- Emily Abrams Ansari Historical Musicology
studied Music at Durham and Oxford Universities in England. Her dissertation assesses the participation of American composers in their government's Cold War cultural diplomacy campaign. She currently teaches Music History at the University of Western Ontario.
- Ryan Banagale Historical Musicology
holds a BA in music and drama from The Colorado College (2000) and a MA in music history from the University of Washington (2004). Under the guidance of Professor Larry Starr, Ryan wrote a master's thesis that examines Asian-American representation in the music of George Gershwin. At Harvard, he plans to continue this expand this work to examine the role of early twentieth-century popular music in the formation of perceptions of race in the United States. Ryan has presented papers at the National Conference of the Society for American Music, the Popular Music Conference at the Experience Music Project, and the Pacific Northwest Regional Meeting of the American Musicological Society. His article, “You Are My Sunshine: The Recorded Lineage of an American Folk Song,” appeared in the journal Musicological Explorations. Ryan is currently a member on the AMS Committee on Cultural Diversity and the co-founder and editor of amusicology.com.
- William Bares Ethnomusicology
has a B. from Amherst College and an MM from the University of Miami.
- Edgar Barroso Composition
comes from Mexico, where he received a BM from Guanajuato University and an MA in Digital Art from Pompeu Fabra University (Catalonya). His main interests are instrumental composition with/out live electronics, free improvisation, acousmatic music, sound diffusion, ethnomusicology and the possible links with any performig art.
- Sofia Becerra-Licha Ethnomusicology
double-majored in music & Spanish at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA, where she received her BA in 2004. Her principal interest is Latin American music.
- Aaron Berkowitz Ethnomusicology
has a BA in music and a BS in biological sciences from George Washington University, a certificate in piano performance from the Conservatoire Russe de Paris, and (most of) an MD from Johns Hopkins. His interests include the piano, composition, Hindustani music, improvisation, music cognition, and music pedagogy.
- Andrea Bohlman Historical Musicology
studied in Stanford, Berlin, and London. Her interests music and Cold War politics in the present, the radio, and Eastern Europe.
- Corinna Campbell Ethnomusicology
comes to Harvard from Bowling Green State University.
- Davide Ceriani Historical Musicology
earned a Diploma in Saxophone at the Conservatory of Bologna (1999), a Diploma in American Studies at Smith College (2002), and a Laurea in Lettere di secondo livello with major in Music History and History of Opera at the University of Florence (2003). Davide also studied at the University of Saint Denis-Paris VIII and worked for the Music Department of the France National Library in Paris. He is interested in the musical relationship between Italy and the United States in the early 20th centuty, and music in Italy between 1890 and 1940.
- Jean-Francois Charles Composition
is a composer, a clarinetist, and a live electronics designer. Ensemble Accroche Note commissioned his piece "Magma" and premiered it in Dresden in 2003. His work "Aqua" has been premiered in Florence in the French Institute and Consulate in 2004. Charles studied clarinet with Armand Angster at the Strasbourg Conservatory from 1999 to 2005. In 2003, he participated in the world premiere and recording of “Rechter Augenbrauentanz,” under the direction of the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. He reently gave a five day seminar and workshop on "Spectral sound processing in real-time with Max/MSP/Jitter" at Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
- Will Cheng (Historical Musicology)
received a BA in Music and English from Stanford University. His current interests include the music of Chopin and Liszt, 19th- and early 20th-century aesthetics and hermeneutics, performance practice, live reception, and gender studies.
- Christopher Chowrimootoo (Historical Musicology)
received his Undergraduate (BA in Music) and Master's (MSt. in Musicology) degrees from the University of Oxford. He has been involved in an extensive archival project documenting the modes and mechanics of eighteenth-century Italian opera in London. His principal research interests lie in the reception of twentieth-century opera; most recently, he has focused on the operas of Benjamin Britten.
- Matthew Clayton Ethnomusicology
has a B.A. from Yale University.
- Elizabeth Titrington Craft Historical Musicology
received a BA from the College of William and Mary in music and sociology and an MA from the University of Maryland in music history. Her research interests include American music, musical theatre, and music’s social and political significance.
- Louis Epstein Historical Musicology
Louis Epstein graduated in 2006 from Princeton with a BA in Music. His interests include film music and the intersections between music and politics in France and Germany in the early- to mid-20th Century.
- Ellen Exner Historical Musicology
holds Bachelor's degrees in both Music History and Russian Language and Literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and an M.A. in Music History from Smith College. Research interests include court music in Dresden and Berlin during the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century, the career activities of students of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the life and works of Hector Berlioz. Her dissertation, currently entitled "Frederick the Great and the Origins of Modern Musical Life in Berlin, 1736 to 1756", is in progress. In her spare time, Exner studies the baroque oboe with Kathleen Staten and freelances in the Boston area. Recently, her edition of chorale preludes by Bach-student Gottfried August Homilius was published by Carus-Verlag (Stuttgart) as part of the Homilius: Ausgewählte Werke series under the general editorship of Uwe Wolf, in conjunction with the Bach-Archiv, Leipzig.
- Andrew Friedman Theory
has a BA from Princeton University. HIs interests include temporality, phenomenology, and aesthetics.
- Ashley Fure Composition
comes to Harvard from Oberlin Conservatory where she studied composition.
- Petra Gelbart Ethnomusicology
has a BA from U.C. Berkeley. Her dissertation is on the content and practice of music education in Czech schools, with a view to interethnic concerns. She is interested in critical theories of pedagogy and race, as well as studying discursive constructions of ethnicity, whiteness and difference.
- Marc Gidal Ethnomusicology
studies Brazilian music, jazz, and Indian music and plays double bass. His dissertation research concerns the religious music of Afro-Umbandistas in southern Brazil. He received a B.S. in Religious Studies from the University of Oregon and a M.A. in Music from Tufts University.
- Peter Gilbert Composition
has degrees from Illinois Wesleyan University and the Cleveland Institute of Music.
- Gabrielle Giron Ethnomusicology
received a BA in music from University of Missouri-Kansas City, and a MM in ethnomusicology from Florida State University. Her main research focus is Mongolian music with a particular interest in the interrelationship between music and poetry in Mongolian long song. She enjoys singing and listening to diverse genres ranging from Italian opera to American folk music.
- Glenda Goodman Historical Musicology
comes from the Juilliard School, where she completed a MM Before that, she graduated from Oberlin College and Conservatory with a BA as a religion major and a BM in viola performance. She is interested in the phenomenology of performance, experimental music, and American arts institutions.
- Michael Heller Ethnomusicology
Michael has received a MA from Rutgers University-Newark in Jazz Historyand Research and a BA from Columbia University with concentrations in Music, Philosophy and African American studies. His principal research interest is jazz, with a particular focus on the jazz avant garde since 1960.
- Jose Luis Hurtado Composition
is from Mexico and has a BA from the Conservatory de la Rosas and an MA from University of Veracruz.
- Sheryl Kaskowitz Ethnomusicology
studied music history at Oberlin College and women's studies at San Francisco State University.
- David Kim Performance Practice
received a BA in music from Cornell, an MM in piano performance from the Yale School of Music and completed further studies as a Fulbright Scholar in Germany. Primarily a performer on historical as well as modern keyboards, his musicological interests include performance practice, notation, pedagogy
and old recordings.
- Ulrich Kreppein studied at the Robert-Schumann-Musikhochschule in Duesseldorf, Germany and at Columbia University in New York. His main interests are opera and music theatre, and the combination of literature and music.
- Hannah Lash Composition
studied composition at Eastman School of Music.
- Katherine In-Young Lee Ethnomusicology
received dual BM degrees in piano performance and music history/musicology from the University of Michigan. She has a MA in ethnomusicology from the University of Washington. Her primary area of research is Korean music.
- Frank Lehman Theory
has a BA in Music Theory and Composition and Philosophy from Brown University. His interests range from analysis of 19th- and 20th-century music to film musicology, music cognition, and lagomorph-zoomusicology.
- Thomas Lin Historical Musicology
received a combined BA/MA in Musicology from Queens College, NY, and is transferring from the CUNY Graduate Center. Also holds a previous BE in Chemical Engineering from Cooper Union, NY. His interests include the Renaissance madrigal, the development of tonality in Italy, Enlightenment aesthetics, 19th-Century opera, and Gilbert & Sullivan. He also enjoys cooking, and massages that don't tickle.
- Evan MacCarthy Historical Musicology
received his BA in classics and music from the College of the Holy Cross. His dissertation is a study of music and musicians in Ferrara under Leonello and Borso d'Este (1441-1471). His research interests also include the theoretical writings of Johannes Tinctoris, codicology/paleography, ceremonial motets, Old Roman and Ambrosian chant, Notre Dame polyphony, 15th-c. Italian humanism, the songs of Du Fay, the masses of Palestrina and his contemporaries, and 17th-c. north German organ music.
- Drew Massey Historical Musicology
completed his undergraduate work in piano and mathematics at Indiana University. He is a recipient of the Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities and the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. Drew is currently writing a dissertation about the American pianist John Kirkpatrick's career as an editor. His other research interests include nineteenth-century American sheet music, Ambrosian Chant, problems of textuality in music, and uses of technology in education and research. Together with fellow grad student Ryan Bañagale, he runs the blog amusicology.com.
- John McKay Theory
studied at MIT, where he pursued music and chemical engineering; also studied theory at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Danny Mekonnen Ethnomusicology
received a BM in Jazz Studies from the University of Texas-Arlington. His interests include Ethiopian music, free improvisation, jazz and hip hop.
- Alexandra Monchick Historical Musicology
received a BMusA in flute performance from the University of Michigan in 2003. She is currently conducting research in Berlin for her dissertation entitled “The Influence of Silent Film on Zeitoper during the Weimar Republic,” under the auspices of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies.
- Rowland Moseley Theory
came from Leeds in England and before entering Harvard's theory program studied music(ology) for four years at King's College, Cambridge (BA, MPhil). His scholarly activities fall primarily within the analysis of tonal music from the 18th and 19th centuries, and the history of compositional and theoretical pedagogy. Areas of special, developing interest include fugue as tonal form from Bach to Verdi; hypermetre and harmonic rhythm in Mozart and Brahms;
the advanced harmonic idioms of French organ music; and the interdependence of pitch and timbre in orchestral music by Mahler, Strauss and Webern.
- Matthew Mugmon Historical Musicology
graduated in 2003 from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Classical Studies. His interests include Mahler and other late-romantic composers.
- Mariam Nazarian Performance Practice
is a concert pianist. Received her undergraduate degree from the Mannes College of Music (New York). Scholarly interests include J.S. Bach, keyboard literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, Armenian folk music, and vocal jazz improvisation.
- Karola Obermueller Composition
has a BA from Nurnberg-Augsburg College of Music and an MA from Salzburg University Mozarteum.
- Torbjorn Skinnemoen Ottersen Historical Musicology
from Oslo, Norway, has a BA and an M.St. in Music from the University of Oxford.
- Gina Rivera Historical Musicology
holds graduate and undegraduate degrees in violin performance from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her dissertation is a study of attitudes toward musical performance in a diverse body of French Enlightenment texts, from the autobiography of Rousseau to the novels of Diderot to collections of satirical song and pornography.
- Andrew Robbie Theory
has a B.Mus. in composition and a BA in linguistics from the University of Sydney, Australia. His research centres on new music, both classical and popular, and on multimodal theory and analysis, primarily as applied to music video.
- Adam Roberts Composition
comes from the Eastman School of Music, where he earned a BM.
- Matthias Roeder Historical Musicology
comes to Harvard from Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg where he studied classical guitar. He is writing a dissertation on "Music, Politics, and the Public Sphere: Berlin from the late 18th to the early 19th centuries," and his research interests include 15th-century chansons, Ambrosian Chant, music in World War II, German music after 1945, opera, and computer-aided identification of music scribes. http://www.zeitschichten.com
- Dominique Schafer Composition
has a BA and an MA from UCLA.
- Meredith Schweig Ethnomusicology
has a BA in Music and East Asian Studies from Harvard University. She is interested in the popular musics of Taiwan and China, particularly with respect to the subjects of identity formation, the cultural dynamics of the cross-strait relationship, and the contemporary music of Taiwan's indigenous peoples. Other academic preoccupations include translation studies, museology, and design studies.
- Sasha Siem Composition
has a BA in music and an MPhil in composition from Cambridge University (U.K.)
- David Sullivan Theory
received a BA in music at Dartmouth College and an MM in Music Theory Pedagogy, an MM in Composition and an MM in Computer Music Research from The Peabody Conservatory.
- Selina Tang Ethnomusicology
comes to Harvard from Central Academy of Music where she earned a MA in Musicology. Her principal interest is Chinese music.
- David Trippett Historical Musicology
holds two degrees in musicology from King's College, Cambridge, UK, where he also gained a certificate in German language. Under the auspices of the DAAD, he studied piano in Leipzig at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" and additionally gained a Fellowship of the Royal Schools of Music (FRSM) in piano performance. His dissertation focuses on Wagner's Lohengrin, and includes chapters on musical appropriations from nineteenth-century Germanic philology, problems of melodic theory and originality, and the structural challenges involved in writing a reception theory. Additional research interests include the intersection of improvisation and composition in virtuosic piano repertoires, and relations between modernism and media in 1920s, articles on both of which have appeared in Journal of Musicology 24/4 (2007), and 19th-Century Music (2008).
- Bert Van Herck Composition
holds graduate degrees in piano, chamber music, music history and composition from the Lemmensinstitute in Belgium.
- Gabriele Vanoni Composition
comes from the Milan Conservatory, where he studied Piano and Composition. He's interested in writing Instrumental and Electronic Music.
- Tolga Yayalar Composition
has a BA from Berklee College of Music and an MA from Istanbul Technical University in Turkey.
- Lily (Yu-Feng) Yeh Historical Musicology
is from Taiwan. She earned a BS in psyschology and a BA in music, as well as a MA in music history from the University of Washington. She is interested in the interdisciplinary aspect of historical musicology as well as ethnomusicology and music theory, and in American music as well as the music of Mozart, Brahms, and Beethoven. She would like to bring in the disciplines of general history, statistics, cognitive psychology, and linguistics to her studies.
- Anna Zayaruznaya Historical Musicology
received a BA in music from Wesleyan University. She is interested in notation and text-music relations, especially in the polytextual works of the French Ars Nova. As a performer, Anna is interested in baroque vocal repertoires and 19th-century Russian song.
- Hillary Zipper Composition
comes to Harvard from NEC where she studied violin, and from Brandeis, where she studied composition
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