News

October 29, 2025
Danni Ingram (2nd year PhD student) received the Religion, Music, and Sound Student Paper Prize at this year’s Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) conference for her 2024 paper...
October 9, 2025
We are excited to invite submissions to the 2026 Yale Graduate Music Symposium! Abstracts due: Nov. 14, 11:59PM EST Keynote Address: Professor Kofi Agawu, CUNY For more...
September 15, 2025
Composer Jeanine Tesori and singer Dawn Upshaw join Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences as professors in the practice — bringing both boundary-pushing expertise and a...
September 3, 2025
Jeanine Tesori, Professor in the Practice of Music and of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, is the Lincoln Center’s 2025–26 Visionary Artist.  Each season the New York...
June 27, 2025
Philipp Lojak has received the Folkwangpreis, an award given by the Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer der Folkwang Universität der Künste e.V.in Germany to outstanding...
June 23, 2025
Sound and Scholarship: Ameera Nimjee and Suhail Yusuf collaborate to bridge performance and ethnomusicology. On Friday, April 18th, Ameera Nimjee and Suhail Yusuf, alongside...
June 9, 2025
The Department of Music is proud to announce that Jeanine Tesori has been jointly appointed as Professor in the Practice in Music and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies...