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Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · 4d

On Thursday, October 16th, Professor Joseph Straus presents a colloquium on his recent research, “Classical Music’s Jewish Problem,” on antisemitism in Western Classical Music (1850-1945) with a particular focus on works of Wagner, Strauss, Webern, and Stravinsky.

Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations to recent DMA alumnus and clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson, whose album "Forgotten Sounds" (the world-premiere recording of Loeffler’s Octet) has been nominated for the Gramophone Classical Music Award — one of the highest honors in the classical music industry!

Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · 7d

On Thursday, October 9th at 1pm, violinist and faculty member Rolf Schulte performs in Elebash Hall with pianist Joseph Liccardo as part of the Music in Midtown series. The program features Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas Op. 23 & Op. 24, and Schönberg’s Herzgewächse, Op. 20 (arr. for violin and piano).

Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · 11d

On Friday, October 3rd at 7:30pm, faculty member Thomas Sauer presents a solo piano recital in Elebash Hall, featuring: Mozart’s Piano Sonata in F Major, three études by Abrahamsen, Ligeti, and Chin, Schumann’s Nachtstücke, and Chopin’s Two Nocturnes, Op. 62 and the Polonaise-Fantaisie.

Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Emerita Tania León, who was awarded the William Schuman Award last night! In celebration of this honor the William Schuman Award Concert was held at Miller Theatre, featuring pianist Han Chen and violist Martine Kinsella Thomas from the GC DMA Program.

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Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · 22d

[Ravel at 150] On Thursday, September 25th at 1pm and 7pm, pianist Sylvia Kahan is joined by artists from the DMA Program in Performance for the Music in Midtown series in Elebash Hall, in a sesquicentennial celebration of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937).
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Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Graduate Center Music Department’s Music in Midtown concert series begins this month! Music in Midtown is a series of lunchtime concerts featuring the program's renowned faculty, alumni and outstanding performers selected from students in the DMA in Performance, as well as noted guest artists.

Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · Aug 24

On Friday, August 29th at 6pm, DMA pianist Joseph Vaz performs a recital in Elebash Hall. The program will feature solo piano works by Ed Bland, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Akin Euba, Olivier Messiaen, Art Tatum, Alexander Scriabin, and Igor Stravinsky.

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · Jul 29

Congratulations to Ph.D. students Laura Suárez Rodríguez and Julio E. Quiñones Santiago, who have been awarded prestigious Crossing Latinidades Fellowships for 2025–26! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/two-gra... @cunygcmusic.bsky.social

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Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · Jul 21

Congratulations to pianist and alumnus Nicolas Namoradze on his residency at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland! He will premiere Neuropiano and the Neurorecital, a multidisciplinary collaboration that explores a pianist’s brain activity during performance using Neuroscape’s Glass Brain technology.

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Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · Jun 27

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Madison Schindele (musicology), who has been named one of three CUNY Graduate Center doctoral students awarded Fulbright research fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year! Read more here: www.gc.cuny.edu/news/three-g...

Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · May 18

On Friday, May 23rd at 6pm, DMA pianist Elżbieta Bilicka performs in Elebash Hall. Featured on this recital are Christopher Theofanidis's Birichino, Mozart's Sonata in F Major, K.280, Fauré's Nocturne No. 2 in B Major, Szymanowski's Prelude No. 1 in B minor, and Chopin's Sonata No. 3 in B minor.

Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · May 14

On Monday, May 19th at 6pm, DMA cellist Aaron Wolff performs with pianist Ryan Jung in Elebash Recital Hall. The program will feature Elliot Carter’s Sonata for Cello and Piano, César Franck’s Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano, and Olli Mustonen’s Cello Sonata (2006).

Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · May 12

On Friday, May 16th at 6pm, DMA violinist Tiffany Chang performs in Elebash Hall with pianist Huan Li, featuring Benjamin Britten's Suite for Violin and Piano, Olivier Messiaen's Thème et Variations, Sergei Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Major, and Paul Wiancko's X Suite for Solo Violin.

Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · May 7

On Monday, May 12th at 6pm, mezzo-soprano Patrice Eaton of the DMA Performance program performs in Elebash Recital Hall with pianist Jason Wirth. The program will feature works by Brittney Elizabeth Boykin, Henri Duparc, Ricky Ian Gordon, George Frideric Handel, and Gustav Mahler.

Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · May 7

On Friday, May 9th at 8pm in Elebash Recital Hall, the New Sounds on Fifth Ensemble (Lora Al-Ahmad, Tiffany Chang, Amber Evans, Meera Gudipati, and Aaron Wolff from the GC DMA Performance program) will perform works by GC composers Teté Leguía, Julio Quiñones, Lila Wildy Quillin, and Nicholas Tran.

Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · May 6

On Friday, May 9th at 6pm, soprano Amber Evans of the DMA Performance program performs in Elebash Recital Hall, featuring works by Hildegard von Bingen, Elizabeth Gartman, Unsuk Chin, Kaija Saariaho, Jodie O’Regan, and Lili Boulanger.
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Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · May 4

On Thursday, May 8th at 1pm, artists in the Graduate Center’s D.M.A. Program perform in chamber ensembles for the Music in Midtown series in Elebash Hall. The program will feature chamber works by Antonín Dvořák, David Leisner, Gustav Mahler, and Lila Wildy Quillin.

Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · Apr 30

On Monday, May 5th at 6pm, DMA violinist Samuel Andonian performs in Elebash Recital Hall with pianist Jinhee Park. The program will include Aurora (2025) by Giancarlo Latta, and sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, and Eugène Ysaÿe.

Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · Apr 28

On Friday, May 2nd at 6pm, members of the Ph.D. Program in Music Theory present a program of solo and chamber works in Elebash Hall. Performers include: Tlacaélel Cáceres, Hang Ki Choi, Rebecca Moranis, Nathan Pell, Vlad Praskurnin, Jiyeoung Sim, Joseph Vaz, and Tengyue Zhang.

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Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · Apr 25

An evening of guitar-quartet music from this century will be presented on Wednesday, April 30th at 7:30pm in Segal Theatre, featuring the Nuntempe Guitar Ensamble performing works by GC composers Santiago Beis, Evan Cartwright, Teté Leguía, Georg Friedrich Haas, Cecilia Pereya, and Zachary Reid.

Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · Apr 23

On Monday, April 28th at 6pm, DMA flutist Meera Gudipati performs a program on flute and bansuri in Elebash Recital Hall. The recital will feature traditional Indian music, Les Folies d’Espagne by Marin Marais, Jhula Jhule by Reena Esmail, and Piya Ki’s Dance by Meera Gudipati.

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Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · Apr 22

On Friday, April 25th at 6pm, DMA cellist Hannah Rubin performs in Elebash Recital Hall. The program will feature Benjamin Britten’s Suite No. 3 for solo cello, Andrea Casarrubios’ Seven: Song of Isolation, and Franz Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata with pianist Luis Ortiz.

Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · Apr 21

On Thursday, April 24th at 1pm, artists in the Graduate Center’s DMA Program perform in chamber ensembles for the Music in Midtown series in Elebash Hall. This program will feature Mendelssohn’s String Octet in E-flat Major, the Ravel Piano Trio in a minor, and Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge, Op.133.

Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social · Apr 16

On Monday, April 21st at 6pm, DMA pianist Ryan Jung performs a recital in Elebash Hall, featuring a program of fantasies: Alexander Scriabin's Fantasy in b minor, Schumann's Fantasy in C Major, Ryan Jung's "pastiche fantastiche" (2025), and Schubert's Fantasy for Four Hands, D.940 (with Fifi Zhang).