Elizabeth Margulis’ “Music and the Narrative Imagination” Project Awarded Funds from University
Aug 12, 2023
The Department of Music is proud to congratulate musicology faculty member and Director of Graduate Studies Elizabeth Margulis, whose forthcoming collaboration with Princeton Neuroscience Institute’s Uri Hasson, Music and the Narrative Imagination, has been awarded funding by the Dean for Research Innovation Fund for Collaborations between Artists and Scientists or Engineers.
Graduate Student Marcel Camprubi Awarded Top Prize from the American Musicological Society
Jun 13, 2023
The Princeton University Department of Music is proud to congratulate graduate student Marcel Camprubi, who has been awarded the Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship for his dissertation “Al-Fārābī’s Lines of Thought: Notations and Histories of Music Theory from Abbāsid Baghdad (762–1055).”
Ruth Ochs Named Honorary Member of the Class of 2023
May 10, 2023
The Department of Music is proud to congratulate Ruth Ochs, conductor of the Princeton University Sinfonia, who has been inducted as an honorary member of the Class of 2023.
Musicology Graduate Students Christopher Parton & Hannah McLaughlin Receive 2023 Teaching Award
Apr 20, 2023
The Department of Music congratulates Musicology students Christopher Parton and Hannah McLaughlin, who were among the 10 winners of this year’s Graduate School Teaching Award in recognition of outstanding undergraduate teaching.
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.”
DANCEUSA.ORG: Olivier Tarpaga Awarded Dance/USA Artist Fellowship
Nov 17, 2022
Director of African Music Ensembles Olivier Tarpaga is one of 30 artists across the United States to be selected as a 2022 Dance/USA Artist Fellow.
Jazz Director Rudresh Mahanthappa DownBeat Critics Poll Winner
Jul 14, 2021
Congratulations to Director of Jazz, Rudresh Mahanthappa, who has again been selected the Alto Saxophone winner in the DownBeat International Critics Poll. The August issue of DownBeat, which arrives on newsstands in mid July, includes features on the winning artists as well the complete results for all of the categories, listing hundreds of artists who …
Donnacha Dennehy Awarded 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship
Apr 29, 2021
Congratulations to Prof. Donnacha Dennehy, recipient of a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship! Prof. Dennehy is one of 184 recipients, chosen from a pool of almost 3,000 applicant scholars, artists, writers, and scientists, selected for his impressive prior achievement and exceptional promise. Prof. Dennehy is one of six Princeton faculty members, and three graduate students, to receive …
Student Awards: Maya Stepansky & Pascal Le Boeuf
May 5, 2020
Congratulations to sophomore drummer Maya Stepansky and graduate student composer Pascal Le Boeuf: Maya was selected as the Undergraduate College Winner of DownBeat Magazine’s 43rd Annual Student Awards in the Blues/Pop/Rock Soloist category. The complete list of winners will be published in the publication’s June issue. An excerpt from the announcement reads: “Maya Stepansky, winner of the …
Anna Pidgorna: Juno Award Nomination
Jan 28, 2020
Congratulations to graduate student composer Anna Pidgorna, whose composition is featured on an album just nominated for a 2020 Juno Award — the Canadian equivalent of the Grammy Awards. Her work, “The Child, Bringer of Light” is included on violist Marina Thibeault’s album “Elles,” which is nominated for Classical Album of the Year in the Solo …
Announcing the 2019-2020 Concerto Competition Winners
Jan 23, 2020
Congratulations to the winners of the 2019-2020 Princeton University Orchestra Concerto Competition: Violinists Fumika Mizuno ’21: Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto Op. 14 Hana Mundiya ’20: W.A. Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216 Vocalist Allison Spann ’20: Excerpt from David del Tredici’s Final Alice Pianist Vian Wagatsuma ’23: W. A. Mozart’s Piano …
Ruth Ochs Receives Community Engagement Award
Jan 21, 2020
by Emily Eyestone, Pace Center for Civic EngagementReposted from the John H. Pace Jr ’39 Center for Civic Engagement For Ruth Ochs, music has always been a connective force; a force she has used to build community on an off Princeton’s campus. In recognition of this work, Dr. Ochs, conductor of the Princeton University Sinfonia, associate …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Professor Juri Seo Receives Goethe Award
Apr 8, 2019
Princeton University faculty composer Juri Seo has been awarded the 2019 Goethe Award, given by the Goethe Institut at the Tongyeong International Music Festival. Professor Seo’s composition Respiri – in memory of Jonathan Harvey was selected as the most convincing work at the festival’s Asian Composers Showcase, and the prize includes a monetary award, a commission for a new …
Emma O’Halloran Winner of Beth Morrison Projects: Next Generation
Feb 22, 2019
Congratulations to composition graduate student Emma O’Halloran, who has been named the winner of the Beth Morrison Projects: Next Generation award! Emma will be commissioned to write an evening-length operatic work to be developed, premiered, and toured by Beth Morrison Projects over the coming seasons. BMP: Next Generation is a new initiative to discover the next generation …
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 …
John Hoffmeyer, Certificate Student, Awarded Rhodes Scholarship
Nov 19, 2018
Congratulations to John Hoffmeyer, a Department Certificate Student in Piano Performance, who is one of three Princeton students to be awarded the Rhodes Scholarship! Excerpt from the Office of Communications: Hoffmeyer, of Florence, South Carolina, is majoring in comparative literature and pursuing certificates in Chinese language and culture and music performance (piano). At Oxford, he plans to pursue the …
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade Selected for Glyndebourne: Balancing the Score Program
Nov 9, 2018
Graduate composer Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade has been selected as one of the first four participants in Balancing the Score: a new program at Glyndebourne created to help address the under-representation of female composers in classical music. The program allows four female composers to spend two years immersed in life at Glyndebourne, where they will be introduced to commissioning opportunities, attend rehearsals …
Iarla Ó Lionáird Wins Gold at New York Radio Festival 2018
Jul 13, 2018
The Athena Media radio episode Vocal Chords: ‘Iarla Ó Lionáird in conversation with Peggy Seeger’ has won Gold in the Biography/Profile category at the New York Radio Festival 2018. The series explores the journey of the human voice in song, as Global Scholar Ó Lionáird meets and records with outstanding singers and discovers their motivation, influences and their life’s relationship with …
Michael Pratt named honorary member of Royal College of Music
Mar 19, 2018
Michael Pratt, conductor of the Princeton University Orchestra and director of the Program in Musical Performance, has been named an honorary member of the Royal College of Music in London. Read more