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Ph.D. Recipients and Their Theses: Composition Ethnomusicology Historical Musicology |
Kathryn Andersen
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Graduate Student Awards: The Department’s Oscar S. Schafer Award is given to students “who have demonstrated unusual ability and enthusiasm in their teaching of introductory courses, which are designed to lead students to a growing and life-long love of music.” This year’s recipients are Aaron Berkowitz and Ellen Exner. In addition to the Schafer Award, Exner received a Richard F. French Prize Fellowship to conduct dissertation research in the archives and libraries in Dresden and Berlin. Richard F. French Prize Fellowships Emily Ansari received a French Prize to conduct primary source interviews and archival research in Boston, New York City, and at Yale. Ryan Banagale received a French Prize to pursue research in the George and Ira Gershwin Collection at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Matthew Clayton received a French Prize to travel to Philadelphia, Boston, New York City, Baltimore and Los Angeles to conduct research on M-Base, a group of Brooklyn-based jazz musicians in the 1980s. Brigid Cohen received a French Prize to interview Stefan Wolpe’s daughter in London and to conduct archival research on Wolpe at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Switzerland. Louis Epstein received a French Prize to study German language at the Goethe Institute and conduct research in Germany; and to research musicians who participated in the Resistance during WWII in Paris libraries. Glenda Goodman received a French Prize to pursue ethnographical research on musical institutions in both New York City and Wyoming. Robert Hasegawa received a French Prize for dissertation work in the Harvard electronic music studios. Michael Heller received a French Prize to study French language and conduct jazz research in Paris. Ulrich Kreppein received a French Prize for travel within Germany to meet with several composers Rowland Moseley received a French Prize for German language study at the Goethe Institute in Berlin. Adam Roberts received a French Prize for German language study at Harvard Matthias Roeder received a French Prize to travel to Berlin to conduct primary source research relative to his dissertation, and to attend a conference in Zurich. Anna Zayarunznaya received a French Prize to travel to Berkeley, California for pre-dissertation research. John Knowles Paine Fellowships Corinna Campbell received a Paine Fellowship to work with a Businenge folkloric music and dance troupe based in Suriname. Jean Francois Charles received a Paine Fellowship to travel to Paris to work with dance movement analyst J. Challet-Haas and conduct pre-dissertation research on using dance in music performance and composition Ashley Fure received a Paine Fellowship for travel to a Canadian New Music Festival and to collaborate in Los Angeles on an interactive sound-space installation. Marc Gidal received a Paine Fellowship to conduct research on the music of Umbanda religious practices in southern Brazil. Mary Greitzer received a Paine Fellowship to conduct a project at University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Jose Luis Hurtado received a Paine Fellowship to conduct research on electronic music, and study Italian language in Mexico. Sheryl Kaskowitz received a Paine Fellowship to conduct archival research at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Katherine Lee received a Paine Fellowship for travel to South Korea to research the role of Korean drumming during the South Korean democratization movement in the 1980s Drew Massey received a Paine Fellowship for travel to New Haven, Connecticut, and Southampton, Massachusetts Evan MacCarthy received a Paine Fellowship and a Ferdinand Gordon & Elizabeth Hunter Morrill Graduate Fellowship to conduct research in archives in Moderna and Florence, Italy, and in Berlin. John McKay received a Paine Fellowship to conduct original source research on 17th-century music in the Harvard libraries. Alexandra Monchick received a Paine Fellowship to study German language at the Deutsche Sommerschule. Karola Obermueller received a Paine Fellowship to travel to Germany for rehearsals and the premiere of her opera, Dunkelrot. Mariam Nazarian received a Paine Fellowship to study French language at Princeton University. Andrew Robbie received a Paine Fellowship and a Ferdinand Gordon & Elizabeth Hunter Morrill Graduate Fellowship to study Italian language in Florence, present a paper in York, England and conduct dissertation research in the U.K. Dominique Schafer received a Paine Fellowship to attend the June in Buffalo Festival and to conduct research at the Paul Sacher archive. Meredith Schweig received a Paine Fellowship for language study and pre-dissertation research in Taipei, Taiwan. David Sullivan received a Paine Fellowship to conduct research in the Harvard libraries. Bert Van Herck received a Paine Fellowship to travel to the June in Buffalo Festival, participate in the Composer’s Conference in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and attend a New Music Festival in Canada Gabrielle Vanoni received a Paine Fellowship to study composition in Canada and Norway. Tolga Yayalar received a Paine Fellowship to attend the Acanthes Festival, where his piece “Four Imaginary Spaces” will be performed. The Harry and Marjorie Ann Slim Memorial Fund Gina Rivera received a Slim Memorial Fund award for a year of research and writing on music performance in the French Enlightenment, both in Paris and at Harvard. Ferdinand Gordon & Elizabeth Hunter Morrill Graduate Fellowships Davide Ceriani received a Morrill Graduate Fellowship to conduct dissertation research in Rome, Milan, New York City, and at Princeton University. Frank Lehman received a Morrill Graduate Fellowship to support language and opera studies in Florence. Thomas Lin received a Morrill Graduate Fellowship to study at the Middlebury Italian Language Program. Matthew Mugmon received a Morrill Graduate Fellowship for Italian language study in Florence and to do research on Ambrosian chant in several Italian cities. Sasha Siem received a Morrill Graduate Fellowship to research Ambrosian melodiae in Italy. Hillary Zipper received a Morrill Graduate Fellowship to conduct research in Italy. Nino and Lea Pirotta Graduate Research Fund William Bares received a Pirotta Graduate Research Fund award to conduct dissertation research on European jazz in Oslo, Norway. University Composition Prizes: Graduate student Jose Luis Hurtado received the John Green Fellowship for his work. This award was established by friends and family of the late John Green ’28 in support of excellence in musical composition. It is made annually to an undergraduate or graduate student composer. The George Arthur Knight Prize was awarded to graduate student Ashley Fure for her work, Susurrus. Concentrator Matthew Mendez received the Hugh F. MacColl Prize for his composition, Big Mac Aesthetic. Graduate student Bert Van Herck received the Adelbert Sprague Prize for his composition, Nessuno Sentiva PhD candidate Nicholas Vines received the Francis Boott Prize for his composition, Elegy III. Graduate student Adam Roberts received a Bohemians Prize for his work, Sarah’s Prism. Undergraduate awards: Kurt Crowley (AB ’07) received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to conduct research in Punjab, India on Sikh tradition. Music Students Honored: Recipients of GSAS Fellowships are David Trippett (Sheldon), Marc Gidal (Sheldon), Peter Gilbert (Whiting Dissertation Completion Fellowship), Robert Hasegawa (Dissertation Completion Fellowship), William Bares (Dissertation Completion Fellowship), Matthew Clayton (Dissertation Completion Fellowship), Andrea Bohlman (Graduate Society Summer Fellowship), Danny Mekonnen (Graduate Society Summer Fellowship), Davide Ceriani (GSAS Merit Term Time Fellowship), Sofia Becerra-Licha (Summer School Tuition Waiver) and Torbjorn Ottersen (Harvard Summer School Tuition Waiver). In addition to Music Department awards, Alexandra Monchick was awarded the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Brigid Cohen was awarded the AMS 50 Award; David Trippett was awarded a CES summer fellowship, and Adam Roberts was awarded an outside fellowship from the Beebee Foundation. Derek Bok Distinguished Teaching Awards for this past fall were given to music graduate students and associates Aaron Berkowitz, Brigid Cohen, Ashley Fure, Jose-Luis Hurtado, Robert Merfeld, and Jonathan Yoken. |
Papers, Publications, & Performances 2006-2007 Aaron Berkowitz’s solo piano piece "Tony said he saw birds flying" was played in Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall by the pianist Jonathan Fisher on March 10. Berkowitz also presented “Generativity in Music: An fMRI Study of Musical Improvisation” at the conference Language and Music as Cognitive Systems at Cambridge, England. Jean Francois Charles gave lectures at the Sibelius Academy in Finland in March. He taught spectral sound processing in real time within the Max/MSP/Jitter environment and other topics related to his current work. On December 16 several music graduate students—Matthew Clayton, Mariam Nazarian, Jean-Francois Charles,Danny Mekonnen, Michael Heller and Marc Gidal—performed in the Dudley House jazz band’s fall concert on campus. The concert ranged from experimental jazz to traditional gospel to Ethio-jazz to klezmer-junk to big band works by Ellington, Oliver Nelson, Mongo Santamaria, and Kenny Garrett. Compositions and arrangements by Heller, Mekonnen and Charles were performed. In May, the band’s spring concert featured nine graduate students and was directed by Marc Gidal. Two of Michael Heller's compositions were performed including a piece for jazz combo and string quartet. Brigid Cohen delivered a paper at the Society for American Music in Pittsburgh in March. She she was awarded an honorary Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation-year Fellowship. Additionally, Cohen accepted the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University. Marc Gidal received a Jorge Paulo Lemann Fellowship to support his research on religious music in southern Brazil. In February he presented a paper about Álta Voz, a consortium of Latin American composers of which Harvard graduate student José Luis Hurtado is a founding member, at the annual conference of the Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association. Mary Greitzer gave a paper, "Becoming Bach, Blaspheming Bach: Hearing, Performing, and Analyzing Ysaye's Obsession for Solo Violin" at the 9th Feminist Theory and Music conference in spring 2007. José Luis Hurtado’s compositions received performances in Japan, Mexico, The Juilliard School and The University of Nevada, where he also lectured. At the Morelia International Festival of Contemporary Music, ICE and Tony Arnold performed Hurtado’s Tres acompañamientos ligeros para una voz espontánea for cello, percussion, and soprano. Sheryl Kaskowitz and Marc Gidal were part of a panel presentation on musical communities at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) in Hawaii this past November. Jonathan Kregor presented papers at the International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music and at the national meetings of the Royal Musical Association and the American Musicological Society. Hannah Lash won honorable mention in the BMI women’s music commission competition. At the fall 2006 SEM conference in Honolulu, Katherine Lee was elected a member of the board for the Association for Korean Music Research. Mariam Nazarian’s performances included Mozart’s Concerto in E-flat Major, K. 482 (with own cadenzas) with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra in March, 2007, and a solo recital in Paine Hall in April. The Ensemble Phorminx (Germany) premiered Karola Obermueller’s Red Lake Fields 2 at Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt and reflejos distantes (commissioned by the ensemble) for bass flute, bass clarinet, violin and violoncello in Tübingen and Darmstadt. The world premiere of Kohlenmonoxyd Nachtstück (after the libretto of the same name) by Gabriele Strassmann took place at the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Congress at St. Sebald in Nuremberg. Additionally, The Juventas Ensemble performed her les sables mouvants in Cambridge and Boston; herbut one adagio smile still lingers received its German premiere in March; and June saw the US premiere of helical for chamber orchestra in NYC by North/South Consonance. Obermueller received a fellowship for 2006–2008 in the Akademie Musiktheater heute from Deutsche Bank Stiftung and was awarded a Fromm Music Foundation Commission for a piece for bass clarinet and piano. She also received the Darmstadt Music Prize 2006. Andrew Robbie's article "Sampling Haraway, Hunting Björk: Locating A Cyborg Subjectivity" appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Repercussions. He presented papers on Backstreet Boys music videos at conferences in New York in May and in York in July. Jesse Rodin was the recipient of the 2006 Paul A. Pisk Prize from the American Musicological Society for his paper, “‘When in Rome...’: What Josquin Learned in the Sistine Chapel.” David Trippett published a review of Franz Liszt and his World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006) that appeared in Notes, vol. 63, no. 4, in June 2007. Anna Zayaruznaya gave a conference paper, “Machaut’s Motets and the Mechanics of Intelligibility,” at Kloster Neustift/Novacella in Italy. |
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Tallis Sebastien Barker 1991 (data to come) Colum Frances Amory 1992 (data to come) Maximillian David Fleischman 1993 (data to come) Anselm Russell Barker 1994 Randall Eng A House Divided: A Music Drama in Two Acts 1995 Dominic Matthew Dousa Symphony in E 1996 Awet Andemicael "Modeling Repertoire Choice in Professional American Opera Companies" 1997 Brent Auerbach Summer's End 1998 Michael Barrett "Issues of Performance Practice in Cantata 79 of J.S. Bach" 1999 Christopher Ariza Comma, for Large Ensemble 2000 John Baxindine "The Trouble with Candide": Analysis of an Operetta 2001 Jesse Billett "A Newly Identified Thirteenth-Century Franciscan Antiphoner: Houghton Library, pfMS Typ 198 Marina Tsvetaeva, op. 143 2002 John Bachman "Exploring SoundSpace: The Musical and Technical Foundations of Virtual Interactive Sound Environments" 2003 Jason Deane Armstrong "A Close Analysis of the Prelude in C Minor (BWV 871), Using Articulation and Grouping to Describe Subjective Understandings" 2004 William Jeffrey Adams 2005 Michael Joseph Abbriano, Jr. 2006 2007 Doug Balliett The Retelling (for Rock Bank and Orchestra) |
1990 Vanessa Lann received the John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study composition at the Konoinklijk Conservatorium of The Hague. 1991 no data available 1992 Sara Jobin received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study conducting at the Pierre Monteux Conducting School in Hancock, Maine, and in San Francisco with Alasdair Neale, Assistant Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony. 1993 Evan Christ received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study as a special student at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary in order to further develop his musicianship and conducting skills. Aras Lapinskas received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to spend the summer studying Lithuanian folklore an dfolk music in Vilnius, Lithuania. 1994 Sam Hilton received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to pursue ethnomusicological research in Vietnam, primarily at the Hanoi Conservatory. Geoffrey Shamu received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study trumpet in Paris with Pierre Thibaut and Baroque trumpet performance practice with teachers in London and Cologne. 1995 Matthew Benjamin Gelbart received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to pursue musicological research in London, Berlin, and Krakow. Simon Tom received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study piano performance in London wiht Maria Curcio and to travel to musical historical sites in Austria and elsewhere. 1996 Michael Puri received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship for further study at several European music schools. Juliana Trivers received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study composition in Paris with composer Betsy Jolas. Luna Woolf received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship for the study of composition in France. 1997 none 1998 Sami Shumays received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study Arab music with Simon Shaheen in New York City. 1999 Iris Lan received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study representations of the tango and other Western ballroommusic and dance in East Asia. 2000 Shawn Feeney received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study at the Elam School of Art at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, towards a Masters Degree in Intermedia. 2001 Jennifer Caine received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship for travel in conjunction with her study at the Royal College of Music in London. Jennifer Lee received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship for travel in Europe in conjunction with her study at Oxford University. 2002 John A. Bachman received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study North Indian classical drumming in Nepal. Sarah Darling received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study viola and baroque violin performance with Nobuko Imai at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Christopher Trapani received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to support his postgraduate composition studies in Europe. 2003 Kristin Naragon received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to attend the McGill Summer Organ Academy, the International Summer Music Academy in Leipzig, Germany, and the Smarano International Organ, Clavichord and Improvisation Academy near Milan, Italy. Sean Henry Ryan received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to travel to Stockholm, Sweden to study with Maestro Alan Gilbert of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Meredith Schweig received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to support a post-graduate project on the sound, origin, and development of the "quintessential Taiwanese" music voice, 1950-present. Kathleen Stetson received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study French at the Alliance Francaise in Paris while studying French vocal literature and voice. 2004 Anthony Cheung received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to attend the Acanthes composition workshop. Katharine Dain received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship for voice study at Guildhall School in London. Adrien Finlay received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to search in Paris and Cambridge. Moira Hill received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship for organ study at Trossingen, Germany. LeMinh Ho received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship for a Lisztian European tour. John McMunn received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship for travel and living expenses at King's College, England. Alexander Ness received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to travel to University of Wisconsin international program - India. 2005 Francesca Anderegg received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to visit and study period orchestras in England. Joseph Fishman received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to pursue an M. Phil in historical musicology at the University of Cambridge, studying Dmitri Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony as a musical response to the |