Category: Awards

Rudresh Mahanthappa named Best Alto Saxophonist in JazzTimes’ 2017 Expanded Critics’ Poll

Feb 22, 2018

The Anthony H. P. Lee ’79 Director of Jazz at Princeton University, saxophonist and composer Rudresh Mahanthappa has been named “Best Alto Saxophonist” in the JazzTimes 2017 Expanded Critics Poll, published in …

Barbara White and Juri Seo Receive Fromm Music Foundation Commissions

Dec 11, 2017

Congratulations to Barbara White and Juri Seo, both on the Music Department’s Composition Faculty, who have each received a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University.  Other recipients this year are Michael …

Music Major Rebecca Singer Awarded Schwarzman Scholarship

Dec 6, 2017

Congratulations to Rebecca Singer, a senior in the Department of Music, who is one of two current Princeton University students to have just been named a Schwarzman Scholar.  The Schwarzman Scholarship covers the cost …

Music Major Shruthi Rajasekar awarded 2018 Marshall Scholarship

Dec 4, 2017

Article written by Denise Valenti, Office of Communications: “Princeton senior and Music Major Shruthi Rajasekar has been named a 2018 Marshall Scholar. The Marshall Scholarship seeks to promote strong relations between the United Kingdom …

Tenebrae Choir, with Gabriel Crouch, Receives GRAMMY Nomination

Nov 28, 2017

The Tenebrae Choir, in which Director of Vocal Activities Gabriel Crouch is a principal singer, has been nominated for their first GRAMMY award! The ensemble’s album Music of the Spheres: Part Songs of the British Isles is …

Pascal Le Boeuf Nominated for GRAMMY Award

Nov 28, 2017

Graduate student composer Pascal Le Boeuf has been nominated for a 2018 GRAMMY award! His composition “Alkaline,” from the new album Imaginist recorded by the Le Boeuf Brothers and the JACK Quartet, has been nominated …

Gavin Steingo Awarded Alan Merriam Prize

Nov 2, 2017

Congratulations to Gavin Steingo, our new Assistant Professor of Music, who has been awarded the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Alan Merriam Prize for his book Kwaito’s Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South …

Juri Seo Awarded Library of Congress’ Koussevitzky Commission

Oct 31, 2017

Assistant Professor of Music Juri Seo is one of six composers awarded a commission from the Library of Congress’ Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation. Established in 1949, the program awards commissions to “established composers …

Shruthi Rajasekar ’18 Receives Alex Adam ’07 Award

Oct 26, 2017

Shruthi Rajasekar ’18, a Music Composition major pursuing a certificate in Vocal Performance, was one of three recipients of the 2017 Alex Adam ’07 Award administered through the Lewis Center for the Arts. The …

Donnacha Dennehy’s New Opera Awarded Fedora Prize

Jun 6, 2017

Congratulations to Prof. Donnacha Dennehy, whose latest opera, The Second Violinist, was awarded the Fedora’s 2017 Generali Prize for Opera. This prize of €150,000 is given to support future international …

Prof. Dan Trueman Awarded 2016 Bessie Award

Nov 2, 2016

Congratulations to Prof. Dan Trueman who has received the 2016 Bessie Award for “Outstanding Musical Composition/Sound Design”! Prof. Trueman was recognized for his contributions to There Might Others,choreographed by Rebecca Lazier, Senior Lecturer in the Lewis …

Dasha Koltunyuk ’15, Wins Thousand Islands International Chopin Competition

Sep 23, 2016

Congratulations to Dasha Koltunyuk ‘2015, Marketing & Outreach Manager for the Music Department, who won first place at the Thousand Islands International Piano Competition. First place prize was $2000. Second and third place …