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...
Three Music alumni are performing in pit orchestras this fall: Mariana Ramirez plays electronic percussion and midi keyboard for SIX: The Musical on Broadway; Mikayla Bertelsen plays an array of orchestral percussion instruments with the Broadway Sinfonietta on a...
Self-described “theater nerd” and “archive rat” Amanda Eubanks Winkler, the new director of our Music Department, shares what inspired her to study English music and theater.
Acclaimed music scholar Amanda Eubanks Winkler is set to join Mason Gross School of the Arts as a professor and the director of the Music Department, effective July 1, 2023.Eubanks Winkler comes to Rutgers from Syracuse University, where she currently serves as...
Introduced at the start of the fall 2022 semester, “Interplay” is designed to bring all five departments together to focus on the themes of play, experimentation, and exploration.
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...
“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...