New & Now: Introducing the Music Minor
Aug 17, 2023
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the establishment of two Music Minors: a general Minor in Music and a Minor in Music Performance. Together, these new offerings will contribute to the Music Department’s continued mission of offering a comprehensive array of musical study opportunities to students from all departments at Princeton.
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.
Congratulations to the Class of 2023 Senior Class Day Award Winners
Aug 4, 2023
Last May, the Department of Music is proud to announce the recipients of the Class of 2023 Senior Class Day awards. Join us in applauding these young musicians on their outstanding accomplishments!
Princeton University’s Music Department premieres the Timbuktu Grooves Festival this Fall 2023
Jul 11, 2023
Princeton University’s Music Department presents the Timbuktu Grooves Festival from September 29 – October 1 led by Olivier Tarpaga, Lester Horton Award-winning choreographer and director of the African Music Ensembles at Princeton since 2017.
Meet the New Alumni Class of 2023 Music Majors
Jul 5, 2023
The Department of Music applauds the remarkable Music Majors that graduated from our department this spring.
Graduate Student Marcel Camprubi Awarded Top Prize from the American Musicological Society
Jun 13, 2023
The Princeton University Department of Music is proud to congratulate graduate student Marcel Camprubi, who has been awarded the Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship for his dissertation “Al-Fārābī’s Lines of Thought: Notations and Histories of Music Theory from Abbāsid Baghdad (762–1055).”
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.
Musicology Graduate Students Christopher Parton & Hannah McLaughlin Receive 2023 Teaching Award
Apr 20, 2023
The Department of Music congratulates Musicology students Christopher Parton and Hannah McLaughlin, who were among the 10 winners of this year’s Graduate School Teaching Award in recognition of outstanding undergraduate teaching.
Advisee Stories: Building Instruments, Enacting the Chimurenga, and Reframing Pedagogical Approaches to Tuning
Apr 18, 2023
The Senior Thesis is an integral part of every undergraduate’s journey at Princeton — an opportunity to dive deep into a topic of the student’s choosing and, under the guidance of a faculty advisor, develop a substantial independent project synthesizing their discoveries. This series celebrates the diversity of senior theses created by our Music Majors.
Advisee Stories: K-Pop Fandom, Experiments in Gathering, and Kendrick Lamar
Apr 17, 2023
The Senior Thesis is an integral part of every undergraduate’s journey at Princeton — an opportunity to dive deep into a topic of the student’s choosing and, under the guidance of a faculty advisor, develop a substantial independent project synthesizing their discoveries. This series celebrates the diversity of senior theses created by our Music Majors.
Advisee Stories: Bridging Musical Worlds from Carnatic to Chamber Music
Apr 16, 2023
The Senior Thesis is an integral part of every undergraduate’s journey at Princeton — an opportunity to dive deep into a topic of the student’s choosing and, under the guidance of a faculty advisor, develop a substantial independent project synthesizing their discoveries. This series celebrates the diversity of senior theses created by our Music Majors.
How Milo Poniewozik (’23) Spends a Tuesday on Campus
Mar 28, 2023
We caught up with Milo Poniewozik (’23) to learn how Poniewozik spends a Tuesday on campus.
Nancy Agosto: A Princeton-Trenton Story
Mar 20, 2023
Agosto is the Program Coordinator for Trenton Arts at Princeton, or TAP, a collaboration between the Department of Music, Lewis Center for the Arts, and Pace Center for Civic Engagement.
How Lola Constantino (’23) Spends a Wednesday on Campus
Mar 15, 2023
We caught up with Lola Constantino (’23) to learn how Constantino spends a Wednesday on campus.
How Shruti Venkat (’23) Spends a Monday on Campus
Feb 24, 2023
Meet Shruti Venkat (’23) Music certificate student and Princeton Glee Club Student Conductor and Manager.
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.
Announcing the 2022-2023 Concerto Competition Winners
Jan 3, 2023
Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Princeton University Orchestra Concerto Competition.
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.
Musicology, with a Twist: Princeton’s Music Cognition Lab
Dec 16, 2022
The Department of Music was pleased to welcome Dr. Elizabeth Margulis to the faculty in the Fall of 2019 as Professor of Music and Director of Graduate Studies (Musicology) to examine the relationship between music and the mind.
What’s Your Earliest Musical Memory? with Princeton Alumni of Classes ’13-’20
Dec 16, 2022
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, we reached out to alumni who were all active members of the Music Department community and asked them to share their earliest musical memory.
How Halle Mitchell (’23) Spends a Monday on Campus
Dec 7, 2022
We caught up with Halle Mitchell (’23) to learn how Halle spends a Monday on campus.