Friday, Sept. 7, 2012 is Brazilian World Music Day!

Join the Archive of Contemporary Music (ARC) in celebrating Brazilian World Music Day on Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. Resources on popular Brazilian music in all forms have been contributed by participants from around the world, to build what ARC describes as “a free, permanently available, online database of Brazilian recordings and their locations around the […]

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Good Music, for a Good Cause! Saturday 4/21, 7:30pm

Join the Society of Emerging Artists, an orchestra featuring talented musicians from Columbia (including from Columbia Classical Performers), as well as from Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music, and NYU, in a benefit concert for the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. The suggested donation is $5-10. The concert will be held at Holy Trinity Church, […]

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Columbia New Music concert, Sat 4/7, 5pm in Lerner C555

How about celebrating spring with some newly-hatched music? Columbia New Music, in collaboration with Columbia Classical Performers, present a concert of new music by student and faculty composers. The concert is on Sat 4/7, at 5pm, in C555 Lerner Hall. Music will include pieces by Adrian Montufar Herrera, Solomon Hoffman, Tareq Abuissa, Conrad Tao, and […]

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“Ghost in the Instrument” Festival at Columbia, week of 3/19

The Computer Music Center at Columbia University presents a week of lectures, concerts, and workshops, “Ghost in the Instrument: Aspects of Musical Research and Composition“. The event is on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the PRISMA International Forum. All events are FREE and open to the public (registration is required for the software […]

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Congratulations to Yoshiaki Onishi for 2011 Gaudeamus Prize!

Congratulations to Columbian and current Teaching Fellow in the Music Dept. Yoshiaki Onishi on winning the 2011 Gaudeamus Prize, for his composition “Départ dans…”. Details of the award can be seen at this link. Some of his work will also be featured in the upcoming Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York, Jan. 25-28, 2012, presented by Issue […]

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“Silent Music” by Prof. Susan Boynton – Book Release & Panel Discussion

Congratulations to Prof. Susan Boynton on her new book, Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of Eighteenth-Century Spain, published by Oxford University Press (2011). There will be a book release and panel discussion taking place on Monday, October 31, at 6:30pm, in the Skylight Room of the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (at […]

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Concert: Music Hum in a Day – Monday 3/28, 8pm, Miller Theater

Want to traverse 800 years of music history in a single evening? Note this upcoming concert in Miller Theater.  “Music Hum in a Day” is a special concert/lecture written, directed, produced and performed by Columbia students, with a focus on Music Humanities. The performers will include members of Columbia Classical Performers, fourbythree, and the Barnard-Columbia-Juilliard […]

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Upcoming: Columbia Music Scholarship Conference, March 6th

The Columbia Music Scholarship Conference 2010 will be held on March 6th, 2010, in 301 Philosophy, from 9:30am to 5:15pm. The theme of this year’s conference is “Music and Money: Examining Value in Music”. The keynote speaker is Wayne Marshall, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who will speak on “Following the Musical Money across […]

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