Elizabeth Margulis on the Frontiers of Music Cognition
Jan 22, 2025
The Department of Music is thrilled to congratulate musicology professor and Director of Graduate Studies Elizabeth Margulis, who has received the Ruth A. Solie Award for her editorial contributions to The Science-Music Borderlands: Reckoning with the Past and Imagining the Future.
Announcing the Launch of Princeton in Leipzig
Jan 7, 2025
Enrollment in “Princeton in Leipzig” has been extended to March 2, 2025! The Princeton Music Department is excited to announce the launch of Princeton in Leipzig, a summer study abroad …
Gavin Steingo Named 2024-25 Getty Research Institute Scholar
Jun 28, 2024
The Department of Music is excited to announce that Gavin Steingo, Professor of Music and Director of Undergraduate Studies, received a prestigious year-long fellowship at the Getty Research Institute (GRI) in …
Anna Yu Wang Named 2024 Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellow in China Studies
May 24, 2024
The Music Department at Princeton is proud to announce that Anna Yu Wang has been awarded a 2024 Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowship in China Studies.
Cultivating Aluminum Flowers: Inside Steven Mackey’s Latest Electric Guitar Concerto
May 6, 2024
Steven Mackey’s Aluminum Flowers, a concerto for solo electric guitar and orchestra, made its world premiere on March 9, 2024 at the Kimmel Center. This concert featured jaw-dropping virtuosity of polymath guitarist JIJI.
Thinking Through Musical Sound with Music Faculty Anna Yu Wang
Mar 4, 2024
Music Faculty Anna Yu Wang shares insights into her fall-semester course “Thinking Through Musical Sound” and reflects on how it broadened students’ (and her own) perspectives on music and world-making.
Princeton University Chamber Choir and Alumni Perform at National Collegiate Choral Organization Biennial
Dec 12, 2023
The Princeton University Chamber Choir, joined by twenty-five alumni, recently made their mark at the National Collegiate Choral Organization (NCCO) biennial conference.
Faculty Appointments: Anna Yu Wang, Arnie Tanimoto, Brennan Sweet, Yousun Chun & Julius Tolentino
Nov 3, 2023
The Department of Music at Princeton University is thrilled to welcome to the faculty five renowned music practitioners: music theorist and ethnographer Anna Yu Wang, viola da gamba and Baroque cello specialist Arnie Tanimoto, violinist Brennan Sweet, oboist Yousun Chung, and saxophonist Julius Tolentino.
Rhythms, Riddles, and Robots
Sep 2, 2023
Learn about Sō Percussion’s concert on September 8th in Richardson auditorium, which inaugurates their tenth year as the Edward T. Cone Performers-in-Residence.
Elizabeth Margulis’ “Music and the Narrative Imagination” Project Awarded Funds from University
Aug 12, 2023
The Department of Music is proud to congratulate musicology faculty member and Director of Graduate Studies Elizabeth Margulis, whose forthcoming collaboration with Princeton Neuroscience Institute’s Uri Hasson, Music and the Narrative Imagination, has been awarded funding by the Dean for Research Innovation Fund for Collaborations between Artists and Scientists or Engineers.
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.
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.