The 2008 Robert Starer Composition Award has been awarded to Cynthia Lee Wong wins for "On Baldness and Other  Songs" for Soprano and Orchestra. Excepts of this work may be found at http://www.cynthialeewong.com.


The 2008 Barry Brook Award has been awarded to Jadranka Važanová for "Svadobné nôty: Ceremonial Wedding Tunes in the Context of Slovak Traditional Culture."

CUNY Music Department places high in rankings conducted by Academic Analytics! The Music Department ranked fifth in the country for the scholarly achievement of its faculty, according to the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index. Further, in the “broad” category of humanities, the Graduate Center was fourth after Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. The rankings take into account scholarly publications, honors and awards and grants. The research was conducted by Academic Analytics and an overview of the findings were reported in the January 12, 2007 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education.