MUSIC Doctoral Program at the CUNY Graduate Center

Announcements: Scholarships and Awards

Robert Starer Composition Award: Students who wish to compete for the Robert Starer Composition Award must submit their score by April 20, 2009. Address any questions to Professor Olan.

Elebash Dissertation Award: Dissertation Awards have been suspended for this round, but smaller awards may be available and will be announced later. This is due to a shortfall in earnings on the endowment caused by the current downturn in the financial markets.

Barry S. Brook Dissertation Award in Music: Students who are defending dissertations in the upcoming months and who wish to have them eligible for the Barry S. Brook Dissertation Award must have defended the dissertation before April 1, 2009. Please note that dissertations defended after that date will be eligible for the 2010 Award and that dissertations must, in any event, be nominated for the award by one's defense committee. Address questions to Professor Olan.   

The Franziska Dorner Fund for Musical Research: The Ph.D./D.M.A. Programs in Music are pleased to announce the establishment of the Franziska Dorner Fund, made possible by a generous donation from Ms. Rhoda Schnur of St. Gallen, Switzerland. The fund will support travel by full-time doctoral students for research or for presentation of their work at scholarly conferences. Proposals should clearly describe the work that is planned, or that has been accomplished, and should comment on its significance. Each proposal must include an itemized budget. Priority will be given to dissertation research and presentation of papers drawn from dissertations. Students who have received a Doctoral Students Research Grant for 2009 are not eligible to apply to the Dorner Fund in this round.

Applicants should submit five copies of their proposals to the Music Program Office no later than May 1, 2009; decisions will be announced around May 15.

Higini Anglès Dissertation Award: The Foundation for Iberian Music, a project of the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation of The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, is pleased to announce the establishment of the Higini Anglès Dissertation Award. Named after the eminent Catalan musicologist Higini Anglès (1888-1969), this prize of $1000 is awarded to a student of the music programs of The CUNY Graduate Center who has completed a dissertation on a subject that is in line with the mission of the Foundation for Iberian Music. The dissertation committee of the Music Programs will nominate candidates for the award. The director of the Foundation for Iberian Music, in consultation with the director of the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and members of the faculty of The Graduate Center’s Music Programs, determines eligible dissertations and selects award recipients.

The following people won awards in the past:

Barry Brook Award

2009: Quynh T. Nguyen f“An analysis of Olivier Messiaen’s Last Piano Solo Work: Les Petites Esquisses d’Oiseaux.”

2008: Jadranka Važanová "Svadobné nôty: Ceremonial Wedding Tunes in the Context of Slovak Traditional Culture."

2007: Kyle Adams "A New Theory of Chromaticism from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Eighteenth Century"

2006: Cathy Ragland “Ni Aquí ni Allá (Neither Here nor There): Música Norte a and the Mexican Working-Class Diaspora”

2005: Channan Willner, “Durational Pacing in Handel’s Instrumental Works: the Nature of Temporality in Music of the High Baroque.”

2004: Marva Duerksen "Organicism and Music Analysis: Three Case Studies," and Philip Stoecker, "Studies in Post-Tonal Symmetry: A Transformational Approach."

2003: David Garcia "Arsenio Rodriquez: A Black Cuban Musician in the Dance Music Milieus of Havana, New York City, and Los Angeles."

2002: Marc Thorman "Speech and Text in Compositions by John Cage, 1950-1992," and Andrew White, "Good Invention Repaid with Interest: The Importance of Borrowing in Bach's Compositional Practice."

Robert Starer Award

2009: Karen Siegel for "Sponge Squeezed Dry" for horn and chorus of mixed voices.

2008: Cynthia Wong, for "On Baldness and Other Songs" for Soprano and Orchestra.

2007: Pedro Malpica, for “Taripakuy,” a trio for flute, cello and piano.

2006: Nathan Bowen, "Cassia" for flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion and piano.

2005: Pat Muchmore, “palimpsest alpha for solo cello and chamber orchestra” and Tolga Tuzun, “Cross-Sections/Kesitler 1. Blueprint for clarinet and piano.”

2004: Michael Capobianco, "String Trio."

2003: Gregg Wramage, "in shadows, in silence" for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, 'Cello, Percussion and Piano.

2002: Scott Ethier, "Spray" for Orchestra.

Higini Anglès Dissertation Award

2006: Mauricio Molina, “Frame Drums in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula”

Other Recent Awards

Lucille Field Goodman Award: Heather Feldman and Julia Grella.

Mario Capelloni Dissertation Fellowship: Stephen Amico

Elebash summer fellowships: Marc. E. Johnson, Andrea Saposnik, and Elizabeth Wollman

Magnet Dissertation Year Fellowship: Catherine Losada

Jewish Foundation for Education of Women: Alessandra Ciucci

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