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Honors and Awards, 2007-2008

GRADUATE STUDENTS

SENTIENLA TOY
The Torch Fellowship (Nagaland)

Honors and Awards, 2006-2007

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

DUSTIN PESKURIC
Elaine R. Brody Prize

ZACHARY REDLER
Hanna van Vollenhollen Vories Memorial Prize

Dean's Undergraduate Research Grant

TIFFANY YOUNG
Gustave Reese Memorial Prize

GRADUATE STUDENTS

TES SLOMINSKI
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Ireland)

ERIC USNER
Dean's Dissertation Fellowship

Honors and Awards, 2005-2006

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

DANIEL CALLAHAN
Beinecke Graduate Study Fellowship

GRADUATE STUDENTS

RACHEL COUPE
Dean's Dissertation Fellowship

MONICA HAIRSTON
Ford Foundation Graduate Fellowship
Joan R. Heller Dissertation Prize (for dissertations in progress) administered by the Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies (NYU)
Patricia Dunn Lehrman Graduate Fellowship (NYU)

RACHEL LEARS
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship (Colombia)

PAULA MATTHUSEN
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship (Germany)

ERIC USNER
Social Science Research Council, International
Dissertation Research Fellowship (Vienna)

Honors and Awards, 2004-2005

GRADUATE STUDENTS

DANIEL BELIAVSKY
Named to the national advisory board of the Piano Arts National Concerto and Solo Competition with fellow Steinway Artists Alexander Toradze, Christopher Taylor, David Dubal, and Jeffrey Seigel - CD release entitled "Ecstasy and Poetry", featuring numerous piano pieces by Schubert and Chopin and a conversation with the esteemed Professor of Music Ulysses Kidgi

MICHAEL BIRENBAUM-QUINTERO
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship 2004-05 (Colombia) Quintero

THOMAS BRETT
Dean's Dissertation Fellowship 2004-05

MICHAEL GALLOPE
Mellon Fellowship 2004-05

GINA GENOVA
ASCAP Deems-Taylor award December 2004, for Naxos CD liner notes on composer Joseph Achron for his Violin Concerto

EDWARD GREEN
Recipient of a "Music Alive!" grant conjointly awarded by the American Symphony Orchestra League and Meet the Composer.

DAVID MCMULLIN
Czech composers group Atelier 90 honored me with a concert of seven of my works in Prague, including a world premiere commissioned for the occasion, 3 December 2004 - The Fama Quartet of Prague has since commissioned me to write two new works for them, and new works have also been - Commissions from the Firebird Ensemble of Boston, and the Essex Chamber Music Players of Haverhill, MA.

CHRISTOPHER MURRAY
Translation of Alexandre Dupuoy's Jules Pascin, September 2004

DANIEL NEELY
Dean's Dissertation Fellowship 2004-05

BRETT PYPER
Social Science Research Council Fellowship for International Field Research 2004-05 (South Africa)

Honors and Awards, 2003-2004

STAFF

PAULINE LUM
NYU Violet Award for "employees who exemplify the spirit of the University through the quality of their job performance and their service to others." President John Sexton hosted a reception in the recipients' honor on

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

DANIEL CALLAHAN
The Elaine R. Brody Prize (awarded to an outstanding student in the Junior class)

MICHAEL FRAM
Hanna von Vollenhollen Memorial Prize in Music (awarded to an accomplished major in the senior class)
The New York Community Trust Murray Hidary Research Scholar, a fund administered as a part of the Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund (Matthew Santirocco, Dean of the CAS). His project is entitled The Verlaine Settings of Gabriel Faur and Claude Debussy: A Comparative Study in Prosody, (Advisor: Rena Mueller).

MEGAN WEINER
The Gustave Reese Prize (awarded to a student proficient in music who performs for students and faculty)
Tuesday, May 4 in The Kimmel Center, Room 802.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

JENNY OLIVIA JOHNSON
Selected for 2005 Composers' Readings in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, February 2005, organized by orchestra de ereprijs in Apeldoorn and the GAUDEAMUS Foundation in Amsterdam.
Prix de Composition, American Academy in Fontainebleau, France, Summer 2004
Prix Tournon-Branly de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Fontainebleau, France, Summer 2004

PAULA MATTHUSEN
Atlantic Center for the Arts grant, Fall 2004

SOPHOCLES PAPVASILOPOULOS
MacDowell grant, 2005

CHRISTOPHER ARIZA
Fulbright grant in Computer Sciences for the Netherlands at the Institute of Sonology, the Hague, under the title, Musical Implications of Software Design: Data Abstraction and Design Frameworks of Computer Aided Algorithmic Music Composition Systems, 2004-05.

JOYCE HUGHES
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 2003-4

MICHAEL BIRENBAUM QUINTERO
Fulbright IIE Fellowship for dissertation field research in Colombia.

BRETT PYPER
"Outstanding Teacher Award." He was honored by Dean Santirocco in an ceremony on May 5th.

RACHEL COUPE
GSAS Summer Prodoctoral Fellowship.

DANIEL BELIAVSKY
Released his second commercial CD on the Sonatabop.com record label, entitled From Italy to Russia. It features three D. Scarlatti sonatas, J.S. Bach's Italian Concerto, and M. Mussorgsky's Pictures from an Exhibition. The disc also features a unique conversation about Pictures with the esteemed Professor Ulysses Kidgi.

ED GREENE
Named one of 9 recipients nation-wide of a "Music Alive!" composer-in-residence grant by the American Symphony Orchestra League. He will be in residence with the InterSchools Orchestras of New York.
"Concerto for Saxophone and Strings" will be performed in Moscow in June by Dale Underwood and the Kremlin Chamber Orchestra
His Overture in G will be given its premiere (in NYC) next January by the Musica Bella Orchestra.

PAULA MATTHUSEN
Morton Gould AASCAP award.
A composition was accepted by the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, April 1-3 '04
2003 Commission from the Ballet Frankfurt (Germany) for a 45 minutes work for dancers and electronics.

CHRISTOPHER ARIZA
Finalist, 25th Concorso Internazionale "Luigi Russolo" 2003 (Varese, Settembre 2003 - Civico Liceo Musicale)
2004 Fellowship to June in Buffalo Composers Conference

MELVIN BUTLER
Hired as an Assistant Professor, University of Virginia McIntire Department of Music
2004-05 Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellowship, Dartmouth University

THOMAS BRETT
Shortell Holtzer Fellowship for Dissertation writing, 2004-05

DANIEL NEELY
Dean's Dissertation Fellowship for 2004-05

SPENCER SCHEDLER
2003 Jerome Foundation Commissioning Grant for a new work to be performed by the Clinton Narboni Duo and the Pendulum Percussion Duo. The commissioning awards are given each year through a national competition sponsored by the American Composers Forum.
2004 Fellowship to the MacDowell Colony

MARIA ROSE
Fellowship at the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, NYU, 2003-04.

JONATHAN SAGGAU
2004 Fellowship to June in Buffalo Composers Conference

MICHAEL BIRENBAUM QUINTERO
NYU President's Service Award

FACULTY

JAN LARUE (emeritus)
Inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October of this year.

GAGE AVERILL
Oxford University, Faculty appointment on the Oxford Discovery Program, Queen Mary II

LOUIS KARCHIN
Guggenheim Museum commission for a song based on the poetry of Paul Auster
Fromm Foundation (Harvard) commission for a new orchestra piece
NYU Research Challenge Fund grand

Honors and Awards, 2002-2003

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

MELISSA VAN VEEN
The Julia C. Schieffelin Research Scholar Fellowship (Dean's Undergraduate Research Grant) for 2003-04

DANIEL CALLAHAN
The Murry Hidary Research Scholar Fellowship (Dean's Undergraduate Research Grant) for 2003-04

MICHAEL CHIARAMONTE
Hanna van Vollenhollen Memorial Prize in Music (senior music major)
Departmental Honors

GRADUATE STUDENTS

DANIEL BELIAVSKY
CD entitled "The Complete Works for Solo Piano of Lukas Foss, released Dec. 2002

AMY BROSIUS
FLAS Italian Study Grant (Summer 2002 not listed last year)

MELVIN BUTLER
GSAS Dean's Dissertation Fellowship

SCOTT CURRIE
Dean's Dissertation Fellowship 2002-2003

GINA GENOVA
Paper entitled "Preserving Sacred Bridges: Musical Memories and New Directions," Shaol Pozez Memorial Lecture Series, sponsored by the University of Arizona Judaic Studies Program (October 2002)

DAVID GORDON
Fellowship, Oregon Bach Festival (2002)
Honors Distinction, Waging Peace Through Singing international composition competition, for Elegy for the Victims of 9/11, for mixed chorus (2002)

TALIA JIMENEZ-RAMIREZ
Dissertation Grant from the Mexican "Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes" (FONCA), 2002-2003
Graduate Assistantship at the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at NYU (2002-2003)

LUCA MAZZUCCO
GSAS Dissertation Fellowship

DANIEL T. NEELY
Fulbright Research Fellowship 2002-2003 (Jamaica)
Mellon Dissertation Research Fellowship (C.L.I.R.) 2002-03

MARIA ROSE
Alternate, GSAS Dean's Dissertation Fellowship
Mellon Dissertation Research Fellowship (C.L.I.R.) 2002-03
Noah Greenberg Award November from the American Musicological Society, for outstanding contribution to historical performance practices (November 2002)

JENNIFER ROTH-BURNETTE
Dean's Dissertation Fellowship 2002-03
Paper entitled " 'Ars memoriae' and the Creation of Parisian Organum" at national meeting of the American Musicological Society (November 2002)

ULI SAILER
President's Service Award, 2002

JULIANA TRIVERS
Performances of "The Cauldron of Morning" in 2003 World Music Days in Slovenia
Performance of "restore" at June In Buffalo, selected for inclusion in festival
Winner, 2003 ISCM/League of Composers Competition
Winner, PRISM Quartet Composition Competition (premiere of commission 5/18/02

FACULTY

ROBERT BAILEY
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Visiting Professor of Music at Tulane University, spring 2003

MICHAEL BECKERMAN
Dvorak Society, Honorary Membership
Appointed Visiting Professor at Central European University, Summer 2003

STANLEY BOORMAN
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for 2002-03

MARTIN CHUSID
A double issue of the periodical The Verdi Forum was dedicated to Professor Chusid.

SUZANNE CUSICK
Keynote Address, Performance as Research, Musicology Society of Australia, 10/1/02
Keynote address, Listening to the Dead, CUNY Graduate Students Conference, 4/5/03
Keynote address, Listening to the Dead: Toward a Multivocal Musicology, Musicology Society of Finland, University of Turku, 5/16/03

MERCEDES DUJUNCO
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Grant

ELIZABETH HOFFMAN
NYU Research Challenge Fund Grant for 2002-3
Commission from Dominic Donato: solo tam-tam work for premiere 2003-04 season.

LOUIS KARCHIN
The Maurice Abravanel Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Utah, Fall 2002

JAN LARUE (emeritus)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Honors and Awards, 2001-2002

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

DANIEL CALLAHAN
Deans Undergraduate Research Grant

GRADUATE STUDENTS

MELVIN BUTLER
Fulbright IIE Fellowship to study Pentacostal music in Jamaica during the 2001-2002 academic year
MACSEM (Middle Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology) Pantaleoni Prize for best student paper


SCOTT CURRIE
Dean's Dissertation Fellowship 2002-03

JENNIFER ROTH-BURNETTE
Dean's Dissertation Fellowship 2002-03

SANDRA GRAHAM
Assistant Professor, University of California - Davis
Wiley Housewright Prize for the Best Dissertation in American Music, 2001 (Society for American Music)

DAVID GORDON
Fellowship, Oregon Bach Festival (2002)
Honors, Waging Peace Through Singing international competition, for Elegy for the Victims of 9/11, for mixed chorus

DANIEL NEELY
Andrew Mellon Fellowship 2002-2003
Fulbright Award Jamaica 2002-2003

ULI SAILER
President's Service Award

SPENCER SCHEDLER
First Prize, New Music for Young Ensembles National Competition
MacDowell Colony Residency, Summer, 2002

MARIA ROSE
Andrew Mellon Fellowship 2002-2003

FREDERICK MOEHN
Assistant Professor, SUNY-Stony Brook

AMY DAKEN
Tinker Summer Research Grant for summer research in Cuba and Puerto Rico

THOMAS BRETT
GSAS Summer Pre-Doctoral Award (2002)

MICHAEL BIRENBAUM-QUINTERO
Tinker Summer Research Grant for summer research in Colombia

AMY BROSIUS
Italian Study Grant (Summer 2002), FLAS

TALIA JIMENEZ-RAMIREZ
Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge Graduate Assistantship 2002-2003

CHRISTOPHER ARIZA
2002 BMI Student Composer Award, for "the square perfected has no corner" for percussion quartet

WINNIE LEE
Summer 2002 Eastern Consortium in Persian and Turkish at NYU

MARION JACOBSON
Intern, Center for Jewish Learning and Leadership 2002-2003

FACULTY

GAGE AVERlLL
Golden Dozen Teaching Award

ELIZABETH HOFFMAN
Commission award, Sonic Circuits International Festival of Electronic Music and Art
Honorary Mention, Florida chapter, International Society for Computer Music, World Music Days, 2002.

Honors and Awards, 2000-2001

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

DANIEL JENKINS
Gustave Reese Memorial Prize

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Christopher Ariza
2001 BMI Student Composer Award

Sean Carson
Second Prize in the 2000 Greater Boston Choral Consortium Competition for his choral work, Kyrie L. A. is on Fire

A. Scott Currie
German Marshall Fund Research Fellowship for study in Berlin during the academic year 2001-2002.

DAVID GORDON
Fellowship, Wellesley Composers Conference

Sandra Graham
Society of American Music Dissertation Award for the year

Janet Hathaway
Dean's Dissertation Award 2001

Joyce Hughes
GSAS-FLAS Language Study Grant (INDIA)

Marion Jacobson
Irving D. Klein Memorial Fellow at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research for 2001.
Memorial Foundation Doctoral Scholarship for 2001-2002

William Kingswood
GSAS-CLACS Tinker Field Research Grant

David McMullin
2001 Morton Gould ASCAP Award for his choral work Magnificat

Luca Mazzucco
GSAS Summer Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

Dan Neely
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies travel grant
GSAS pre-dissertation travel award for a research trip to Jamaica to study mento.

Talia Jimenez-Ramirez
2001 NIA Award from The NYU Office for African American, Latino and Asian American Student Services & JP Morgan Chase
GSAS Graduate Forum participant for Spring 2001
Arthur Schomburg Award for Excellence in the umanities (NYU-NIA)
Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture, Program for Cultural Cooperation

GLORIA LEE PAK
Korea Foundation Korean Studies Graduate Scholarship Program for 2000-2001
GSAS Summer Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

ULI SAILER
DAAD/German Academic Exchange Service.

SPENCER SCHEDLER
2001 Eighth International Mozart Composition Competition, solo piano division.

FACULTY

GAGE AVERILL
Five Colleges Visiting Music Scholar (Massachusetts), March 2001

LOUIS KARCHIN
Barlow Endowment Commission, new work for baritone voice and chamber ensemble, Earplay Ensemble (San Francisco)
Goddard Lieberson Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Letters
Selected for "Great Day in New York" Photo/Film Shoot and Festival, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

ELIZABETH HOFFMAN
Golden Dozen teaching award
commission award, International Computer Music Association





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