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Doctoral student delves into video game music in career inspired by Atari

Doctoral student delves into video game music in career inspired by Atari

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.

Alum nominated for 2022 Grammy Award

Alum nominated for 2022 Grammy Award

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...

Alumni team up for album of contemporary Cuban music

Alumni team up for album of contemporary Cuban music

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...

Visually Impaired Pianist Thrives With Support From Mason Gross

Visually Impaired Pianist Thrives With Support From Mason Gross

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.

Music faculty member hits the Road with the NY Phil Bandwagon

Music faculty member hits the Road with the NY Phil Bandwagon

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...