Brandon Mejia, who is on track to graduate in May 2025 with majors in jazz performance and information technology, will serve as one of the speakers at an induction ceremony for Tri-Alpha, the national first-generation honor society.
Classical composition alum Brian Landrus (PhD’19) is having a banner year: Not only has the sax player been appointed associate professor of jazz composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston; he also released an album awarded a five-star review by DownBeat...
Class of 2028 jazz piano student Seraphina Taylor remembers when the music of pianist Thelonious Monk made its way to her Spotify “recommended-for-you” playlist. She was already listening to the likes of Bernard Wright and Don Blackman, but Monk was at...
Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Distinguished Professor and head of music theory, is one of three Rutgers professors elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) this year. Rao is included in the Humanities and Arts in the Field of Performing Arts category for her...
Mal Malone knew she was a musician long before she knew she was a trans woman.Nearly a decade after picking up the recorder in elementary school, the Mason Gross School of the Arts bass trombone player embraced her full identity as a queer musician last year.After...
Jersey Jazz, the magazine of the New Jersey Jazz Society, features the Rutgers Jazz Lab Big Band’s performance of Duke Ellington’s Black, Brown, and Beige on February 28, 2024, at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, as its Editor’s Choice in...
The Marching Scarlet Knights marched down Fifth Avenue in front of a crowd of 3.5 million—with another 27 million watching from the comfort of their couches—as they performed in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this year.For the 360 members of the...
Jessie Mersinger remembers her high school band days as “life changing.”“I had a beautiful experience,” says Mersinger, a 2018 Rutgers graduate who earned a doctoral degree in French horn from Mason Gross School of the Arts. “I had a...
On November 15, 2023, Rutgers University’s Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes (CACP) honored Julia Baumanis (second from left, above) Torchbearer Award. According to CACP, the Torchbearer Award recognizes those who work to further “diversity,...
Composer and pianist Courtney Bryan, who earned a master’s degree in music from Mason Gross School of the Arts, was named today as member of the 2023 Class of MacArthur Fellows.The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has administered the prestigious...