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Faculty

Richard BEAUDOIN
Andrew CLARK
Suzannah CLARK...
Federico CORTESE...

Chaya CZERNOWIN...
Christopher HASTY
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Jill JOHNSON
Thomas Forrest KELLY..
Robert D. LEVIN...
Ingrid MONSON...
Carol J. OJA...
Olaf POST...

Alexander REHDING...
Sindhumathi REVULURI...
Kay Kaufman SHELEMAY
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Anne C. SHREFFLER...

Daniel STEPNER..

Hans TUTSCHKU...

Richard K. WOLF.



Richard Beaudoin
Preceptor on Music
beaudoin@fas.harvard.edu
G-2
617-494-7737

Beaudoin's recent music involves micro-measurements of recorded performances. His works have been commissioned, performed and recorded in Europe and America. His research fields include cadence, resemblance, performance science and the aesthetics of musical borrowing.


website: www.richardbeaudoin.com

   

Andrew Clark
Senior Lecturer on Music, Director of Choral Music at Harvard
agclark@fas.harvard.edu
Paine Hall 8
617-495-8827

Clark serves as Director of Choral Activities and Senior Lecturer on Music. He is the Music Director of the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and teaches courses in conducting and music theory. He leads the Holden Choruses in performances throughout Europe and the United States, in studio recordings, and collaborations with distinguished conductors, composers, and ensembles. His choirs have been hailed as “first rate” (Boston Globe), “cohesive and exciting” (Opera News), and “beautifully blended” (Providence Journal), achieving performances of “passion, conviction, adrenalin, [and] coherence” (Worcester Telegram). Prior to his appointment at Harvard, Clark was Artistic Director of the Providence Singers and Director of Choral Activities at Tufts University for seven years. Clark has performed prominent venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center and Boston’s Symphony Hall. He has collaborated with the Pittsburgh and New Haven Symphonies, the Rhode Island and Boston Philharmonic Orchestras, the Boston Pops, Stephen Sondheim, Sweet Honey in the Rock, the Trinity Wall Street Choir, the Kronos Quartet, and the Dave Brubeck Quartet.

Clark faculty page

 

 

 

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Suzannah Clark
Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of Music
Theory
sclark@fas.harvard.edu
Music Building 307N
617-495-4009

Clark works on the history of music theory, and has focussed in particular on Rameau, Fétis, Oettingen, Schenker, as well as on neo-Riemannian approaches.

Clark faculty page

 

 

 

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Federico Cortese
Senior Lecturer on Music, Conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
fcortese@fas.harvard.edu
G-5, Music Building
617-495-1533

Federico Cortese has served as Music Director of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras since 1999 and in the same capacity for the New England String Ensemble since 2005. He has conducted operatic and symphonic engagements throughout the United States, Australia, Asia and Europe.  

Cortese faculty page


 

 

 

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Chaya Czernowin
Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music; Graduate Advisor in Composition
Composition (on leave fall 2012)
chayaczernowin@gmail.com
Music Building 308N
617-495-3647
Czernowin’s chamber and orchestral music has been played at more than forty festivals all over the world and include commissions by major ensembles, orchestras, and festivals. Characteristic of her work are attempts to find alternative temporalities, changing perspectives and scale, fragmentation, examination, and stretching of identity; all coupled with a strong physical imprint and high emotional intensity.

Czernowin faculty page

 

 

 

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Christopher Hasty
Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music

Theory
hasty@fas.harvard.edu
Paine Hall 3
617-495-2692

Professor Hasty’s scholarly work engages problems in the theory and analysis of music from the 16th to the 20th centuries from the standpoint of process and experience. His book, Meter as Rhythm (1997) won the Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory  His current research interests include process philosophy, poetic prosody, and ecological and post-cognitivist psychology. 

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Hasty faculty page

 

 

 

Jill Johnson
Dance Director, Office for the Arts at Harvard, Dance Program
Senior Lecturer, Department of Music
johnson@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Dance Center
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
617-495-8683

Formerly on the faculties of Princeton, Barnard College at Columbia University, The New School University and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts; and has taught regularly at The Juilliard School, Alvin Ailey, The Joffrey Ballet School New York, and Yale University, Jill Johnson is an honors graduate of Canada’s National Ballet School. She was a soloist dancer with the National Ballet of Canada and a principal dancer in choreographer William Forsythe’s company, Frankfurt Ballet, for ten years. For the past twelve years she has staged Forsythe’s work worldwide, including productions at Paris Opera Ballet, Norwegian National Ballet, Batsheva Dance Company in Israel, La Scala, the National Ballet of Canada, American Ballet Theater and Boston Ballet. Currently she is working with Mikhail Baryshnikov on a solo that William Forsythe is creating for Baryshnikov. [Photo by Alicia Anstead/Harvard Office for the Arts]




Johnson faculty page

   
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Thomas Forrest Kelly
Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music; Head Tutor
Historical Musicology (on leave spring 2013)
tkelly@fas.harvard.edu
Music Building 203S
617-495-2791

Professor Kelly's main fields of interest are chant and performance practice.

Kelly faculty page

 

 

 

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Robert Levin
Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of Music
Performance & Analysis (on leave fall 2012)
rlevin@fas.harvard.edu
Music Building G-7
617-496-6527

A concert pianist with worldwide touring appearances, Robert Levin is also a noted theorist and Mozart scholar, and is the author of a number of articles and essays on Mozart.

Levin faculty page

 

 

 

Ingrid Monson
Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, supported by the Time Warner Endowment (on leave 2012-2013)
Ethnomusicology, Musicology
imonson@fas.harvard.edu
Music Building 202S
617-494-7740

Professor Monson won the Sonneck Society's 1998 Irving Lowens Prize for the best book in American music for her 1996 Saying Something, Jazz Improvisation and Interaction. She has recently written on the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on the history of jazz, and is working on a book on the musics of the African Diaspora. Monson was a founding member of the Klezmer Conservatory Band.

Monson faculty page

 

 

 

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Carol Oja
William Powell Mason Professor of Music (on leave 2012-2013)
Historical Musicology
coja@fas.harvard.edu
Music Building 304S
617-495-3971

Oja's research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century American musical traditions. She has written extensively on modernist composers (Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, Ruth Crawford, William Grant Still, and Edgard Varèse) and cross-cultural composition (Colin McPhee). Her current research is on musical theater of the 1940s, including the work of Leonard Bernstein.

Oja faculty page

 

 

 

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Olaf Post
Preceptor on Music
post [at] fas.harvard.edu
G-6
617-495-1531

Post's research focuses on music cognition and performance analysis.

Post faculty page

 

 

 

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Alexander Rehding
Fanny Peabody Professor of Music; Chair
Theory
arehding[at]fas.harvard.edu
Music Building 305N (Professorial: 496-6646)
Music Building 104 S (Chair's office: 617-495-9854 )
Department Reception: 617-495-2791

Research interests are located at the intersection between theory and history, and cover a wide spectrum from Ancient Greek music to the Eurovision Song Contest. Rehding is interested in the history of music theory, paleo- and neo-Riemannian theory, music-aesthetic questions, and issues of sound and media.

Rehding faculty page


 

 

 

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Sindhumathi Revuluri
Assistant Professor of Music (on leave 2012-2013)
Historical Musicology
revuluri@fas.harvard.edu
Music Building 302S
617-496-9317

Revuluri's research interests include 19th and 20th century France (especially modernism and exoticism), global pop music, film and media studies, and critical and postcolonial theory.

Revuluri faculty page


 

 

 

Kay Kaufman Shelemay
G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music
Professor of African and African American Studies
Ethnomusicology
shelemay@fas.harvard.edu
Paine Hall 7
617-495-4008

In addition to longtime interests in musical ethnography and music and memory, Shelemay's current research is on Ethiopian music and musicians in their North American diaspora.

Shelemay faculty page

 

 

 

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Anne C. Shreffler
James Edward Ditson Professor of Music
Historical Musicology
acshreff@fas.harvard.edu
Music Building 301S
617-494-7742

Anne C. Shreffler’s research interests include the musical avant-garde after 1945 in Europe and America, with special emphasis on the political and ideological associations of new music.Other research interests include historiography, composers in emigration, performance theory, and contemporary opera.

Shreffler faculty page


 

 

 

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Daniel Stepner
Preceptor in Music
Performance: Chamber Music
stepner@brandeis.edu
Music Building G-7
617-495-2791

Stepner is first violinist for the Lydian String Quartet (in residence at Brandeis University), Artistic Director of the Aston Magna Festival, and a founding member of the Boston Museum Trio (resident at the Museum of Fine Arts). 

Stepner faculty page


 

 

 

Hans Tutschku
Fanny P. Mason Professor of Music, Director of the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition (HUSEAC)
Composition
tutschku@fas.harvard.edu
Music Building G-3
617-495-2314

http://www.tutschku.com

Tutschku has composed music for film, theatre, and ballet as well as instrumental and electroacoustic music. He has also conceived several sound installations and published articles on sound diffusion. A main focus of Tutschku's work is improvisation with live-electronics, and he tours regularly with his Ensemble für Intuitive Musik Weimar.

Tutschku faculty page

 

 

 

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Richard Wolf
Professor of Music (on leave 2012-2013)
Ethnomusicology
rwolf@fas.harvard.edu
031 Memorial Hall (office location only)
Postal address: Music Building / Harvard University / Cambridge, MA 02138
617-494-7678

Wolf's thematic interests include emotional complexity in ceremonial contexts, the constitutive properties of musical action in rituals, the poetics of non-verbal activities, the musical qualities of languages and the analytic potentials of particular languages for the study of music. He writes on issues of music and Islam in south Asia, and on south Indian folk and tribal music.

Wolf faculty page

   



Visiting Faculty/Instructors
2012-13

 

 

 

Scott Edwards, College Fellow

bio to come

 

Daniel Henderson, Lecturer on Music

Daniel Henderson is a jazz trumpeter, composer, and band leader whose research interests include big band composition and arranging, jazz improvisation, and Capitol Records' line of children's albums from the 1940s and 50s. He holds D.M.A. and M.M. degrees from New England Conservatory in Jazz Composition with Academic Honors, where he was awarded the Gunther Schuller Medal for "having made extraordinary contributions to the life of NEC." He has written on the music of Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, and is writing a book on the music of Billy May. As trumpeter with The New Hot 5, Henderson will perform and teach early jazz trumpet styles at Jazz en Vercors in France in 2011.

 

Wayne Marshall, Lecturer on Music

Marshall specializes in the intersections betwen Caribbean and American popular music. He received his AB from Harvard and his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007. His dissertation, "Routes, Rap, Reggae: Hearing the Histories of Hip-hop and Reggae Together," examines the musical interplay between Jamaica and the US in the late twentieth century. He has taught at Brandeis University (Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Ethnomusicology for 2007-2009 and Lecturer in Afrian and Afro-American Studies), is interested in techno-musicology, and maintains the blog, "Wayne&Wax."

Wayne Marshall website.

 

Roger Reynolds, Visiting Composer

Reynold's output ranges from instrumental compositions to elaborate dramatic works for singers, actors, instruments and multichannel computer processed sound. He works at the interface between high technology and art in such projects as ILLUSION, commissioned for Esa Pekka Salonen by the Los Angeles Philharmonic in cooperation with the Rockefeller and Koussevitzky Foundations; 22, a collaboration with dancer Bill T. Jones, and the Arts Media and Engineering program at ASU, SANCTUARY (supported by the National Gallery of Art and red fish blue fish); Submerged Memories for Paul Dresher's Electroacoustic Band with tenor John Dykers (commissioned by the Fromm Foundation); and SEASONS (supported by the NEA, National Gallery of Arts, and New Music Concerts/Toronto).

Roger Reynolds website.

 


Kate van Orden, Visiting Professor of Music (University of Californai, Berkeley) (fall term)

Van Orden is a specialist in cultural history and has published many articles and boos chapters on French vernacular culture and the Renaissance chanson. After receiving a Ph.D. in Music History and Theory at the University of Chicago (1996), van Orden held fellowships at the Warburg Insitute in London and the Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities. She has taught at Berkeley since 1997. National awards include the Noah Greenberg Award, the Lewis Lockwood Award and the Paul Pisk Prize, all from AMS, as well as the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society. She has been interviewed on BBC, NPR, and given many pre-concert talks and colloquia. Van Orden also specializes in historical performance on the bassoon. She has over 40 CDs to her credit and has performed in concerts across America and Europe.

 

Wolman, Shustermann Fellow

bio to come.

 
Emeriti
In Memorium
Leon Kirchner
Reinhold Brinkmann
James Yannatos
John Milton Ward
 

 

 

Mario Davidovsky
Professor Emeritus
Composition


Directed the Columbia/Princeton Electronic Music Center for many years while he was MacDowell Professor of Music at Columbia University. He also served as Director of the Composers' Conference at Wellesley for 29 years. Professor Davidovsky received the Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship. In 2000-2001, two CDs of his works were recently released by Bridge Records: Flashback and Canticum Cantorum; and his Cantione Sine Textu, for soprano and chamber ensemble, was published by C.F. Peters. Davidovsky served as vice-president of the Koussevitzky Foundation at the Library of Congress; vice-president of the Robert Miller Fund for Music, and consulted for the Guggenheim Foundation both in the U.S. and Latin America. He is Director of the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition.
 

 

 

David G. Hughes
Professor Emeritus
Historical Musicology


Prof. Hughes was educated at Harvard (A.B., M.A. and Ph.D.), with a dissertation on line and counterpoint in Gothic music. He studied theory and composition with Irving Fine, Randall Thompson and Walter Piston, and musicology with A. Tillman Merritt, Stephen Tuttle and Otto Gombosi. Hughes taught at Harvard as Fanny P. Mason Professor of Music from 1964 until his retirement in 1994. He worked primarily in the areas of Gregorian and post-Gregorian chant, liturgical music and medieval polyphony, notation and modal theory. He co-compiled the Index of Gregorian Chant, and was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society (1959-63). Hughes published many articles and was honored with a Festschrift on his 70th birthday, Essays on Medieval Music in Honor of David Hughes (1995).
 

 

 

Lewis Lockwood
Fanny Peabody Research Professor of Music
Historical Musicology
llockw@fas.harvard.edu
710 Widener Library
617-495-7574

Lewis Lockwood's recent book, Beethoven: The Music and the Life (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003) was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Lockwood took the B.A. at Queens College, New York, studying with Edward Lowinsky, and did his graduate work at Princeton with OIiver Strunk and Arthur Mendel. He taught at Princeton from 1958 to 1980, when he came to Harvard, where he was named Fanny Peabody Professor of Music in 1985. He was President of the American Musicological Society in 1987-88 and was named an Honorary Member of the AMS in 1993. His scholarly work has focused on music in the Italian Renaissance and on Beethoven and his era. In 1997 he was presented with a volume entitled Music in Renaissance Cities and Courts: Studies in Honor of Lewis Lockwood, edited by Jessie Ann Owens and Anthony Cummings (Detroit, 1997). He won the Einstein and Kinkeldey awards of the AMS, and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for his book, Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992). In 2005 the American Musicological Society established an annual award in his name for the best book by a younger scholar.
 

 

 

Jameson Marvin
Choral Director

Website: www.jamesonmarvin.com

Dr. Marvin received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Music from the University of Illinois, a Master of Arts in Choral Conducting from Stanford University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music Composition from the UCSB. He was Director of Choral Ensembles at Vassar College before coming here in 1978. Dr. Marvin conducts the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and offers courses in Choral Conducting and Choral Analysis/Interpretation. He has conducted 80 choral-orchestral works and is a conductor, teacher, author, scholar, editor and arranger. Dr. Marvin has written on subjects ranging from choral intonation to Renaissance music for men's voices including The Conductor's Process, Five Centuries of Choral Music: Essays in Honor of Howard Swan, Pengragon Press, Mastery of Choral Ensemble, E. C. Schirmer, Choral Excellence: Elements of Successful Leadership, and Perfection and Naturalness: A Practical Guide to Renaissance Choral Performance, Oxford University Press. Dr. Marvin has sustained and expanded a choral environment rich enought to attract thousands of students to his program, from the beginning singer to the advanced musician. The choral program at Harvard was named the top collegiate choral program in the country by Classical Singer magazine.

 

 

 

Rulan Pian
Professor Emerita
East Asian Studies, Ethnomusicology


Prof. Pian was educated at Radcliffe and studied Western music history and theory with Tillman Merritt (B.A. and M.A.). She received her Ph.D. from Harvard with a dissertation on the Song dynasty. She join the Harvard music department, teaching Chinese music, in 1961, and was made a professor of east Asian languages and civilizations and professor of music in 1974. Pian was appointed fellow of the Academica Sinaica in Taiwan in 1994. She has published widely on Song dynasty, musical sources, Peking opera, Peking drum songs and other historical and contemporary genres. Since the late 1970s, she has travelled to China regularly, bringing the latest Western ideas there, and returning to America with a wealth of fieldwork data and audio-visual recordings, materials that preserve and illustrate Chinese music to American audiences.

 

 

 

John Stewart
Musicianship

Stewart holds a Ed.D. from Harvard and a B.M. from the New England Conservatory of Music. He founded and directed the Young Musician's Program of the Ernest Bloch Music Festival in Newport, Oregon, where he also premiered his work, Threnody (Chorale Partita), Luise Vosgerchian In Memoriam. His Ives Fantasy Suite received its Boston premiere at The New England Conservatory.

 

 

 



Bernard Rands
Research Professor
Composition
amc65aum@aol.com

Rands taught at several universities in the U.K., and at U.C. San Diego and Boston University in the U.S. before coming to Harvard in 1989. He's won a Pulitzer, and has had works commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for their 150th Anniversary and Carnegie Hall for their 100th Anniversary.

Bernard Rands website
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Christoph Wolff
Adams University Professor (on leave 2011-2012)
and Curator of the Isham Memorial Library
Historical Musicology
cwolff@fas.harvard.edu
Paine Hall 1
617-495-2791

Wolff's primary research interests extend to the music from the 17th to the early 19th century, especially to Bach and Mozart studies.

Wolff faculty page




 

 

 

 

 

 

Staff  

Nancy Shafman, Director of Administration
Lesley Bannatyne, Managing Communications Coordinator
Kaye Denny, Front Office Co-Manager
Mary Gerbi, Undergraduate & Events Coordinator
Eva Kim, Assistant to the Chair
Jean Moncrieff, Director of Events
Karen Rynne, Manager of Administration and Finance
Charles Stillman, Front Office Co-Manager
Seth Torres, HUSEAC Technical Director
Fernando Viesca, Building Manager

Affiliated Staff
Piano Technical Services

Lesley Bannatyne, Managing Communications Coordinator
bannatyn@fas.harvard.edu
Music Building, 102S
617-495-2791
Lesley oversees website maintenance, publicity, department directories, scholarly publications, the newsletter,
and other special projects. She also meets with and dispenses information to prospective students.

Kaye Denny, Front Office Co-Manager
denny2@fas.harvard.edu
Music Building, Reception
617-495-2791
Kaye is reponsible for room reservations, mail operations, practice rooms and all reception duties.

Mary Gerbi, Undergraduate Coordinator
gerbi@fas.harvard.edu
Music Building, 104S
617-495-9854
Mary is primary point of contact for the undergraduates in the department, including Harvard/NEC students. She also manages the Chair's office, assisting with faculty searches, correspondence, and reports.

Eva Kim, Assistant to the Chair
evakim@fas.harvard.edu
Music Building, 101S
617-495-2791
Eva assists faculty, the Director, and Financial Manager, organizes the University Hall Recitals, schedules meetings for the Chair, coordinates committees and maintains department data.

Jean Moncrieff, Director of Events
moncrief@fas.harvard.edu
Paine Hall 4
617-495-9859
Jean books Paine Concert Hall and produces the department's concerts, lectures and conferences.
She also administers the Fromm Foundation at Harvard.

Karen Rynne,
Manager of Administration and Finance
rynne@fas.harvard.edu
Music Building, 101S
617-496-3253
Karen handles all department billing and payments, and manages financial accounts and
services the copiers.

Nancy Shafman, Director of Administration
nshafman@fas.harvard.edu
Music Building, 103S
617-495-9855
Nancy coordinates the academic programs for the department and works closely with the chair and faculty. She supervises the department and is knowledgable about teaching requirements, exams, fellowships, financial aid, and the philosophy and organization of the department.

Charles Stillman, Front Office Co-Manager
stillman@fas.harvard.edu
Music Building, Reception
617-495-2791
Charles is reponsible for room reservations, mail operations, practice rooms and all reception duties.

Seth Torres, HUSEAC Technical Director
storres@fas.harvard.edu
Paine Hall 21
617-496-6683
Seth maintains and manages the electronic music studio and assists Hans Tutschku, studio director.

Fernando Viesca, Building Manager
fviesca@fas.harvard.edu
G-4
617-495-9851
Fernando manages all things having to do with the physical plant: electrical and internet connections, telephones, computers, heat, and air conditioning, plumbing and all special construction projects.

   



 
 

 

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