What Actually Happens At An Academic Music Conference?
Feb 1, 2024
Every November, thousands of music theorists and musicologists descend upon the vast ballrooms of America’s metropolitan convention hotels for their annual academic society meeting. This past November, the American Musicological Society (AMS), which celebrates its ninetieth annual meeting in 2024, and Society for Music Theory (SMT) held their joint conference in the Mile-High City of Denver, Colorado.
Get to Know the Music Mentoring Program
Sep 13, 2023
Learn about the Music Mentoring Program and join their welcome event on September 14 from 5:30PM-7:30PM in the Woolworth lobby
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).”
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.
What’s On in the Music Department this Spring?
Nov 7, 2022
Spring 22-23 offers a rich breadth of coursework for the experienced musician and the music-curious alike.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Research Spotlight: Kyle Masson on the Princeton University Homepage
Aug 1, 2019
Now on the Princeton University Homepage: “Research Spotlight with Kyle Masson: Bringing early opera to life” Using the tips of his latex-gloved hands, Kyle Masson carefully turned the pages and examined the notations of a 300-year-old opera manuscript score at the Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi in Venice. Masson, a graduate student in music, had …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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!
Graduate Composers Emma O’Halloran and Alex Dowling Make LP Debut as “Games Violet”
Nov 15, 2016
‘…fascinating pop moments full of strong, haunting, imaginative electronic lines and shadows.’ – Irish Times ‘Combining creative rhythm patterns, choice keys, wailing guitars & whispering harmony duet-rounds; Games Violet are one of the most exciting Philly acts around.’ – Impose Magazine The album was created using synths, guitars, drums, and vocals in the duo’s home …