Iarla Ó Lionáird Receives RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Award
Oct 28, 2019
Congratulations to Iarla Ó Lionáird, Global Scholar and Visiting Lecturer in Music and the Humanities, who was awarded Best Folk Singer by the 2019 RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards. The awards offer support and recognition to Irish folk musicians and an opportunity to showcase their work on a national platform while celebrating the historical and cultural significance the music holds in Ireland. Iarla Ó Lionáird …
Book Announcement: Prof. Simon Morrison
Aug 27, 2019
Congratulations to Prof. Simon Morrison, whose “incredibly rich” (The New York Times) history of the Bolshoi Ballet, Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today, has now been released in a revised French edition as a Belfond publication. Simultaneously, the second edition of Prof. Morrison’s book Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement has …
Peter Westergaard and Music Performance at Princeton
Aug 23, 2019
Recently, we witnessed the sad passing of Peter Talbot Westergaard — Princeton’s William Shubael Conant Professor of Music, Emeritus — at age 88. He was the most influential musical artist of my life, and my close friend. My purpose here is to share some tales of the “old days”, when the Music Department was a …
Pascal Le Boeuf & Yihan Chen Awarded Copland House Residency Awards
Aug 8, 2019
Composition graduate students Pascal Le Boeuf and Yihan Chen are two of twelve composers selected to receive this year’s coveted Copland House Residency Awards. These all-expenses-paid, short-term stays at Aaron Copland’s National Historic Landmark home in New York’s Lower Hudson Valley provide composers with the opportunity to focus undisturbed on their creative work. Copland called this inspiring, rustic …
Gemma Peacocke, Shelley Washington, and Emma O’Halloran at National Sawdust
Aug 6, 2019
Three Department of Music graduate students — composition students Gemma Peacocke, Shelley Washington, and recent graduate Emma O’Halloran — will be in residence at the National Sawdust arts institution in Brooklyn, NY for the 2019/20 season, as part of their Kinds of Kings composer collective. The residency will include four concerts as well as professional development opportunities for early …
Glee Club Members Sing with Tenebrae Choir
Jul 25, 2019
For an aspiring musician, few experiences are more unforgettable than performing alongside world-class professionals. Four lucky Princeton University Glee Club members — Madeline Kushan ’20, Mariana Corichi Gomez ’21, Sergei Tugarinov ’19, and Julius Foo ’21 — have recently had the chance to do just that in a new collaboration between the Glee Club and the renowned Tenebrae Choir. …
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 …
Michael Pratt Receives President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching
Jun 4, 2019
Full story by Karin Dienst, Office of Communications, available here. Michael Pratt, conductor of the Princeton University Orchestra and director of the Program in Music Performance, is one of four recipients of this year’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. Awarded at the Commencement ceremonies, this recognition was established in 1991 through a gift by Princeton alumni Lloyd Cotsen of the Class …
Two premieres in LA
May 31, 2019
Two Department of Music affiliated composers will have their works premiered this weekend as part of the LA Philharmonic’s Noon to Midnight program: Professor Donnacha Dennehy’s new work commissioned by the LA Philharmonic, Overcasting, will be conducted by John Adams in the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Our Edward T. Cone Performers-in-Residence, Sō Percussion, will present a program in …
Exciting Musicology Student News!
May 1, 2019
It is an exciting time for students in our musicology graduate program, with several recent notable accomplishments! The Department extends proud congratulations to: Sheryl Chow, recipient of the American Musicological Society’s Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship Jane Hines, recipient of a Fulbright scholarship for dissertation research in Austria, hosted at the University of Vienna Nate …
Jeff Snyder Featured in Princeton Echo
Apr 12, 2019
Check out this cover story on Jeff Snyder, Director of Electronic Music and the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (“PLOrk”) in this month’s issue of Princeton Echo! PLOrk presents its annual, free concert on Friday, April 20 at 8PM in Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall in a program that features electronically processed tap dance, live-coded orchestral sounds, trombones equipped with custom electronics to provide …
Professor Simon Morrison Inaugurates TLS Grace Notes Series
Mar 22, 2019
Simon Morrison, Professor of Music and Slavic Languages and Literatures, has authored the first article in The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Grace Notes series. This new TLS Online series celebrates pioneering composers and musicians, and assess the enduring impact of their work. Professor Morrison’s article, “Tchaikovsky: Polestar of the music of the future,” considers the mix of conservatism and …
Announcing: Effron Music Building
Mar 12, 2019
The New Music Building at the Lewis Arts Complex has officially been renamed the Effron Music Building. The three-story building includes a two-story, 3,500-square-foot, acoustically isolated Lee Rehearsal Room with soaring 30-foot ceilings and equipment for professional-quality audio recordings. An 800-square-foot jazz studies studio is one of several specialized teaching facilities in the Effron Music Building. A large number …
Announcing New Cultural Exchange: Imola Piano Academy/Legacy Arts International
Feb 21, 2019
International Cultural Exchange New Cultural Exchange Initiative Focusing on Pianists Linking Princeton University Department of Music, The Imola Piano Academy, and Legacy Arts International In March 2019, the Princeton University Department of Music and the Imola Piano Academy, brought together by the Princeton, NJ-based Legacy Arts International, launch a cultural exchange that unites one of the hubs …
Announcing Inaugural Princeton University Jazz Festival
Feb 1, 2019
Jazz at Princeton University presents the inaugural Princeton University Jazz Festival on Saturday, April 13, 2019. The world’s newest jazz festival, a day-long, free, outdoor lineup of today’s top jazz stars coming together in exciting formations and alongside Princeton University’s exceptional student jazz ensembles, will take place 12PM-6:30PM on Alexander Beach, outside Richardson Auditorium on the Princeton University …
Alex Laurenzi ’20 Places Second in 2019 Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition
Jan 9, 2019
Congratulations to Alex Laurenzi ’20, who won second prize in the jazz category of the 2019 Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition. Alex is a member of both the Jazz Small Group I, and the Creative Large Ensemble. The Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition started in 2010 as a way to identify the next generation of great clarinetists …
Composer Juri Seo’s Lost Songs Find Their Voices in Princeton
Jan 2, 2019
Published by Susan Van Dongen / U.S. 1 News From a profile in U.S.1 News: In the notes for her newest composition “Lost Songs,” Juri Seo, the composer and Princeton University composition faculty member writes, “We live in cycles, with birth and death being the primary conditions of our existence. The simple act of breathing encapsulates …
Jeff Snyder’s Album on Pop Matters’ “20 Best Americana Albums of 2018”
Dec 14, 2018
Jeff Snyder’s album, “The Best of Your Lies” has been included in Pop Matter’s “20 Best American Albums of 2018.” The album features many Princeton-affiliated individuals, including Annika Socolofsky, Mike Mulshine, Pascal Le Boeuf, Dan Trueman, Cleek Schrey, Henry Valoris, Pamela Stein-Lynde, Noah Fishman, Jeffrey Kuan, Caroline Shaw, Ruth Ochs, and Quinn Collins, as well as …
Two Premieres Last Weekend
Dec 4, 2018
December 1-2, 2018 was a big weekend for composition at the Department of Music, holding two world premiere performances. Faculty composer Donnacha Dennehy‘s Strange Folk was premiered by Quartet 212 (consisting of principal members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) as part of the Opening Celebration of Gustavo Dudamel’s residency at Princeton University Concerts*. Graduate student Natalie Dietterich saw the premiere of light, beloved, a …
Jeff Snyder Releases Three New Albums
Nov 6, 2018
It is an exciting fall season for our Director of Electronic Music and the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, Jeff Snyder. This Friday, November 9, Snyder will release “Concerning the Nature of Things.” This new album of original compositions blends influences from medieval polyphony, algorithmically-generated Brazilian rhythms, and experimental noise music and features unusual electronic instruments that Snyder invented …
Elizabeth Margulis to Join Faculty in Fall 2019
Oct 26, 2018
The Princeton University Department of Music is thrilled to announce the addition of Elizabeth Margulis to the faculty beginning Fall 2019. Professor Margulis, currently a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Music Cognition Lab at the University of Arkansas, is renowned for her fusion of music and cognitive science. Her contributions to this exciting field …
Princeton Musicians Come Together in New Record
Oct 22, 2018
Underwolf Records, co-directed by Princeton University graduate composers Noah Kaplan and Chris Douthitt, as well as Princeton Sound Kitchen performer Rosie Kaplan, has released a new album. “Rauschenberg Was Weeping” includes works by Rinde Eckert (frequent visiting lecturer in the Department of Music and the Lewis Center for the Arts) and graduate composer Quinn Collins, …
Graduate Composer Troy Herion Writes Film Score for “306 Hollywood”
Sep 20, 2018
Graduate composer Troy Herion has written the film score for 306 HOLLYWOOD which premiered opening night at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and has been featured in over thirty-five other film festivals. Already winner of numerous prizes, including the Emerging International Filmmakers at Hot Docs, Grand Jury Prize at the Kansas City Film Festival, Award of Distinction …
Jazz at Princeton University Honored in Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll
Jul 16, 2018
Congratulations to Director of Jazz Rudresh Mahanthappa and Jazz Piano instructor Kris Davis, who have both been recognized in this year’s Downbeat Magazine’s International Critics’ Poll awards! Mahanthappa won Alto Saxophonist of the Year for the seventh time in the last eight years. Davis was a winner in the Rising Star: Jazz Artist category. For a full list of …