On Thursday, March 19th at 1pm, Elebash Winds presents “Romancing Winds,” a recital of chamber works by Mozart and Schumann, as part of the Music in Midtown series. The program includes Mozart’s Quintet in E-flat Major, K.452 and various “Romances” by Schumann.
Congratulations to Janhavi Phansalkar (Ethnomusicology) who was awarded the Dr. Louise Lennihan Grant as part of the 2025 Futures Initiative! The 2025 Futures Initiative Digital Poster Showcase is now published, and can now be viewed at the link below:
flipbook.futuresinitiative.org/fi-fall-25-p...
On Tuesday, March 17th at 7:30pm, pianist and GC faculty member Nicolas Namoradze performs an all-Beethoven program in Elebash Hall. Works include the Piano Sonata in F Major, Op. 54, Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 106 (“Hammerklavier”) and Namoradze’s own arrangement of the Große Fuge, Op. 133.
On Monday, March 16th at 7pm in Elebash Hall, the Graduate Center composition department is very excited to present the results of a collaboration between GC Composers and the renowned vocal ensemble, Ekmeles! Works by: Emily Green
Nathaniel Otley, Julio Quiñones, Kevin Su, Nicholas Tran, Qi Xia.
Congratulations to GC alumnus Stephen Spencer (2024, Music Theory and Composition) who was featured in the March issue of The New Yorker in an article entitled “Meet the Dad Making Music from Toddler Twaddle”! Read here:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Image Credit: João Fazenda, The New Yorker
On Friday, March 13th at 6pm, DMA pianist Christian Verfenstein performs in Elebash Hall. The program will feature Bach’s Toccata in D minor, BWV 913, Haydn’s Sonata in A-flat major, Hob. XVI:43, Liszt’s Dante Sonata, Judith Lang Zaimont’s “Wizards”, and Ravel’s La Valse.
Congratulations to Distinguished Prof. Emerita Tania León and Prof. Suzanne Farrin who have each been commissioned to orchestrate a variation of Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated to be performed by the NYPhil, led by Gustavo Dudamel on March 12-17!
www.nyphil.org/concerts-tic...
The 29th edition of GSIM will take place on March 6-7, 2026, featuring a keynote from Miriam Piilonen (UMass Amherst) on “Music Theory and Digital Publics," and sessions such as “Reshaping Audiences through Media,” “Inclusive Pedagogy,” and “Gender in Popular Music.”
www.gc.cuny.edu/events/confe...
On Thursday, March 5th at 1pm, the Hermitage Piano Trio presents “Gems for Piano Trio” in Elebash Hall as part of the Music in Midtown series. The program includes Rachmaninoff’s Trio No. 1 in G minor “Elégiaque”, Mariano Perello’s Tres Impresiones, and Brahms’ Piano Trio No.3 in C Minor, Op. 101.
On Tuesday, March 3rd at 7:30pm, DMA violist Cameren Williams presents a recital of solo and duo works in Elebash Hall with pianist Elzbieta Bilicka and violist Rosemary Nelis, featuring works by by Jean-Marie LeClair, Jessie Montgomery, Krzysztof Penderecki, George Rochberg, and G.P. Telemann.
[🔔POSTPONED due to GC building closure through 2/24. New date to be announced soon] On 2/24 at 6pm, DMA violist Cameren Williams presents a recital in Elebash Hall with pianist Elżbieta Bilicka and violist Rosemary Nelis, featuring works by LeClair, Montgomery, Penderecki, Rochberg, and Telemann.
[🔔Rescheduled to Tuesday, 2/24 at 6pm due to the snowstorm ❄️]
DMA violist Cameren Williams presents a recital of solo and duo works in Elebash Hall with pianist Elżbieta Bilicka and violist Rosemary Nelis, featuring works by LeClair, Montgomery, Penderecki, Rochberg, and Telemann.
On Friday, February 27th at 6pm, DMA violinist Emma Meinrenken presents a recital in Elebash Hall with pianist Arseniy Gusev, featuring Bach’s Solo Sonata No. 1 in G minor, Ysaÿe’s Solo Sonata No. 5 in G major, Webster’s Three Pieces for Solo Violin, and Prokofiev’s Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major.
On Monday, February 23rd at 6pm, DMA violist Cameren Williams presents a recital of solo and duo works in Elebash Hall with pianist Elżbieta Bilicka and violist Rosemary Nelis, featuring works by by Jean-Marie LeClair, Jessie Montgomery, Krzysztof Penderecki, George Rochberg, and G.P. Telemann.
On Thursday, February 19th at 1pm, the trio Rule of Three presents "In the Footsteps of Debussy" as part of the Music in Midtown series in Elebash Hall. The program includes the Debussy's Trio for flute, viola, and harp, which was the first significant chamber music for this setting.
Congratulations to Nicholas Tran (Ph.D. candidate in Composition) who has been named among the winners of the Graduate Center’s 2025-2026 Mentoring and Teaching Awards!
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Congratulations to Dr. Nicolas Namoradze (D.M.A. ’20), who has been featured in The New York Times! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/a...
Nicolas will also present a faculty recital at Elebash Hall at the Graduate Center on March 17th at 7:30pm, featuring an all-Beethoven program.
Congratulations to Rebecca Moranis for being awarded the 2025 SMT Student Presentation Award for her paper, “An Analysis of Joni Mitchell’s Vocal Evolution”! An article by Rebecca that is based on this study will appear in an upcoming issue of the journal Theory and Practice.
On Friday, February 6th at 7:30pm, DMA pianist Robert Brooks Carlson presents a recital in Elebash Hall, featuring works by Paderewski, Bartók, Beethoven, Berio, Liszt, Mozart, and Brahms.
[Rescheduled to Tuesday, Jan. 27 due to GC building closure and the inclement weather ❄️]
Flutist Rebecca Moranis and pianist Joseph Vaz present a concert featuring the New York City premiere of three works for flute and piano by Madeline Barrett, alongside works by Maurice Ravel and Claude Vivier.
On Thursday, January 29th at 8pm in Elebash Hall, FAMI presents a concert featuring Anthony Philip Heinrich’s “Sunset Chimes,” William Henry Fry’s String Quartet No. 11, and George Frederick Bristow’s String Quartet No. 2.
For more information: forginganamericanmusicalidentity.org/program
On Monday, January 26th at 7:30pm in Elebash Hall, flutist Rebecca Moranis and pianist Joseph Vaz present a concert featuring the New York City premiere of three works for flute and piano by Madeline Barrett, alongside works by Maurice Ravel and Claude Vivier.
Congratulations to the Terra String Quartet, which includes cellist and GC alumna Audrey Chen, on winning the 2025 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition! The award includes $15,000, a Carnegie Hall recital, a San Francisco Conservatory recital, a commissioned work and a recording of the work.
On Friday, December 12th at 5:30pm, Ph.D. students in Music Theory perform in Elebash Hall, featuring works by Ben Schweitzer, Huang Zi, Guillaume Dufay, Josquin des Prez, J.S. Bach, and W.A. Mozart.
On Thursday, December 11th at 1pm, artists in the DMA Program perform in chamber ensembles for the Music in Midtown series in Elebash Hall. The program will feature Brahms’ Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano; George Crumb’s “Vox Balaenae”; and Radamés Gnattali’s Trio for Two Guitars and Cello.
[Copland House Ensemble: Tangos, Ballads, And Blues...Transformed]
An evening of reimagined tangos, ballads, and more with the renowned artists of the Copland House Ensemble.
For more information and registration, please see: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/copla...
On Monday, December 8th at 7:30pm, musicology Ph.D. candidate Jon De Lucia will present the previously unrecorded music of the original Dave Brubeck Octet in a special recital in Elebash Hall. Guest performers will include Grammy winning soloists Scott Robinson and Brandon Lee.
On Thursday, December 4th at 1pm, artists in the Graduate Center’s DMA program perform in chamber ensembles for the Music in Midtown series in Elebash Hall. The program will feature Bedřich Smetana’s Piano Trio, Op. 15; Valerie Coleman’s “Rubispheres”; and Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, Op.4.
From December 1-3 at the Graduate Center and off-site in Brooklyn on December 5th, Itzá García, Tobías Fandel, and Teté Leguía present “overdrive’4,” the fourth edition of the festival for experimental electronic music and multimedia art.
All events are free and open to the public.
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