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Student Spotlight: Ethan Chaves

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Ethan Chaves ’26 is a Senior in Winthrop House, who completed his Music concentration this past May, studying composition with Professor Chaya Czernowin. Chaves plays violin and piano, and has interests in composing, improvising, and electroacoustic work...

Jordan R. Brown and Zehra Jabeen Shah 'Another Music Studies Is Possible: Centering Experiences of Graduate Labor from Members of Project Spectrum'

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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...

FAS Current: 'Raghav Mehrotra: Finding his rhythm between classroom and stage'

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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...

The New Yorker: 'Chaya Czernowin Gives Voice to a Wounded World'

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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.

Professor Alejandro L. Madrid named a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow

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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...

Jordan R. Brown Publishes Chapter in 'The Oxford Handbook of Pop Music'

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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...

Harvard Office for the Arts Announces 2026 Arts Prize Winners

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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...

Harvard Office for the Arts Announces 2026 Artist Development Fellowship Recipients

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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...

Harvard University Department of Music Welcomes 2026 Fromm Distinguished Visiting Scholar Anthony Davis

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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...

Professor Alejandro L. Madrid receives Latin American Studies Association Award

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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...