May 2022 Newsletter
Our final newsletter of the academic year includes an interview of graduating senior Maude Latour, updates from our associates, a Spring 2022 event recap, and our best wishes to the graduating Class of 2022.
Our final newsletter of the academic year includes an interview of graduating senior Maude Latour, updates from our associates, a Spring 2022 event recap, and our best wishes to the graduating Class of 2022.
Magdalena Stern-Baczewska (Director, MPP), together with clarinetist Carol McGonnel and Orchestre de Chambre du Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau, gave a U.S. premiere of Charles Fox's Fantaisie for Clarinet, Piano, and Orchestra, with the composer at the podium.
On Friday, May 6th, the Columbia University Music Performance Program presented United for Peace, a concert in solidarity with Ukraine, in St. Paul's Chapel, featuring the faculty artists of the Music Performance Program, the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, and Barnard College.
The Spring semester in the MPP has been brimming with activity. Our student musicians recently appeared in a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, treating the audience to exhilarating and thoughtfully prepared performances. We are full of gratitude for our terrific Music Associates, who have mentored the MPP students with true dedication.
On November 9, 2019, Magdalena Stern-Baczewska (Director, Music Performance Program) gave the Canadian premiere of Tan Dun's Piano Concerto "The Banquet" with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the composer conducting.
The students of the Music Performance Program performed at the annual MPP concert at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on April 15th, having won the opportunity to participate through a live audition earlier this year.
From left to right: Joe Block, pianist; Daniel Mesko, drums; John (Jack) Aylor, bass; Aaron Kranzler, alto sax; Liam Broderick, guitar; James Haddad, trumpet.
Magdalena Stern-Baczewska (Director, Music Performance Program) gave a performance at the Opera House of Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music, celebrating the DVD release of Tan Dun's Martial Arts Cycle for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello.
We proudly announce our new partnership with Columbia's Maison Française! The new concert series, called M@MF, will feature our outstanding MPP participants to share rich music at such an amazing venue, which is located between and near Low Library and St. Paul's Chapel.
Columbia's esteemed Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition and director of the Fritz Reiner Center, Alfred Lerdahl, will be presenting the New York Premiere of Time and Again with the League of Composers Orchestra
Come help us celebrate Prokofiev's first concert in New York City! Auditions in November
Chris Washburne's newest CD release and review: Rags & Roots
DALIT WARSHAW, composer and JOSEPH MORAG, violinist in SPEAKmusic Event! Join on March 28th at Cornelia St. Cafe!