Jason Eckardt, associate professor, Conservatory of Music. Carl Fischer Music has published two recent compositions by Professor Eckardt: pulse-echo for piano and string quintet (2013, his second commissioned from the Koussevitzky Foundation) and Strömcarl for violin and piano (2012). On April 29, 2014, his new string quartet Ascension, a commission from SUNY Purchase and the Marx Family Foundation, was premiered at Purchase College in Purchase, N.Y. See also: http://www.ensemble21.com/eckardt/je.comp.html.

David Grubbs, associate professor, Conservatory of Music and the Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) Program. In April 2014, Duke University Press published Grubbs’ monograph Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording. Since then, the meticulously research book has been receiving very positive press reviews and is being published in two other languages, Italian and French. Some of the numerous recent features on and reviews of this path-breaking book that have appeared here and abroad may be found at:

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George Rothman, associate professor, conductor of the Conservatory Orchestra. In November 2014, Rothman’s Riverside Symphony released a CD of music by Marius Constant (1925–2004) on the orchestra’s own label, Riverside Symphony Records. The recording presents Constant’s Turner (19610, Brvissima (1992), and 103 Regards dans l’eau (1981). For more information on the recording see:  http://www.riversidesymphony.org/recordings/.