Cynthia Lee Wong wins the 2007 Robert Starer Composition Award for "On Baldness and Other 
Songs" for Soprano and Orchestra. Excepts of this work may be found at http://www.cynthialeewong.com.

 

Upcoming dissertation defenses:
     Fernando Hashimoto will defend his dissertation on Wednesday, May, 14, 2008 at 2:00 pm in the Music Thesis Room (3102.06). The title of his dissertation is “Variations on Two Rows for Percussion and Strings by Eleazar de Carvalho: a Critical Edition and Study."
 

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.