# Department News [### Jordan R. Brown and Zehra Jabeen Shah 'Another Music Studies Is Possible: Centering Experiences of Graduate Labor from Members of Project Spectrum' ](/news/2026/05/jordan-r-brown-and-zehra-jabeen-shah-another-music-studies-possible-centering) May 26, 2026 Department of Music Graduate Students Jordan R. Brown and Zehra Jabeen Shah have recently published 'Another Music Studies Is Possible: Centering Experiences of Graduate Labor from Members of Project Spectrum ' in American Music Volume 43, Issue 1-2. For... ![American Music Volume 43 Issue 1-2 Cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/American%20Music%20Cover%20Image.png?itok=TbZGbRLs) [### FAS Current: 'Raghav Mehrotra: Finding his rhythm between classroom and stage' ](/news/2026/05/fas-current-raghav-mehrotra-finding-his-rhythm-between-classroom-and-stage) May 21, 2026 Department of Music concentrator and Harvard-Berklee Joint Studies Program student Raghav Mehrotra '26 was recently profiled by Eileen O'Grady for the FAS Current . Excerpt: At the start of his first semester, Raghav Mehrotra wasn’t sitting in class. He... ![Raghav Mehrotra playing drums in Holden Chapel](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Screenshot%202026-05-21%20at%202.30.42%E2%80%AFPM.png?h=1310a900&itok=NHA9BwVg) [### The New Yorker: 'Chaya Czernowin Gives Voice to a Wounded World' ](/news/2026/05/new-yorker-chaya-czernowin-gives-voice-wounded-world) May 20, 2026 Professor Chaya Czernowin was recently featured in an article by The New Yorker about her participation and works featured at the Witten Days for New Chamber Music festival. ![drawing of Chaya Czernowin](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Screenshot%202026-05-20%20at%209.54.29%E2%80%AFAM.png?h=1bef4aa8&itok=Fam2Nbhq) [### Professor Alejandro L. Madrid named a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow ](/news/2026/05/professor-alejandro-l-madrid-named-walter-channing-cabot-fellow) May 13, 2026 Alejandro L. Madrid, the Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, has been awarded the Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship. The fellowship is an annual prize honoring Harvard scholars for their contributions to the advancement of scholarship in the fields of... ![Alejandro L. Madrid](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-07/Alejandro%20L.%20Madrid.png?h=8745223f&itok=WNXuy5DC) [### Jordan R. Brown Publishes Chapter in 'The Oxford Handbook of Pop Music' ](/news/2026/05/jordan-r-brown-publishes-chapter-oxford-handbook-pop-music) May 08, 2026 Ethnomusicology graduate student Jordan R. Brown's chapter 'Queen Bey: The Sampling Historiographies behind the Icon' was recently published in The Oxford Handbook of Pop Music (2026, Oxford University Press). Abstract: The Oxford Handbook of Pop Music is... ![Oxford Handbook of Pop Music cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Screenshot%202026-05-08%20at%2012.19.57%E2%80%AFPM.png?h=9ad3b797&itok=4gvhZTnU) [### Harvard Office for the Arts Announces 2026 Artist Development Fellowship Recipients ](/news/2026/04/harvard-office-arts-announces-2026-artist-development-fellowship-recipients) April 23, 2026 The Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Office of the Dean for the Arts and Humanities announce the 2026 recipients of the annual Artist Development Fellowships. The program supports the artistic development of students demonstrating unusual... ![Top (from left): Andrew Kang ’27, Cory Maxwell’28, EJ Barthelemy ’27, Lara Tan Rui Qi ’27, Madeline Phuong ’27, Richardine Mamam Nbiba ’27, Yael Danon ’28, Sheerea Yu ’27](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/2026%20OFA%20Artist%20Development%20Fellows.jpeg?h=61bf25cf&itok=Y63Ku8oc) [### Harvard Office for the Arts Announces 2026 Arts Prize Winners ](/news/2026/04/harvard-office-arts-announces-2026-arts-prize-winners) April 23, 2026 The Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Council on the Arts at Harvard, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announce the recipients of the annual undergraduate arts prizes for 2026. The awards, presented to more than 230... ![Top (from left): Paola Lee-Vega ’26, Carolyn Hao ’26, Bernardo Sequeria ’26, Texaco Texeira-Ramos ’26, Adam Bartholomew ’26, Joseph Foo ’26, Miranda Morales ’26, Elizabeth Bennett ’26, Kate LeBuhn ’26, Justin Levy ’26. Enoch Li ’26, Ethan Chaves ’26, Katherrin Billordo ‘26](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/2026%20OFA%20Arts%20Prize%20Recipients_0.jpeg?h=29c1f7e2&itok=5fBNABeG) [### Harvard University Department of Music Welcomes 2026 Fromm Distinguished Visiting Scholar Anthony Davis ](/news/2026/04/harvard-university-department-music-welcomes-2026-fromm-distinguished-visiting-scholar) April 14, 2026 The Harvard University Department of Music has named Pulitzer Prize-winning composer **Anthony Davis** as the 2026 Fromm Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Davis will spend April 15–24, 2026 in residency in the Department of Music, engaging with composition... ![Anthony Davis, Davóne Tines, and Anne C. Shreffler](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/EventbriteHeader.jpg?h=6a71e89e&itok=293LbRJL) [### Professor Alejandro L. Madrid receives Latin American Studies Association Award ](/news/2026/04/professor-alejandro-l-madrid-receives-latin-american-studies-association-award) April 07, 2026 Professor Alejandro L. Madrid has received the 2026 "Archives" Section Award for Best Publication by the Latin American Studies Association for his article "Listening through the Colonial Noise: Things, Sound Objects, and Legacy at the Berliner Phonogramm... ![Alejandro L. Madrid](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-07/Alejandro%20L.%20Madrid.png?h=8745223f&itok=WNXuy5DC) [### Student Spotlight: Lara Rui-Qi Tan ](/news/2026/03/student-spotlight-lara-rui-qi-tan) March 19, 2026 **Lara Rui-Qi Tan** '27 is a Junior in Cabot House, working on a double-concentration in Music and Government, and a Secondary in European History, Politics, and Society. “I realized that \[European History, Politics, and Society\] was a natural complement to... ![Lara Rui-Qi Tan](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Rui_Lara_290A4405.jpg?h=f221f7c4&itok=XgFQ04k-) [### Bernard Rands (1934-2026) ](/news/2026/03/bernard-rands-1934-2026) March 17, 2026 The Harvard University Department of Music mourns the passing of British composer and Harvard University Professor Emeritus Bernard Rands, a deeply original musical voice and a devoted teacher whose influence resonated far beyond the classroom. He died in... ![Bernard Rands](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Bernard%20Rands%2002335%20Photo%20credit%20to%20Grittani%20Creative%20LTD%20WEB.jpg.jpeg?itok=4L6aorHM) [### Michele Cheng: "Multiverse: Reframing Vulnerable Realities through Intermedia Storytelling and Fluidity" ](/news/2026/03/michele-cheng-multiverse-reframing-vulnerable-realities-through-intermedia) March 06, 2026 Michele Cheng's paper "Multiverse: Reframing Vulnerable Realities Through Intermedia Storytelling" was published by *Leonardo* through MIT Press. ![Michele Cheng](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-08/Michele%20Cheng.jpg?h=cee7b180&itok=ZXwiu_Xh)