Archive: Music

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CAS Magazine: Faculty

This Music Theory Professor Believes in the Transformative Power of Teaching

An assistant professor of music in the Department of Performing Arts, Richard Desinord is inspired by watching his students learn something.…

November 20, 2025

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Music Professor Benjamin Harbert Wins 3 Awards for Book on Incarcerated Musicians

Instrument of the State: A Century of Music in Louisiana’s Angola Prison received the Irving Lowens Book Award, the Music in American Culture Award and the Portia K. Maultsby…

July 14, 2025

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Internationally Renowned Violinist Performs Concert on the Hilltop

David Kim is concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra, a former child prodigy and one of the world’s greatest living…

December 5, 2022

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Award-Winning Composer Honors 272 Enslaved People Through Hip Hop and Liturgical Work

Carlos Simon is an award-winning composer and musician. He’s the composer-in-residence at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and has written concert music and…

February 28, 2022

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For a Song: Senior Writes Music to Soothe the Soul in Pandemic

Kent Hall (C’20), a singer-songwriter who started playing guitar at age 6, says he coped with the restlessness he felt after coming home this spring to his grandparents’ home…

May 14, 2020

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Multimedia Artist DJ Spooky Collaborates with Georgetown Chamber Singers on New Performance Piece

Last week, Paul D. Miller, known more broadly as DJ Spooky, performed alongside the Georgetown Chamber Singers, a show that concluded his residency at the. …

February 14, 2020

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Multitalented Senior Who Studies the Holocaust Hopes to Pursue International Law

Paul Rochford (C’20) has traveled to Eastern Europe to help identify previously unknown mass graves during the Holocaust under a Georgetown professor’s guidance, Rev. Patrick…

September 5, 2019

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Music Policy Forum Summit Promotes Dialogue Across Industry

Last weekend, Georgetown hosted the annual Music Policy Forum Summit, which brings together musicians, policymakers and industry stakeholders in a two-day event filled with…

October 31, 2018

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Music Program Hosts Multimedia Conference

DC Talks Music/FilmDocs/Media: Cross-Sector Dialogue in Today’s Digital Culture, held in Lohrfink Auditorium in the Rafik B. Hariri Building, will feature an all-star…

October 20, 2017

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WATCH: A Connection Through Music

Performing at a Baroque festival in Bolivia, the Georgetown University Chamber Singers found a spiritual connection strikingly similar to that found by Jesuit missionary…

July 19, 2016