On Sunday, March 6 at 3:30pm, two Columbia College alumni, Victoria Wolf Lewis (CC'14) and Nathan Chan (CC'15) will give a recital of Russian chamber music, with Victoia Wolf Lewis playing the violin, Nathan Chan playing cello, and Eve Wolf playing piano. The afternoon will include works by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, and will take place at Teacher's College in the Milbank Chapel (525 West 120th Street).

Daniel Lazour, a recent graduate of Columbia College who finished his degree in music this past December, is among the recipients of the Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater, administered by the Academy of Arts and Letters, for the musical We Live in Cairo, which he wrote with his brother, Patrick Lazour. We Live in Cairo "tells the story of six student revolutionaries coming of age in today's Middle East, who confront the past in their search for freedom. Young men and women, armed with laptops and cameras, guitars and spray paint cans, inspire millions to take to the streets of Cairo to overthrow their president, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak."

For more information, please see Playbill's announcement: www.playbill.com/article/hadestown-a-modern-day-twist-on-the-orpheus-story-among-winners-of-richard-rodgers-award-com-341241 Congratulations, Daniel!

Congratulations to Jenny Payne (BC 2016), a neuroscience and ethnomusicology major, for being awarded the prestigious Luce Scholarship! The Luce Scholars Program provides professional placement, in addition to language study and stipends, in Asia for American college seniors, graduate students, and young professionals. The program's goal is to "enhance the understanding of Asia among potential leaders in American society." Jenny gave an interview to the Columbia Spectator, in which she outlines her personal and professional journey and goals: read it here.

The second concert in the new Columbia Sounds series at the Global Center | Paris wil be presented by Ensemble Pamplemousse, a composer/performer collective founded in 2003. Two members of the Ensemble, Natacha Diels and Bryan Jacobs, hold the DMA in Composition from Columbia University. The Ensemble's European tour is announced in this trailer.

Ensemble Pamplemousse: This is the Uplifting Part

Grande Salle, Reid Hall, 4, Rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris, March 15, 2016, 8 pm (free; reservation required)

Prof. Ellie Hisama (Music Theory/Historical Musicology) will speak on "Feminist Critical Listening" in the IRWAGS 2016 "Feminist to the Core" lecture series, on Wednesday March 2, at 12pm, in 754 Schermerhorn Extension.

Click the poster image for a full-sized version.

Columbia Music Scholarship Conference (CMSC) 2016

The eleventh annual Columbia Music Scholarship Conference (CMSC) will be held at Columbia University on Saturday, February 27, 2016.

CMSC is a conference organized and staffed by the graduate students of the Department of Music at Columbia University.

Keynote Speaker
Professor Alexander Rehding (Harvard University)

"Piano, Monochord, Siren: Studying Music 1999 – 1518 – 1834"

Full details at the conference website!

An American Menagerie

Deborah Bradley-Kramer and SPEAKmusic

With:

Emi Ohi Resnick, Joseph Morag, Ellie Kirk, Kaitlin Pet, Sophia Sun, Gabrielle Chou, Chason Goldschmitz, Ryan Kennedy, Dalit Warshaw, Amy Kang, Andrea Kleesattel, Andrew Goldman

Roerich Museum
Thursday, March 3, 7:30 PM

Featuring music of:
Jonathan Kramer,  Samuel Barber, Chason Goldschmitz,  George Gershwin, Paul Schoenfield, Louis Gruenberg

And . . . . .  SPEAKmusic tours Poland!

An American Menagerie
March 11-19

Performing at the Musica Moderna Festival (Lodz), Chopin University (Warsaw), National Forum of Music (Wroclaw), and POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Warsaw)

Featuring European premieres by Columbia Composers:  Ashkan Behzadi, William Dougherty, Christopher Trapani

Matthew Morrison (Ph.D, Historical Musicology, 2014) has been appointed a tenure-track Assistant Professor, Recorded Sound in the Tisch School of the Arts (Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) at New York University. Since 2014 he has been an Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow in the Institute. Congratulations Matthew!

Check out Matthew's website here: madmoimpresario.com/