News:

Samara Joy ’21 Wins 6th Grammy Award

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:00:00 -0500

The Los Angeles Master Chorale, led by President/CEO Scott Altman '90, was also a winner.

Cameron Carrella ’19 is Honored for Excellence in Music Education and Performance

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 05:00:00 -0500

A talented Jazz Studies graduate and dedicated music teacher, Carrella was named winner of the North Shore Symphony Orchestra's Long Island Music Educator's Performance Prize.

Lecturer Gregory Spears Premieres “Love Story”

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 05:00:00 -0500

His new work commissioned by the New York Philharmonic reviewed in the New York Times.

Jonathan Harris ’20 President’s Award Winner for Public Art

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 04:00:00 -0400

The President's Award winner traces the arc of the the sun as it passes over the campus through a sonic experience.

Laura Jobin-Acosta ’20 MM Earns Inaugural OPERA America Residency

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Congratulations to Laura Jobin-Acosta '20 MM, a composer recently named a recipient of the first-ever IDEA Opera Residencies program by OPERA America.

Jon Samson ’03 Wins a Grammy

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 05:00:00 -0500

For Best Children's Album

Professor Kamala Sankaram’s Techno-Infused Opera

Mon, 02 Sep 2019 04:00:00 -0400

Composition Professor Kamala Sankaram looks to expand opera audiences through the use of techno music and familiar language.

Two Alumni Star in Operas by Purchase Faculty Member

Fri, 10 May 2019 04:00:00 -0400

Lydia Adelle Brown '19 and Jorell Williams '06 star in two different NYC productions of Laura Kaminsky operas.

Laura Kaminsky Featured in Opera News

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 04:00:00 -0400

"I care about the fate of the world we inhabit. So what I can do is write music that deals with things that I care about, that I think need to be attended to."

Laura Kaminsky Wins Visionary Composer Award

Mon, 21 Jan 2019 05:00:00 -0500

Composition Professor Laura Kaminsky is a winner of the 2019 Composers Now Festival Visionary Award.

Composition Student Premiering New Opera

Fri, 09 Nov 2018 05:00:00 -0500

Zachary James Ritter (MM '20) will premiere his new one-act chamber opera "On Our Street" as part of the Compōs-it Opera Festival.

Prof. Kamala Sankaram opened American Opera Initiative Festival

Mon, 10 Sep 2018 04:00:00 -0400

Composition Professor Kamala Sankaram opened Washington National Opera's American Opera Initiative with the world premiere of Taking Up Serpents.

Composition Alum Selected for BMI Workshop

Fri, 07 Sep 2018 04:00:00 -0400

Sequoia Sellinger ('17) has been selected for the prestigious BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.

Composition Students Chosen for Prestigious Festival

Mon, 13 Aug 2018 04:00:00 -0400

Gregg Welcher ('19) and Kristin Kirk ('19 MM) participated in the Seal Bay Festival this summer

Laura Kaminsky’s “As One” is the most performed new opera in North America

Fri, 27 Jul 2018 04:00:00 -0400

"The size of As One is not its only progressive component. From the beginning, this opera was destined to stand out and challenge the status quo of both opera and society." —Cincinnati Enquirer

Composition Professor wins Two Opera America Awards

Fri, 13 Jul 2018 04:00:00 -0400

Kamala Sankaram wins two Opera Grants for Female Composers.

New Opera by Purchase Instructor & US Poet Laureate

Fri, 13 Jul 2018 04:00:00 -0400

Cincinnati Opera has announced a commission of Castor and Patience by composer Gregory Spears and librettist Tracy K. Smith, US Poet Laureate

Purchase Alum wins First Hildegard Composition Competition

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 04:00:00 -0400

Alumna, Kayla Cashetta '14 (classical composition), won the National Sawdust's first Hildegard Competition for female and non-binary composers.

Composition Faculty Sends Opera to the Schools

Mon, 05 Feb 2018 05:00:00 -0500

Houston Grand Opera takes Kamala Sankaram's new opera on an outreach tour of 80-100 performances.

Composition Teacher Premieres New Opera

Mon, 15 Jan 2018 05:00:00 -0500

Gregory Spears' opera Fellow Travelers had its New York premiere at the Prototype Festival, and received great reviews.

Laura Kaminsky Awarded Prestigious Opera America Grant

Wed, 09 Aug 2017 04:00:00 -0400

Purchase Faculty Among “Top 35 Female Classical Composers”

Wed, 09 Aug 2017 04:00:00 -0400

Current head of classical composition, Laura Kaminsky named among the Washington Post's "top 35 female composers in classical music."

Students reimagine Tchaikovsky

Tue, 01 Aug 2017 04:00:00 -0400

Purchase students and alumni from the Conservatories of Dance and Music release Odette's Crown.

American Opera Projects Celebrates Pride With Free Stream Of ‘As One’

Thu, 22 Jun 2017 04:00:00 -0400

Purchase composition professor Laura Kaminsky's ground-breaking opera As One depicts the experiences of its sole transgender protagonist, Hannah, as she endeavors to resolve the discord between her self and the outside world.

Theater in the Now Features Music Alumnus Edward W. Hardy

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 05:00:00 -0500

Edward W. Hardy: Bachelor of Music – Purchase College, Cum Laude, 2010–14