The Graduate Center Music Program, CUNY

Congratulations to DMA flutist Yoshi Weinberg on receiving a Fulbright Fellowship to Austria for the 2026-2027 academic year! Yoshi will pursue contemporary music studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz to work with members of the Klangforum Wien ensemble, and to study the compositions of Julius Eastman, a q***r Black composer.

Yoshi credits the Graduate Center’s Fulbright advising team, Rachel Sponzo (Associate Director of Student Research Fellowships), Professor Emily Wilbourne, and Prof. Anne Stone in the competitive application process.

To read more about Yoshi’s research as well as the fellow awardees from the Graduate Center, please see link below:
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/three-graduate-center-students-receive-fulbright-fellowships-research-and-study-abroad

Three Graduate Center Students Receive Fulbright Fellowships for Research and Study Abroad Vincent DeLaurentis, Sato Moughalian, and Yoshi Weinberg will travel to India, Armenia, and Austria for projects exploring labor and urban space, Armenian cultural history, and contemporary classical music.

Congratulations to GC alumna Alice Xue (Ph.D. in Music Theory, ’25) on securing a position as assistant professor of music theory and ear training at Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University!

Alice has been featured in the GC news on landing a job in a challenging academic job market, advice she has for current students, and how her experience at the Graduate Center contributed to her academic journey and recent job search success.

To read the full article and interview, see link below:
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/how-alumna-landed-faculty-role-johns-hopkins-peabody-institute

How an Alumna Landed a Faculty Role at Johns Hopkins’ Peabody Institute Alice Xue shares how she found her scholarly passion and what helped her succeed in a challenging academic job market.

On Sunday, May 31st at 4pm in Elebash Recital Hall, Collide-O-Scope, a NYC-based composer’s collective and new music ensemble, performs four works of Jason Eckardt including “Red Oak” (quercus rubra) (from A Compendium Of Catskill Native Botanicals) (2021); “pulse-echo” (2013); “Reach” (2024); and “Testify” (part III of Passage) (2018).

Collide-O-Scope Music:
Miranda Cuckson, violin
Giancarlo Latta, violin
Jeremy Kienbaum, viola
Elizabeth Kate, cello
Augustus Arnone, piano
Ben Grow, conductor

On Wednesday, May 27th at 5pm, DMA violinist Hyojin Ellen Kim performs with pianist Albert Cano Smit in Elebash Recital Hall. The program features Johannes Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77.

Congratulations to Professor Agustina Checa, on winning the R. Serge Denisoff Award for the best article published in the journal Popular Music and Society for her article, "Safer Covachas—Preserving Digital Music in Cassettes: Grassroots Archiving Practices of Independent Record Labels in Contemporary Argentina”!

To read Prof. Checa's article, please see link below:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03007766.2025.2516992?src=exp-la

On Tuesday, May 19th at 6pm, DMA pianist Elżbieta Bilicka presents a recital in Elebash Hall. The program features Aaron Copland’s “Three moods”; Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana, Op.16; and Alexander Scriabin’s Sonata No.3 in F-sharp minor, Op.23.

On Friday, May 22nd at 6pm, DMA mezzo-soprano Patrice P. Eaton performs with pianist Elizabeth G. Hill in Elebash Recital Hall. The program features Wolfgang A. Mozart’s “Va l’error mio palesa” from Mitridate; Ludwig van Beethoven’s “In questa tomba oscura”; Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s “Se tu m’ami, se sospiri”; Richard Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder; Jorell Williams’ “Civil Rights Songs”; Brandon Waddles’ “Great Day”; Damien Sneed’s “All Night-All Day”; and Evelyn Simpson-Curenton’s “Git on Board.”

On Friday, May 22nd at 12pm, DMA flutist Yoshi Weinberg performs a recital with pianist Daniel Schreiner in Elebash Recital Hall. The program features Henri Dutilleux’s Sonatina; Julius Eastman’s Comp 1 (transcribed by Yoshi Weinberg); Kazuo Fukushima’s Mei; Sofia Gubaidulina’s Sonatina; Kaija Saariaho’s Dolce Tormento; and Ned Rorem’s Four Prayers.

Tonight’s (Friday, 5/15) concert has been RESCHEDULED - new date to be announced soon.

[RESCHEDULED - new date to be announced soon]

On Friday, May 15th at 6pm, DMA pianist Elżbieta Bilicka presents a recital in Elebash Hall. The program features Aaron Copland’s “Three moods”; Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana, Op.16; and Alexander Scriabin’s Sonata No.3 in F-sharp minor, Op.23.

On Monday, May 18th at 12pm, DMA violist Natalie Clarke presents a recital with pianist Amber Ginmi Scherer in Elebash Hall. The program features J.S. Bach’s Chaconne from Partita No.2, BWV 1004; Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Romance for Viola and Piano; Sergei Prokofiev’s Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, Op.64 (arr. Borrisovsky); selections from Gyögy Kurtág’s “Signs, Games, and Messages”; and Kenji Bunch’s “Until Next Time.”