The Department of Music is proud to share the news that Benjamin Teitelbaum (PhD '13, Ethnomusicology) received tenure and the rank of Associate Professor of Musicology and International Affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Music and Multimedia Composition PhD Marcel Sagesser successfully defended his dissertation “Within the Grid: Inquiries in the Socio-Rhythmic Ambiguities of Mechanical Time.” In his doctoral research, he investigates rhythm with an interdisciplinary framework that encompasses the socio-cultural background of groove and the politics of playing along mechanical time. His artistic practice ranges from “living installations” with human performers carrying sound objects through outdoor sites, to multimedia solo performances that he calls “post techno beat music.” 

The Department of Music Welcomes Gila Goldstein as director of piano performance in the Applied Music Program for 2021-22 academic year. Ms. Goldstein will oversee all classical piano performance students in the Applied Music Program as well as teach a set of students directly.

This week, Luis Achondo successfully defended his dissertation, "The Sounds of Aguante: Sonic (Anti)sociality, Transnationalism, and Violent Conflict in the Soccer Culture of the Southern Cone." Drawing on ethnographic material from long-term fieldwork in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, his dissertation examines the ontological overlap of sociality and anti-sociality in the sonic practices of the transnational soccer fandom of the Latin American Southern Cone.