Ithaca College Department of Composition and Music Studies

Ithaca College Department of Composition and Music Studies Information regarding events and activities dedicated to music theory, music history, and composition at the Ithaca College School of Music.

Jorge Grossmann, Professor of Composition, recently returned from his sabbatical during which he continued his research ...
04/22/2026

Jorge Grossmann, Professor of Composition, recently returned from his sabbatical during which he continued his research on and composition of music based on South American pre-Columbian musical instruments and the tuning systems of the Nazca civilization of ancient Peru. For more information on this music go here: https://shadowofthevoices.com/pre-columbian-instruments Dr. Grossmann also presented lectures on his music at the Paris Conservatoire, the Kunst Universität Graz, and the MDW – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Sara Haefeli, Professor of Musicology, has received an Ithaca College Faculty Excellence Award for Overall Excellence in...
04/21/2026

Sara Haefeli, Professor of Musicology, has received an Ithaca College Faculty Excellence Award for Overall Excellence in Teaching, Service, and Research! She's shown here with (L to R) Ithaca College President La Jerne Terry Cornish, Provost Melanie Stein, and CAMS Department chair Peter Silberman. Congratulations, Sara!

The East Asian Music in the Contemporary World Initiative will present a concerted entitled "Re/Sonic - New Music for Ea...
04/15/2026

The East Asian Music in the Contemporary World Initiative will present a concerted entitled "Re/Sonic - New Music for East Asian Instruments" on Monday, April 20, at 7 pm in the Hockett Family Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.

Elizabeth Medina-Gray, Associate Professor of Music Theory, is spending April 13 - 15 at Indiana University's Jacobs Sch...
04/13/2026

Elizabeth Medina-Gray, Associate Professor of Music Theory, is spending April 13 - 15 at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music as part of the Robert Samuels Visiting Scholar Program, within the Five Friends Masterclass Series. Dr. Medina-Gray will present a lecture for a general audience, "Musical Sound Effects (and Sound-Effect Music) in Video Games;" a lecture for the music theory department's colloquium series, "Aesthetics, Physicality, and Meaning through Speech-like Sounds without Language: Exploring the Synthesized Voice Sounds in Celeste;" guest teach two graduate level courses; and meet with individual graduate students. For more information see https://blogs.iu.edu/jsommusictheory/five-friends/ and https://blogs.iu.edu/jsommusictheory/about/colloquium/

The Department of Composition and Music Studies is co-sponsoring (along with Ithaca College Hillel) a showing of the doc...
04/13/2026

The Department of Composition and Music Studies is co-sponsoring (along with Ithaca College Hillel) a showing of the documentary film "They Played For Their Lives," about eight Holocaust survivors who used their musical talent as a survival tool, including playing in the Auschwitz women's orchestra. The film will be followed by a Q&A session with the director, Nurit Jugend. The film will be shown in Textor 101 on the Ithaca College campus on Tuesday, April 14, at 6:30 pm. The showing is free and open to the public. You can see trailer for this film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCwNVAuGlI8

We're so proud of, Sara Haefeli, Professor of Musicology, who is spending the week at Oklahoma City University's School ...
04/09/2026

We're so proud of, Sara Haefeli, Professor of Musicology, who is spending the week at Oklahoma City University's School of Music! Dr. Haefeli will be speaking about her work as lead author on the upcoming 11th edition of A History of Western Music, visiting the Orchestral Literature class to discuss 19th-century American symphonists, and joining the Composer's Forum to explore the limits of notation through Caroline Shaw's Partita for 8 Voices. She'll wrap up the week by delivering the keynote lecture at Saturday's Teaching Music History Workshop for music educators across the region. Way to represent, Dr. Haefeli!

Nicolas Chuaqui, Assistant Professor of Composition and Electronic Music, has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the T...
02/24/2026

Nicolas Chuaqui, Assistant Professor of Composition and Electronic Music, has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the Tribeca New Music Young Composer Competition for his work Vox Clamantis in Nemore for clarinet and electronics. The honorable mention “recognizes the top tier of compositions that were in contention for the first prize.” Vox has also been selected by the MISE-EN Festival (June 16-20, New York City), along with 34 other works out of 889 international submissions. The piece will receive its Ithaca College premiere by Professor Richard Faria on March 7th in Hockett Hall at 1pm. For more information see here: https://www.tribecanewmusic.org/2026results

Jorge Grossmann, Professor of Composition, has been awarded an Ithaca College Dana Professorship beginning in Fall 2026....
02/11/2026

Jorge Grossmann, Professor of Composition, has been awarded an Ithaca College Dana Professorship beginning in Fall 2026. The Dana Professorship is a highly competitive fellowship given to faculty members who have produced exceptional scholarly or creative work, and is held for a five-year period. Congratulations, Jorge!

Timothy Johnson, Professor Emeritus of Music Theory, published an article about Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices in ...
01/20/2026

Timothy Johnson, Professor Emeritus of Music Theory, published an article about Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices in Music Theory Online. As with much of his prior scholarship in which he draws relationships between music and outside fields, including baseball, mathematics, history, and politics, this article focuses on music analysis in the context of visual arts. His article, “Lines and Points: Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices and Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings,” explores Shaw’s Pulitzer-prize winning piece in connection with the art that inspired it. The photo shows Prof. Johnson in front of one of LeWitt's drawings at MASS MoCA. You can access the article here: https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.25.31.4/toc.31.4.php

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