performance in Elgar’s “Dream of Gerontius”
Apr 15, 2024
Interview by Chloe Yutong Yang ’26 On April 19-20, 2024, countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen ’15 will make a triumphant return to his alma mater, Princeton University, for a historic performance as The Angel in Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius. This marks Aryeh’s first time back at Princeton since his graduation in 2015, and he will be …
Brittany Haas (‘09), Princeton’s Fiddler
Mar 15, 2024
Brittany Haas’s ’09 journey at Princeton took many diverse pathways. An Evolutionary Biology Major with a Music Performance Certificate, she navigated student life focusing on primatology, while simultaneously delving into an array of musical genres and cultures. Learn more in our interview with Brittany!
Musicology, with a Twist: Princeton’s Music Cognition Lab
Dec 16, 2022
The Department of Music was pleased to welcome Dr. Elizabeth Margulis to the faculty in the Fall of 2019 as Professor of Music and Director of Graduate Studies (Musicology) to examine the relationship between music and the mind.
What’s Your Earliest Musical Memory? with Princeton Alumni of Classes ’13-’20
Dec 16, 2022
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, we reached out to alumni who were all active members of the Music Department community and asked them to share their earliest musical memory.
Graduate Student Sophie Brady Awarded Top Prize from the American Musicological Society
Dec 7, 2022
The Princeton University Department of Music is proud to congratulate graduate student Sophie Brady, who has been awarded the Paul A. Pisk Prize for her paper “From the Living Room to the Concert Hall: Francis Bebey’s Experimental Collaborations.”
Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa (’14) Is Booked, Blessed, and Back at Princeton
Nov 30, 2022
Tanyaradzwa is like so many Princetonians – ambitious, fiercely intelligent, a true multi-hyphenate. Yet it is her way of walking in abundance that is perhaps her most striking and admirable quality.
PRISM Quartet’s New Album Features Princeton Composers
Dec 13, 2019
The PRISM Quartet‘s latest album, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, takes its name from a new work of the same name by Princeton faculty composer Steve Mackey. The album also includes new works by former graduate student composers Emma O’Halloran and Julia Wolfe. The three Princeton composers, as well as composers Anna Weesner and Kristin Kuster, were commissioned by the PRISM Quartet to write …
Louisa Slosar ’15 Appointed Bassoonist with Berlin Philharmonic Karajan Academy
Jun 17, 2019
Congratulations to Louisa Slosar, Class of 2015, who has won the coveted bassoon position at the Berlin Philharmonic Karajan Academy! At the Academy, she will be mentored by members of the Berlin Philharmonic, and travel with the orchestra as a substitute player. Louisa, a former Music Major, Certificate in Music Performance recipient, and member of the …
Countertenors Anthony Roth Costanzo ’04 & Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen ’15 Nominated for GRAMMY Awards
Dec 7, 2018
Department of Music alumnae Anthony Roth Costanzo ’04 and Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen ’15, both countertenors, have both been recognized in the 61st GRAMMY Awards. Costanzo has been nominated in the “Best Classical Solo Vocal Album” category for his debut album “ARC” (Decca Gold Label), a recording pairing works by George Frideric Handel with works by Philip Glass. …
Music Major Lou Chen ’19 Receives Fisher Award
Nov 27, 2018
Congratulations to Music Major Lou Chen ’19, who has received the Pace Center for Civic Engagement’s A. James Fisher, Jr. Memorial Award! Given in honor of A. James Fisher, Jr. ’36, the award is given each year to a Princeton senior who best exemplifies the qualities for which Mr. Fisher is remembered – an entrepreneurial …
Dasha Koltunyuk ’15, Wins Thousand Islands International Chopin Competition
Sep 23, 2016
Congratulations to Dasha Koltunyuk ‘2015, Marketing & Outreach Manager for the Music Department, who won first place at the Thousand Islands International Piano Competition. First place prize was $2000. Second and third place winners were students from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music. Reflecting on her experience, Dasha shared that for her, “One …