[🔔POSTPONED due to GC building closure through 2/24. New date to be announced soon] On 2/24 at 6pm, DMA violist Cameren Williams presents a recital in Elebash Hall with pianist Elżbieta Bilicka and violist Rosemary Nelis, featuring works by LeClair, Montgomery, Penderecki, Rochberg, and Telemann.

[🔔Rescheduled to Tuesday, 2/24 at 6pm due to the snowstorm ❄️] DMA violist Cameren Williams presents a recital of solo and duo works in Elebash Hall with pianist Elżbieta Bilicka and violist Rosemary Nelis, featuring works by LeClair, Montgomery, Penderecki, Rochberg, and Telemann.

On Friday, February 27th at 6pm, DMA violinist Emma Meinrenken presents a recital in Elebash Hall with pianist Arseniy Gusev, featuring Bach’s Solo Sonata No. 1 in G minor, Ysaÿe’s Solo Sonata No. 5 in G major, Webster’s Three Pieces for Solo Violin, and Prokofiev’s Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major.

On Monday, February 23rd at 6pm, DMA violist Cameren Williams presents a recital of solo and duo works in Elebash Hall with pianist Elżbieta Bilicka and violist Rosemary Nelis, featuring works by by Jean-Marie LeClair, Jessie Montgomery, Krzysztof Penderecki, George Rochberg, and G.P. Telemann.

On Thursday, February 19th at 1pm, the trio Rule of Three presents "In the Footsteps of Debussy" as part of the Music in Midtown series in Elebash Hall. The program includes the Debussy's Trio for flute, viola, and harp, which was the first significant chamber music for this setting.

Congratulations to Nicholas Tran (Ph.D. candidate in Composition) who has been named among the winners of the Graduate Center’s 2025-2026 Mentoring and Teaching Awards! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/announc...

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Congratulations to Dr. Nicolas Namoradze (D.M.A. ’20), who has been featured in The New York Times! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/a... Nicolas will also present a faculty recital at Elebash Hall at the Graduate Center on March 17th at 7:30pm, featuring an all-Beethoven program.

Congratulations to Rebecca Moranis for being awarded the 2025 SMT Student Presentation Award for her paper, “An Analysis of Joni Mitchell’s Vocal Evolution”! An article by Rebecca that is based on this study will appear in an upcoming issue of the journal Theory and Practice.

On Friday, February 6th at 7:30pm, DMA pianist Robert Brooks Carlson presents a recital in Elebash Hall, featuring works by Paderewski, Bartók, Beethoven, Berio, Liszt, Mozart, and Brahms.

[Rescheduled to Tuesday, Jan. 27 due to GC building closure and the inclement weather ❄️] Flutist Rebecca Moranis and pianist Joseph Vaz present a concert featuring the New York City premiere of three works for flute and piano by Madeline Barrett, alongside works by Maurice Ravel and Claude Vivier.

On Thursday, January 29th at 8pm in Elebash Hall, FAMI presents a concert featuring Anthony Philip Heinrich’s “Sunset Chimes,” William Henry Fry’s String Quartet No. 11, and George Frederick Bristow’s String Quartet No. 2. For more information: forginganamericanmusicalidentity.org/program

On Monday, January 26th at 7:30pm in Elebash Hall, flutist Rebecca Moranis and pianist Joseph Vaz present a concert featuring the New York City premiere of three works for flute and piano by Madeline Barrett, alongside works by Maurice Ravel and Claude Vivier.

Congratulations to the Terra String Quartet, which includes cellist and GC alumna Audrey Chen, on winning the 2025 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition! The award includes $15,000, a Carnegie Hall recital, a San Francisco Conservatory recital, a commissioned work and a recording of the work.

On Friday, December 12th at 5:30pm, Ph.D. students in Music Theory perform in Elebash Hall, featuring works by Ben Schweitzer, Huang Zi, Guillaume Dufay, Josquin des Prez, J.S. Bach, and W.A. Mozart.

On Thursday, December 11th at 1pm, artists in the DMA Program perform in chamber ensembles for the Music in Midtown series in Elebash Hall. The program will feature Brahms’ Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano; George Crumb’s “Vox Balaenae”; and Radamés Gnattali’s Trio for Two Guitars and Cello.

[Copland House Ensemble: Tangos, Ballads, And Blues...Transformed] An evening of reimagined tangos, ballads, and more with the renowned artists of the Copland House Ensemble. For more information and registration, please see: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/copla...

On Monday, December 8th at 7:30pm, musicology Ph.D. candidate Jon De Lucia will present the previously unrecorded music of the original Dave Brubeck Octet in a special recital in Elebash Hall. Guest performers will include Grammy winning soloists Scott Robinson and Brandon Lee.

On Thursday, December 4th at 1pm, artists in the Graduate Center’s DMA program perform in chamber ensembles for the Music in Midtown series in Elebash Hall. The program will feature Bedřich Smetana’s Piano Trio, Op. 15; Valerie Coleman’s “Rubispheres”; and Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, Op.4.

From December 1-3 at the Graduate Center and off-site in Brooklyn on December 5th, Itzá García, Tobías Fandel, and Teté Leguía present “overdrive’4,” the fourth edition of the festival for experimental electronic music and multimedia art. All events are free and open to the public. overdrive.nyc

Congratulations to GC alumnus, pianist and composer Nicolas Namoradze on signing an exclusive multi-album recording contract with Ondine! In addition, Nicolas has been making headlines with international performances and reviews. See more: gcmusic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/11/23/a...

On Monday, November 24th at 7:30pm, cellist Isabel Fairbanks and pianist Zach Mo of the DMA Performance Program perform in Elebash Recital Hall.  The program will include William Bolcom’s Capriccio, Johannes Brahms’ Cello Sonata No. 1, and transcriptions of four songs by Franz Schubert.

Congratulations to Music doctoral candidate Han Chen and Distinguished Prof. Emerita Tania León, who were both nominated for 2026 Grammy awards! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/two-gra... @cunygcmusic.bsky.social

On Thursday, November 20th at 1pm, artists of the Graduate Center’s DMA Program perform chamber music for the Music in Midtown series in Elebash Hall. The program will feature Mozart’s Violin Sonata in E minor, and Divertimento in E-flat Major, as well as Poulenc’s Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon.

On Wednesday, November 19th at 7pm in the Proshansky Auditorium, the New Sounds on Fifth Ensemble continues its collaboration of performers and composers of the Graduate Center Music Department, highlighting the music of this generation.  More information: www.instagram.com/p/DRBMSPVjC9...

On Monday, November 17th at 7:30pm in Elebash Recital Hall, composer and Ph.D. candidate Tobias Fandel presents “Line of Sight,” a concert of works for synthesizer.

Congratulations to DMA candidate and pianist Han Chen and Distinguished Professor Emerita Tania León who have each been nominated for a Grammy! Han Chen has been nominated for a Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Solo and Tania León has been nominated for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.

Congratulations to four GC-affiliated music theorists named among the 2025 SMT Award recipients! Alumnae Michéle Duguay and Kristi Hardman, Professor Philip Ewell, and Visiting Research Scholar Kara Yoo Leaman received awards across four categories. gcmusic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/11/10/f...

On Friday, November 14th at 7:30pm, students of the Ph.D. in Musicology department perform in Elebash Recital Hall, presenting works by Mozart, Bach, Strozzi, Greenholtz, Park, Champion de Chambonnières, d’Anglebert, Luzzaschi, Hahn, and Three Irish Country Songs arr. Rebecca Clarke.

On Monday, November 10th at 6pm, DMA mezzo-soprano Sophie Delphis performs with pianist Joseph Vaz in Elebash Hall, featuring a program interspersing songs by Alban Berg, Betsy Jolas, Jonathan Howard Katz, Betsy Podsiadlo, and Yoshi Weinberg amongst selections from Gabriel Fauré’s La Chanson d’Ève.

The GC Music Department’s participation at the annual Society for Ethnomusicology conference, held in Atlanta, was very strong! In addition, Prof. Anaar Desai-Stephens received the Richard Waterman Junior Scholar Prize. Congratulations! For the full news, see: www.instagram.com/p/DQnSbmIEcvP/

On Friday, November 7th at 7:30pm, The Polish Chamber Music Society returns to Elebash Hall for a concert of chamber music, featuring a program of works by Rathaus, Krzewinska, Smaldone, Nichols, and Saylor. (Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.)

On Thursday, November 6th at 1pm, pianist Peter Vinograde presents “Variations a la Carte” in Elebash Hall as part of the Music in Midtown series. The program will feature Theme & Variations works by Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Walker, and Brahms. www.gc.cuny.edu/events/music...

On Friday, October 31st at 6pm, the Diálogos Duo, formed by DMA clarinetist Louis Arques and guitarist-composer Richard Boukas, perform in Elebash Recital Hall. The program premiers selections from the 20-movement Samba suite, “Samba Legends” (Sambistas Imortais) by Richard Boukas (b.1953).

On Wednesday, October 29th at 6:30pm in Elebash Hall, Prof. Suzanne Farrin joins a discussion alongside Idra Novey and Mila Burns following a performance of excerpts from "The Passion According to Janair," a solo show performed by Brazilian actress and playwright Ana Carbatti.

On Thursday, October 23rd at 1pm, the Argentina Guitar Duo (Federico Díaz and Juan Almada) presents a duo recital in Elebash Hall as part of the Music in Midtown series. The program will feature works by Frederic Hand, Carlos Aguirre, and Remo Pignoni.

On Monday, October 20th at 6pm, DMA cellist Kirsten Jermé and pianist Vadim Serebryany present the complete cycle of Beethoven’s Cello Sonatas in Elebash Recital Hall. gcmusic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/recit...

On Friday, October 17th at 7:30pm in Elebash Recital Hall, DMA cellist Sarah Song presents “New York Sori,” celebrating female East Asian-American artists in NYC. This concert is generously funded by the Baisley Powell Elebash Fund.  For more information: gcmusic.commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/eleba...

On Thursday, October 16th, Professor Joseph Straus presents a colloquium on his recent research, “Classical Music’s Jewish Problem,” on antisemitism in Western Classical Music (1850-1945) with a particular focus on works of Wagner, Strauss, Webern, and Stravinsky.

Congratulations to recent DMA alumnus and clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson, whose album "Forgotten Sounds" (the world-premiere recording of Loeffler’s Octet) has been nominated for the Gramophone Classical Music Award — one of the highest honors in the classical music industry!

On Thursday, October 9th at 1pm, violinist and faculty member Rolf Schulte performs in Elebash Hall with pianist Joseph Liccardo as part of the Music in Midtown series. The program features Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas Op. 23 & Op. 24, and Schönberg’s Herzgewächse, Op. 20 (arr. for violin and piano).

On Friday, October 3rd at 7:30pm, faculty member Thomas Sauer presents a solo piano recital in Elebash Hall, featuring: Mozart’s Piano Sonata in F Major, three études by Abrahamsen, Ligeti, and Chin, Schumann’s Nachtstücke, and Chopin’s Two Nocturnes, Op. 62 and the Polonaise-Fantaisie.

Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Emerita Tania León, who was awarded the William Schuman Award last night! In celebration of this honor the William Schuman Award Concert was held at Miller Theatre, featuring pianist Han Chen and violist Martine Kinsella Thomas from the GC DMA Program.

[Ravel at 150] On Thursday, September 25th at 1pm and 7pm, pianist Sylvia Kahan is joined by artists from the DMA Program in Performance for the Music in Midtown series in Elebash Hall, in a sesquicentennial celebration of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937).   FREE admission! www.instagram.com/p/DOrDhmOkfCf/

The Graduate Center Music Department’s Music in Midtown concert series begins this month! Music in Midtown is a series of lunchtime concerts featuring the program's renowned faculty, alumni and outstanding performers selected from students in the DMA in Performance, as well as noted guest artists.

On Friday, August 29th at 6pm, DMA pianist Joseph Vaz performs a recital in Elebash Hall. The program will feature solo piano works by Ed Bland, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Akin Euba, Olivier Messiaen, Art Tatum, Alexander Scriabin, and Igor Stravinsky.

Congratulations to Ph.D. students Laura Suárez Rodríguez and Julio E. Quiñones Santiago, who have been awarded prestigious Crossing Latinidades Fellowships for 2025–26! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/two-gra... @cunygcmusic.bsky.social

Congratulations to pianist and alumnus Nicolas Namoradze on his residency at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland! He will premiere Neuropiano and the Neurorecital, a multidisciplinary collaboration that explores a pianist’s brain activity during performance using Neuroscape’s Glass Brain technology.

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Madison Schindele (musicology), who has been named one of three CUNY Graduate Center doctoral students awarded Fulbright research fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year! Read more here: www.gc.cuny.edu/news/three-g...

On Friday, May 23rd at 6pm, DMA pianist Elżbieta Bilicka performs in Elebash Hall. Featured on this recital are Christopher Theofanidis's Birichino, Mozart's Sonata in F Major, K.280, Fauré's Nocturne No. 2 in B Major, Szymanowski's Prelude No. 1 in B minor, and Chopin's Sonata No. 3 in B minor.