Rudresh Mahanthappa named Best Alto Saxophonist in JazzTimes’ 2017 Expanded Critics’ Poll
Feb 22, 2018
The Anthony H. P. Lee ’79 Director of Jazz at Princeton University, saxophonist and composer Rudresh Mahanthappa has been named “Best Alto Saxophonist” in the JazzTimes 2017 Expanded Critics Poll, published in the March 2018 issue. For the poll, critics were asked to focus on artists’ achievements in 2017. Mahanthappa also came in third in the “Electric/Jazz-Rock/Contemporary …
Barbara White and Juri Seo Receive Fromm Music Foundation Commissions
Dec 11, 2017
Congratulations to Barbara White and Juri Seo, both on the Music Department’s Composition Faculty, who have each received a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University. Other recipients this year are Michael Fiday (Cincinnati, OH); Erin Gee (Somerville, MA); Pierre Jalbert, (Stafford, TX); Tonia Ko, (Lawrence, KS); John Liberatore, (Notre Dame, IN); Scott Lindroth, (Durham, NC); Sky Macklay, …
Music Major Rebecca Singer Awarded Schwarzman Scholarship
Dec 6, 2017
Congratulations to Rebecca Singer, a senior in the Department of Music, who is one of two current Princeton University students to have just been named a Schwarzman Scholar. The Schwarzman Scholarship covers the cost of graduate study and living toward a one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Excerpts from the announcement on Princeton University’s homepage: “For its third class, …
Music Major Shruthi Rajasekar awarded 2018 Marshall Scholarship
Dec 4, 2017
Article written by Denise Valenti, Office of Communications: “Princeton senior and Music Major Shruthi Rajasekar has been named a 2018 Marshall Scholar. The Marshall Scholarship seeks to promote strong relations between the United Kingdom and the United States by offering intellectually distinguished young Americans the opportunity to develop their abilities as future leaders. The scholarship covers the cost of …
Tenebrae Choir, with Gabriel Crouch, Receives GRAMMY Nomination
Nov 28, 2017
The Tenebrae Choir, in which Director of Vocal Activities Gabriel Crouch is a principal singer, has been nominated for their first GRAMMY award! The ensemble’s album Music of the Spheres: Part Songs of the British Isles is nominated in the category of “Best Choral Performance.” Congratulations to Gabriel Crouch and to Tenebrae! Beloved to the Princeton community after sold-out concerts on the …
Pascal Le Boeuf Nominated for GRAMMY Award
Nov 28, 2017
Graduate student composer Pascal Le Boeuf has been nominated for a 2018 GRAMMY award! His composition “Alkaline,” from the new album Imaginist recorded by the Le Boeuf Brothers and the JACK Quartet, has been nominated in the “Best Instrumental Composition” category. Congratulations, Pascal!
Gavin Steingo Awarded Alan Merriam Prize
Nov 2, 2017
Congratulations to Gavin Steingo, our new Assistant Professor of Music, who has been awarded the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Alan Merriam Prize for his book Kwaito’s Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa (The University of Chicago Press). The Alan Merriam Prize, one of the highest honors awarded by the Society for Ethnomusicology, is given to “recognize the …
Juri Seo Awarded Library of Congress’ Koussevitzky Commission
Oct 31, 2017
Assistant Professor of Music Juri Seo is one of six composers awarded a commission from the Library of Congress’ Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation. Established in 1949, the program awards commissions to “established composers who have demonstrated considerable merit through their works.” The Foundation has commissioned some of the most iconic works by the world’s most celebrated composers, including Bartók’s …
Shruthi Rajasekar ’18 Receives Alex Adam ’07 Award
Oct 26, 2017
Shruthi Rajasekar ’18, a Music Composition major pursuing a certificate in Vocal Performance, was one of three recipients of the 2017 Alex Adam ’07 Award administered through the Lewis Center for the Arts. The award provides support to undergraduates who spend a summer pursuing a project that will result in the creation of an original work of art. A …
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 …
Prof. Dan Trueman Awarded 2016 Bessie Award
Nov 2, 2016
Congratulations to Prof. Dan Trueman who has received the 2016 Bessie Award for “Outstanding Musical Composition/Sound Design”! Prof. Trueman was recognized for his contributions to There Might Others,choreographed by Rebecca Lazier, Senior Lecturer in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Dance, premiering earlier this year at New York Live Arts in collaboration with Mobius Percussion and the Music Department’s Edward T. …
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 …