Faculty

Professors

Franck Bedrossian, Composition
Benjamin Brinner, Ethnomusicology
music cognition, Javanese & Balinese gamelan, Middle Eastern music
Edmund Campion, Composition
Cindy Cox, Composition
James Davies, Musicology
cultural performance, singers and voice, keyboard practice, anthropologies of listening, colonial melodrama, history of science, nineteenth-century physiology and sciences of the mind
Jocelyne Guilbault, Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology, Caribbean, popular and traditional musics, creolization, power, cultural politics, nationalism, diaspora.
Marika Kuzma, Choral Director, Music Director University Chorus and Chamber Chorus, Choral Conducting, Vocal Literature, Slavic Choral Music research
Nicholas Mathew, Musicology
The Enlightenment, German Romanticism, Beethoven, Haydn, German instrumental music, Vienna, aesthetics, politics and ideology, materialism, pianos and performance.
Myra Melford, Improvisation and Jazz
Improvisation in contemporary music, post-1960’s jazz studies, the music of the AACM, blues, North Indian music, Butoh, and multi-media collaborations.
David Milnes, Orchestra Director
Music Director, University Symphony Orchestra; orchestral conducting technique.
Davitt Moroney, Musicology
Tamara Roberts, Performance Studies and Ethnomusicology
popular music, critical theory, performance theory, intercultural performance, scenography, music and spirituality
Mary Ann Smart, Musicology
Richard Taruskin, Musicology
Theory of Performance, Russian music, Twentieth-century music, nationalism, theory of modernism, analysis.
Ken Ueno, Composition
Extended Vocal Techniques, Improvisation, Interactive Live Performance, Orchestra, Non-Western Instruments, Tube Distortion, Microtonality, Invented Instruments
Kate van Orden, Musicology
Bonnie Wade, Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology; Asian music with emphasis on India (particularly North India) and East Asia (particularly Japan); focuses on genres, historical perspectives, improvisatory work, contemporary Japanese music, ethnography.
David Wessel, Music & Technology
Musical applications of computer and related technologies; music perception and cognition; composition and improvisation; interactive live performance.

Permanent Lecturers

Christy Dana
Karen Rosenak

Emeritus Faculty

Richard Crocker, Musicology
History of European musical style: medieval music, Gregorian and Frankish chant, polyphony (organum, discant, counterpoint), medieval theory of music, performance of chant and medieval polyphony, music in antiquity
Alan Curtis, Musicology
Elizabeth Davidson
Mary Duggan, Musicology & Information Studies
Music printing and publishing, music in Early Modern Europe, history of the book, music in the digital environment, liturgy, 19th-century American popular music.
Edwin Dugger, Composition
Richard Felciano, Composition
Composition, contemporary music, environmental music, acoustics, mixed media, multicultural creative issues, extended instrumental and vocal techniques, history of electroacoustic music, application of cognitive psychology to advanced orchestration.
Daniel Heartz, Musicology
History of music, French Renaissance culture, eighteenth-century music, Italian opera, Mozart, Haydn.
Joseph Kerman, Musicology
Larry Moe, Musicology, University Organist
Anthony Newcomb, Musicology
Italian poetry, madrigals, and instrumental music (1540-1640), nineteenth-century music, musical aesthetics and criticism, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner.
John Roberts, Musicology
Music bibliography, Handel, French nineteenth-century opera.
Michael Senturia, Orchestra
Olly Wilson, Composition
Composition, theory, twentieth-century music, electronic music, African and African-American music.

Lecturers & Visitors

Carla Brunet
Robert Calonico, Wind Ensemble
Lisa Gold, Balinese Gamelan
Candace Johnson
CK Ladzekpo, African Music Ensemble
Deirdre Loughridge, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Midiyanto, Indonesian Gamelan
Michael Orland, Piano Instructor
Jessica Bissett Perea, President's Postdoctoral Fellow
David Pereira, Theory
J. Griffith Rollefson, ACLS New Faculty Fellow
Doniel Mark Wilson, Gospel Chorus
Robert Yamasato, Composition

Teachers of Special Programs

see Private Instructors page

Visiting Bloch Professor

George Lewis - Spring 2013

University Carillonist

Jeff Davis