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...
Photo: Victor Nechy After a historic 15-month shutdown, Broadway shows are steadily reopening throughout September. Mason Gross alumni Ben Jeffrey (The Lion King), Rachel Zatcoff (Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, pictured), musicians John DiSanto and David Ashton, and...
Yerko Difonis is the first student born blind and partially deaf to pursue a master of music in piano performance at Mason Gross School of the Arts. A process developed by Rutgers to transcribe music to braille for the prodigy will open doors for other musicians with disabilities.
Photo: Left – Adrienne Baker, a member of The Broadway Sinfonietta and a doctoral student at Mason Gross, played in Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical’s orchestra. Photo courtesy of Adrienne Baker. Right – Kevin Chamberlin, a three-time Tony Award...
Jason Geary, dean of the Mason Gross School and Distinguished Professor of Music, recently had chapters appear in The Cambridge Companion to Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen and Richard Strauss in Context, both published by Cambridge University Press. Both...
“I know of so many people in music schools, and people who have jobs in orchestras later on, who develop medical issues from singing or playing, and it’s so hard to find doctors who understand what it means to spend five hours in the practice room,” says Palm. “It...
Richard Deane played his last concert with the New York Philharmonic on March 12, and then, like the rest of the city, hunkered down to endure the COVID-19 crisis. Four months later, with New York reeling in the pandemic’s aftermath, Deane, the orchestra’s principal...
A Secret Code to feature works for solo voice and electronics Pamela Z’s sound contains multitudes: The composer/performer/media artist designs soundscapes, generating rich environments where the sounds of found objects such as a ringing telephone or trickling water...
Join the Rutgers Jazz Ensemble, Rutgers Mingus Ensemble, and Rutgers Chamber Jazz Ensembles for a series of virtual events featuring music from Charles Mingus, Walter White, William Fielder, and more.
MM percussion student and BM alum Andrew Bambridge is featured on WNET’s All Arts Rising Artist series this week. The series profiles creative student talent at NYC area universities. The six-minute video and accompanying article feature the musician as he...