Month: April 2024

Jonah Haven wins Luciano Berio Rome Prize for Musical Composition

The American Academy in Rome recently announced the 2024-2025 Rome Prize winners, including graduate student Jonah Haven. These highly competitive fellowships support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities. This year, the Rome Prize—the gift of “time and space to think and work”—was awarded to thirty-one American artists and scholars, who will…

Professor Vijay Iyer awarded Goddard Lieberson Fellowship

In February, the American Academy of Arts and Letters announced the 20 recipients of the 2024 Awards in Music. Among these, Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts Vijay Iyer was awarded a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship. The fellowships, two of which were awarded this year, are given annually to composers of extraordinary gifts….

The Harvard Gazette: “Instruments of Change”

Several members from the Department of Music, including Professor Charrise Barron and Devon Gates (’23), recently sat down with Dylan Goodman from The Harvard Gazette to discuss their experiences as women in music. Excerpt: When she is not singing or playing the keys, Barron is researching and teaching courses surrounding ethnomusicology — the study of…