Mason Gross School of the Arts is partnering with the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the Rutgers School of Engineering on a multimedia concert event, Deep Blue: The Beauty of Our Water World, set to debut 7:30 p.m. Friday, December 9,...
“I am concerned with the historical processes, both visible and invisible, that shape performance traditions, musical imagination, and compositional strategies, as well as theoretical inquiries.” Dr. Nancy Yunhwa Rao is a music theorist and musicologist...
Abdon Andahur has been singing for as long as he can remember, and now he hopes to raise his voice to make big changes in the world.
Steven Kemper, interim director of the Music Department and head of music technology, has partnered with NJ Advance Media and the New Jersey Youth Symphony to create the soundtrack for In Memoriam: COVID in New Jersey, an interactive memorial dedicated to the more...
Last July, Julia Baumanis, assistant director of bands and director of pep bands, became the first woman band director at Rutgers University in the school’s 255-year history. According to her research on programs accredited by the National Association of Schools of...
Alumni Tom Nazziola (left) and Peter Martin Music alumni Tom Nazziola and Peter Martin, as well as faculty member and jazz pianist Bill O’Connell, are nominated for Grammy Awards this year. “Cat & Mouse,” written by Nazziola, a composer and...
Photos courtesy of Javier Diaz Percussion instructor Javier Diaz originally was tapped just to play rehearsals for one of the most iconic scenes in Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed West Side Story remake. But Diaz – who has wowed audiences of philharmonic orchestras,...
Aaron Vaders-Collins is a first-year doctoral student at Mason Gross School of the Arts pursuing a degree in music composition and the emerging field of ludomusicology, the scholarly analysis of video game music. A mashup of technology and music theory, engineering, and production, the subject is a perfect blend of Vaders-Collins’s interests.
Composer Tom Nazziola, a 2019 PhD graduate, has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Instrumental Composition category for “Cat and Mouse,” a piece from his 2021 album Distant Places. Nazziola describes the album as “a collection of works...
Music alumni Osiris (Ozzy) Molina and Adonis Gonzalez-Matos have teamed up to create Cuba, Alabama, an album of contemporary Cuban music. The title is both a play on an actual town in Alabama and a reflection of the coincidences that brought them together in a most...