Announcements: Community News
Awards: (1) Student Awards; (2) Faculty Awards and Honors
(1) Student Awards
Jorge Arévalo and Ernesto Donas were awarded 2002
Summer Research Travel Fellowships from the Center for Latin American, Caribbean,
& Latino Studies.
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Ben Bierman was named Composer in Residence for the 2002-03 season
with the Goliard Ensemble (a New York based chamber group). As part of this residency
he received a commission for a chamber work that was premiered by the Goliard Ensemble
during their southeastern tour in October 2002. It received its NY premiere in January,
2003 and was performed during a February 2003 tour. The residency also includes his work
as a performer, as well as workshops and master classes in composition and brass performance.
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Alla Borzova was awarded the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship of $15,000
from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The fellowship, endowed in 1978 by the
CBS Foundation, is given to "mid-career composers of exceptional gifts."
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Alessandra Ciucci was awarded the Jewish Foundation for Education of
Women Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities for "Moroccan Shikhat: The Embodying Voices
Disembodied."
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Nína-Margrét Grímsdóttir was promoted to
departmental chair at the Kopavogur Music School in Reykjavík.
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Marc E. Johnson was awarded the Mario Capelloni Dissertation Fellowship
for "The Masses Are Singing: Insurgency and Song in New York City, 1929-1941."
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Cathy Ragland received the 2002-2003 Dissertation Fellowship from the
Program on the Arts at the Social Science Research Council.
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Hsin-Jung Tsai won the Music Composition Award from the Asian American /
Asian Research Institute (AAARI) at Queens College, The City University of New York, for
composing the music used in their promotional film.
(2) Faculty Awards and Honors
In June, Zdravko Blažeković was awarded the Order of the Croatian
Morning Star by the President of Croatia for his "exceptional contribution to Croatian culture."
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Raymond Erickson, founding member and past president of the Alexander von Humboldt
Association of America, was decorated with the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit
(Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse) of the Federal Republic of Germany on October 29, 2002. The
presentation was made in New York City by the Consul General Bernhard Edler von der Planitz on
behalf of Germany’s President, Johannes Rau. Erickson was cited for his sustained commitment to
enhancing German-American collaboration in scientific and scholarly research, his broad interests
in German history and culture, and his involvement with German music, especially that of Bach, as
both a scholar and performer.
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John Graziano won the Lowens Article Award for "The Early Life and Career of the
‘Black Patti’: The Odyssey of an Africa American Singer in the Late Nineteenth Century."
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Ellie Hisama received a Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation and a faculty fellowship from the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities for her
project "Popular Music and the Politics of Sound."
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Richard Kramer won the 2002 Eva Judd O’Meara Award of the Music Library Association
for his review of the volume of sketches in the Neue Mozart Ausgabe (Notes, 57/1 [September 2000]).
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Tania León received an honorary doctorate from Oberlin College in May.
