How Jeffrey Snyder, Director of Electronic Music & PLOrk, Will Spend His Summer
May 31, 2023
Jeffrey Snyder is presenting the Electrosteel at New Interfaces for Musical Expression & mixing a new record of electronic dance music.
Ruth Ochs Named Honorary Member of the Class of 2023
May 10, 2023
The Department of Music is proud to congratulate Ruth Ochs, conductor of the Princeton University Sinfonia, who has been inducted as an honorary member of the Class of 2023.
Saturdays Look A Little Different at the Lewis Arts Complex: Introducing the Trenton Youth Singers
Feb 23, 2023
Most Saturday mornings walking across campus, things are quiet. Students, recovering from a week of classes, problem sets, papers, and more, are sleeping in. Aside from the occasional early riser bustling off to the library or Small World, there’s a sense of calm.
Meet the STEM Majors of Sinfonia
Jan 31, 2023
Twice a week in the Lee Music Performance & Rehearsal Room, the Princeton University Sinfonia gathers to rehearse. Led by director Ruth Ochs, the orchestra is made up of students from all class years, many STEM majors coming from across the University’s myriad of technical disciplines, to enjoy a few hours a week of music and community.
5 Concerts & Recording Releases the Princeton Composition Faculty are Excited About
Jan 14, 2023
We caught up with Nathalie Joachim – Grammy-nominated flutist, composer, and vocalist, 2020 United States Artist Fellow, and co-founder of the critically-acclaimed duo Flutronix – and asked her which five concerts and recording releases she’s excited about this winter.
What Does a Princeton Musicology Faculty Member Have on their Desk?
Dec 21, 2022
What’s on a musicologist’s desk? Jamie Reuland, a scholar of music of the Middle Ages, invited us in for a peek into the method behind the musicology.
Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa (’14) Is Booked, Blessed, and Back at Princeton
Nov 30, 2022
Tanyaradzwa is like so many Princetonians – ambitious, fiercely intelligent, a true multi-hyphenate. Yet it is her way of walking in abundance that is perhaps her most striking and admirable quality.
5 Concerts & Recording Releases the Princeton Composition Faculty are Excited About
Nov 30, 2022
We caught up with Donnacha Dennehy and asked him which five concerts and recording releases he’s excited for this fall.
What Does a Princeton Musicology Faculty Member Have On Their Desk?
Nov 23, 2022
What’s on a musicologist’s desk? Wendy Heller, a leading scholar in the field of Baroque music with expertise in the study of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century opera from interdisciplinary perspectives, invited us in for a peek into the method behind the musicology.
DANCEUSA.ORG: Olivier Tarpaga Awarded Dance/USA Artist Fellowship
Nov 17, 2022
Director of African Music Ensembles Olivier Tarpaga is one of 30 artists across the United States to be selected as a 2022 Dance/USA Artist Fellow.
What Does a Princeton Musicology Faculty Member Have on their Desk?
Nov 8, 2022
What’s on a musicologist’s desk? Simon Morrison, a cultural historian with expertise in Russia, the Soviet Union, modernism, and ballet who’s been with the Music Department since the 1990s, invited us in for a peek into the method behind the musicology.
5 Concerts & Recording Releases the Princeton Composition Faculty are Excited About
Nov 1, 2022
We caught up with Dan Trueman – fiddler, collaborator, teacher, developer of new instruments, and composer of music for ensembles of all shapes and sizes – and asked him which five concerts and recording releases he’s excited for this fall.
Faculty Appointments: Tyondai Braxton & Nathalie Joachim
Jul 8, 2022
The Department of Music at Princeton University is thrilled to announce the addition of Grammy-nominated flutist, composer, and vocalist Nathalie Joachim and American composer and musician Tyondai Braxton to the faculty.
Book Announcement: Prof. Simon Morrison
Nov 20, 2021
Congratulations to Prof. Simon Morrison, whose new book, Roxy Music’s Avalon, is soon to be published by Bloomsbury and is now available for pre-order. About Roxy Music’s Avalon: Having designed Roxy Music as …
Jazz Director Rudresh Mahanthappa DownBeat Critics Poll Winner
Jul 14, 2021
Congratulations to Director of Jazz, Rudresh Mahanthappa, who has again been selected the Alto Saxophone winner in the DownBeat International Critics Poll. The August issue of DownBeat, which arrives on …
Donnacha Dennehy Awarded 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship
Apr 29, 2021
Congratulations to Prof. Donnacha Dennehy, recipient of a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship! Prof. Dennehy is one of 184 recipients, chosen from a pool of almost 3,000 applicant scholars, artists, writers, and …
Rudresh Mahanthappa: JazzTimes Cover Feature
May 27, 2020
JazzTimes has published a cover feature profile about Rudresh Mahanthappa, Director of Jazz Studies, in the publication’s June issue. Read the article online here!
Essay by Simon Morrison: The Sounds of Solace
May 8, 2020
Published in the May 13, 2020 issue of Princeton Alumni Weekly. At midnight on March 27, Bob Dylan released a previously unknown 17-minute song about the assassination of JFK. We don’t know …
Professor Emeritus Claudio Spies Dies at 95
Apr 10, 2020
Claudio Spies, Professor of Music Emeritus at Princeton University, died peacefully at his home in Sonoma, California, on April 2. He was 95. Composer, conductor, music theorist and author, Spies was born …
Ruth Ochs Receives Community Engagement Award
Jan 21, 2020
by Emily Eyestone, Pace Center for Civic EngagementReposted from the John H. Pace Jr ’39 Center for Civic Engagement For Ruth Ochs, music has always been a connective force; a …
Iarla Ó Lionáird Receives RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Award
Oct 28, 2019
Congratulations to Iarla Ó Lionáird, Global Scholar and Visiting Lecturer in Music and the Humanities, who was awarded Best Folk Singer by the 2019 RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards. The awards offer support and recognition to Irish folk musicians …
Book Announcement: Prof. Simon Morrison
Aug 27, 2019
Congratulations to Prof. Simon Morrison, whose “incredibly rich” (The New York Times) history of the Bolshoi Ballet, Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to …
Peter Westergaard and Music Performance at Princeton
Aug 23, 2019
Recently, we witnessed the sad passing of Peter Talbot Westergaard — Princeton’s William Shubael Conant Professor of Music, Emeritus — at age 88. He was the most influential musical artist …
Michael Pratt Receives President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching
Jun 4, 2019
Full story by Karin Dienst, Office of Communications, available here. Michael Pratt, conductor of the Princeton University Orchestra and director of the Program in Music Performance, is one of four recipients of this year’s President’s …