Department News

Harvard Magazine: "How a Harvard and Lesley Group Broke Choir Singing Wide Open"

March 03, 2026

How a Harvard and Lesley Group Broke Choir Singing Wide Open Cambridge Common Voices draws on principles of universal design. Recently Andy Clark, Director of Choral Activities, sat down with Schuyler L Velasco and Harvard Magazine to discuss the ongoing...

The Harvard Gazette: "How Bad Bunny Rocketed to Global Stardom" with Professor Alejandro L. Madrid

February 04, 2026

The Harvard Gazette: How Bad Bunny Rocketed to Global Stardom Professor Alejandro L. Madrid, Water W. Naumburg Professor of Music, sat down with with Liz Mineo, Harvard Staff Writer, and the Harvard Gazette to discuss Bad Bunny's rapid ascent to global...

Call for Papers for Harvard Graduate Music Forum Conference 2026: THE MATTER OF THE POROUS

January 06, 2026

Call for Papers: Harvard Graduate Music Forum Conference 2026: THE MATTER OF THE POROUS April 17-18, 2026. Submissions due: January 31, 2026 Submission form HERE. This conference seeks to critically investigate the potentials and pitfalls of the "material...

The Fromm Music Foundation Announces 2025 Commission Recipients, Fromm Prize, and Project Grant Recipients

December 22, 2025

CAMBRIDGE, MA — The Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University is pleased to announce the 2025 commission, Fromm Prize, and project grant recipients. Each year, the Fromm Music Foundation accepts applications for commissions of new music, and this year...

Harvard ArtLab Works in Progress: Jessie Cox "Sound as a new way of thinking"

December 03, 2025

Assistant Professor of Music Jessie Cox recently joined Harvard ArtLab Director Bree Edwards on the Harvard ArtLab podcast WORKS IN PROGRESS to discuss his course Music, Technology, and Ecology (Music 30) and the instrument-making workshops held at ArtLab...

Works in Progress cover image featuring Jessie Cox

The Harvard Gazette: "Series of events bring together distinctive art forms with common thread"

November 17, 2025

Recently, the Harvard Gazette highlighted the Department of Music and Harvard ArtLab's collaborative event with Annea Lockwood. Visit the Harvard Gazette website to read the full article. Excerpt: " During the discussion, Cole highlighted the unique...

The Harvard New Music Ensemble performed Annea Lockwood’s “bayou-borne.”

Harvard Studio for Electroacoustic Composition Presents Farewell HYDRA Concerts for Professor Hans Tutschku

November 24, 2025

The Harvard University Department of Music and the Harvard Studio for Electroacoustic Composition (HUSEAC) are thrilled to announce four upcoming concerts utilizing the HYDRA Loudspeaker Orchestra System, to honor the upcoming retirement of Professor Hans...

Shelemay Sound Lab featured on BBC's The Documentary Podcast

October 15, 2025

The Shelemay Sound Lab was recently featured in an episode of BBC's The Documentary Podcast, "Alexey Seliverstov: Bionic Birdsong," discussing Seliverstov's recent residency at the Sound Lab.

Alexey Seliverstov recording audio, with BBC graphics overlaid

Professor Daniel Chong featured in Boston Globe article

October 20, 2025

Professor of the Practice Daniel Chong was recently featured in an article by The Boston Globe. The article, "After playing at the opening of Symphony Hall 125 years ago, $11 million Stradivarius violin is at the MFA" discusses the acquisition of...

Alejandro L. Madrid Honored

October 14, 2025

Department Chair and Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music Alejandro L. Madrid was recently named to the 2025 ALX100 by We Are ALX, a group of exceptional Latino leaders across Massachusetts. We Are ALX is a non-partisan, collaborative non-profit with the...

Uri Schreter Awarded Harry and Cecile Starr Prize in Jewish Studies

October 02, 2025

The Department of Music is thrilled to share that Uri Schreter ('25) has been awarded the Harry and Cecile Starr Prize in Jewish Studies by the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies for his doctoral dissertation "The Jewish Beat: Klezmer, Culture...

Harvard Griffin GSAS: A Conversation with Music's Suzannah Clark

September 26, 2025

Earlier this year, The Advising Project sat down with Suzannah Clark , Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music and Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center , to discuss graduate advising at Harvard and beyond. Clark discussed topics including faculty...

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