Music

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Linda C. Burman-Hall
Baroque music and performance practices; historic and new keyboard repertoire (harpsichord, organ, and fortepiano); Indonesian music cultures; ethnomusicology

David H. Cope, Emeritus

Sherwood Dudley, Emeritus

Edward F. Houghton, Emeritus

David Evan Jones
Composition and analysis, chamber opera, Balkan music, language and music, timbre and orchestration

Hi Kyung Kim
Composition, theory, contemporary music, analysis, orchestration, Korean music, world music composition, Founder and Artistic Director, Pacific Rim Music Festival

Anatole Leikin
Classical and romantic music history, theory, and performance practices, piano and fortepiano, Russian music

Fredric Lieberman
Ethnomusicology; composition; the music industry and legal/ethical issues; American vernacular musics; musics of east, Southeast, and south Asia; organology

Leta E. Miller
Twentieth-century American music, modern and baroque flute, 16th-century chanson and madrigal, music and science, 18th- and 20th-century flute literature and performance styles, music of C.P.E. Bach and Lou Harrison

Gordon Mumma, Emeritus

Paul Nauert
Theory, composition; rhythm and meter; music cognition; mathematical and computer models of the compositional process

Nicole A. Paiement
Conducting; world premiere performance and recordings; contemporary chamber opera; interdisciplinary art; Founder and Artistic Director, Ensemble Parallèle

John M. Schechter, Emeritus

Associate Professor

Amy C. Beal
American music, 20th-century music, experimental and improvisatory performance practices, postwar and Cold War culture, German new music festivals and radio stations, piano performance, contemporary music ensemble

Karlton E. Hester
Premeditated, electroacoustic, and spontaneous composition; flutes, saxophones, and interdisciplinary performance; improvisational and Afrocentric music theory, analysis and history

Nina Treadwell
Renaissance through early baroque music history and performance practices, early plucked-string instruments (theorbo, renaissance, and baroque guitar; renaissance lute), 16th- and 17th-century Italian theatrical music, gender studies, women and music, literary and critical theory

Assistant Professor

Benjamin L. Carson
Theory and composition, music perception, empiricism and subjectivity, Schoenberg, popular music, improvisation

Tanya H. Merchant
Ethnomusicology, musics of Central Asia and the former Soviet Union, music and gender, identity, nationalism, globalization, and the institutionalization of music

Dard Neuman, Kamil and Talat Hasan Endowed Chair in Classical Indian Music
Ethnomusicology; Hindustani music; colonialism, nationalism, technology and performance; sitar

Lecturer

Erika Arulanantham
Group piano, musicianship

Nathaniel A. Berman
Concert choir

Mark Brandenburg
Clarinet

Paul D. Contos
Saxophone

Mary Jane Cope
Piano, fortepiano

William D. Coulter
Classical guitar

Peter Q. Elsea
Electronic music and music technology

Maria V. Ezerova
Piano, musicianship

Barry L. Green
String bass

Robert Klevan
Wind ensemble, large jazz ensemble

Murray Low
Jazz theory

Patrice L. Maginnis
Voice

Roy T. Malan
Violin, viola

George E. Marsh
Percussion: trap set

Patricia L. Mitchell
Oboe

Owen M. Miyoshi
Trumpet

Mesut Özgen
Classical guitar, classical guitar ensemble

Stan E. Poplin
String bass, jazz ensembles

John T. Sackett
Music theory

Wayne J. Solomon
Trombone

Brian J. Staufenbiel
Voice, university opera theater

Undang Sumarna
West Javanese gamelan

Susan C. Vollmer
Horn

William K. Winant
Orchestral percussion, percussion ensemble

Greer Ellison Wolfson
Flute

The staff
Cello

The staff
Bassoon

The staff
Latin American ensembles

Distinguished Adjunct Professor

Ali Akbar Khan (deceased)
North Indian classical music

Visiting Professor

Aashish Khan
North Indian classical music