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Since its establishment in 1923, the Department of Music at New York University has held a central position in American music scholarship. NYU faculty member Gustave Reese was one of the founding members of The American Musicological Society in 1934, and by mid-century the department had attracted a world-renowned group of scholars and musicians, from the pioneering musicologist Curt Sachs to the popular composer Percy Grainger. Building on this legacy, the Department established its ethnomusicology sub-field in 1978, and has since grown into one of the country’s most exciting, intellectually vibrant centers for the interdisciplinary study of music and sound. The NYU Department of Music offers studies in historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and composition and theory at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. With its leading research faculty, the Department grants degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. The Department also sponsors a colloquium series, musical ensembles, graduate and undergraduate concerts, the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society concert series, and a range of interdisciplinary symposia/conferences. Our facilities include early and world music instrument collections, two cutting-edge technology labs that provide digital resources for composition and research, and the Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media. Read more.

Please join us in congratulating Professor Louis Karchin and graduate student Wang Jie. Both have received 2012 Music Awards from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Professor Louis Karchin received the Andrew Imbrie Award, given to a composer of demonstrated artistic merit.

Graduate Student Wang Jie received a Charles Ives Scholarship, given to composition students of great promise.