Name (Degree) |
Hometown |
Prior Education |
Other Information |
| Joerg Adler (PhD) |
Gernsheim, Hessen Germany |
BM Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium, Frankfurt an Main
MM Indiana University |
Interests: Undecided (still exploring!) |
| Daniel Arthurs (PhD) |
Garland, TX |
BM University of Tulsa
MM Indiana University |
Interests: Schenker, pedagogy, the Romantic period |
| Sara Bakker (PhD) |
London, ON Canada |
BA Eastern Michigan University
MA University of Western Ontario |
Interests: 20th-century harmony and counterpoint, music of Bela Bartok |
| Tim Best (PhD) |
Charlottesville, VA |
BM New England Conservatory
MM Indiana University |
Interests: Text/music relations in the 19th-century Lied, pitch relations in early 20th-century freely atonal music, semiotics, interpretive analysis |
| Matthew Boyer (PhD) |
Corpus Christi, TX |
BM Baylor University
MM Indiana University |
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| Matthew Boyle (MM) |
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BM University of Georgia |
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| Pat Budelier (PhD) |
Davenport, IA |
BM St. Ambrose University
MM Indiana University |
Interests: Post-tonal theory and analysis, musical form and transformation, texture, pedagogy, Carter
Dissertation: "Harmony, Space, and Form in Four Post-2000 Works by Elliott Carter"
Teaching at: Illinois Wesleyan University |
| Timothy Chenette (PhD) |
Grinnell, IA |
BA Kenyon College
MM Indiana University |
Interests: History of theory, Scarlatti |
| Mark Chilla (PhD) |
Alpharetta, GA |
BM University of Georgia
MM Indiana University |
Interests: German Lieder, American Popular Song, Schenkerian Analysis |
| Diego Cubero (MM) |
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| Nicole DiPaolo (MM) |
Northville, MI |
BM University of Michigan |
Interests: The use of composition in undergraduate pedagogy, Schenkerian Analysis of neo-tonal music, juvenilia of the great composers, music perception and cognition. |
| Amy Engelsdorfer (PhD) |
Lexington, KY |
BME, MM, MA University of Kentucky |
Teaching at: Depauw University -- Greencastle, IN |
| Stanley Fink (MM) |
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| Kyle Fyr (PhD) |
Granger, IN |
BS Purdue University
MM San Francisco Conservatory
MM Indiana University |
Interests: 20th-century harmony and counterpoint, American minimalism |
| Stephen Grazzini (PhD) |
State College, PA |
BM Penn State University
MM Indiana University |
Interests: Thoroughbass, improvisation, the Italian baroque. |
| Matthew Groves (PhD) |
St. Louis, MO |
BA Truman State University
MA University of Iowa |
Interests: Cognition, semiotics, popular music |
| William Guerin (PhD) |
Waltham, MA |
BA Dartmouth College
MM Indiana University |
Interests: Compositional strategies in post-functional tonality, the music of Britten, twentieth-century opera, popular and electronic music and performance contexts. |
| Alissa Guntren (PhD) |
Sioux City, IA |
BM Boston University
MM University of Cincinnati
PD Indiana University |
Interests: Interpretive Analysis, Romanticism, Schenkerian Analysis, and Analysis and Performance |
| Jason Jedlicka (MM) |
Cleveland, OH |
BM Ohio State University |
Interests: Minimalism (especially Reich), Alkan, popular music, American music. |
| Christy Keele (PhD) |
Grand Forks, ND |
BM University of Nebraska
MM Indiana University |
Interests: Schenker, the Romantic period, musical meaning and popular music |
| Min-Jung Koh (PhD) |
Korea |
BM, MM Indiana University |
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| Justin Lavacek (PhD) |
Baldwin, NY |
BM Loyola University
MM Peabody Conservatory |
Interests: Bach, Chopin, musical meaning, counterpoint before 1750 |
| Michael McClimon (MM) |
Greer, SC |
BM Furman University |
Interests: Jazz, Schenkerian analysis, Post-WWII music |
| Andrew McIntyre (PhD) |
Montpelier, VT |
BA Emory University
MM University of Massachusetts Amherst |
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| Andreas Metz (PhD) |
Augsburg, Germany |
BM McGill University
MA University of British Columbia |
Interests: Brahms, Schoenberg, Adorno, Schenkerian analysis, pacing, history of theory
Teaching at: Baldwin-Wallace College -- Berea, OH |
| Garrett Michaelsen (PhD) |
San Rafael, CA |
BM Eastman School of Music
MM Indiana University |
Interests: 20th-century music including jazz and avant-garde improvisation in particular |
| Mitch Ohriner (PhD) |
Knoxville, TN |
BM University of Colorado
MM Indiana University |
Interests: Computational models of performance and expressive timing. |
| John Reef (PhD) |
Montgomery Village, MD |
BM University of Maryland
MM University of Maryland
MA UNC Chapel Hill |
Interests: Schenkerian analysis, counterpoint, seventeenth-century music, pedagogy, issues of canon formation, diversity in music |
| Katrina Roush (PhD) |
Wooster, OH |
BA Indiana Wesleyan University
MM Michigan State University |
Interests: Schenkerian analysis, form, counterpoint, and pedagogy. |
| Loren Serfass (PhD) |
Ames, IA |
BM Eastman School of Music
MM Indiana University |
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| Megan Schindele (PhD) |
Atlanta, GA |
BM Georgia State University
MM Indiana University |
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| Paul Sherrill (PhD) |
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BA Yale University |
Interests: Theorys of rhythm and meter, transformational theory, minimalism and other 20th century repertoires. |
| Trina Thompson (PhD) |
Walla Walla, WA |
BA Walla Walla College
MM Northern Illinois University |
Interests: Schenkerian analysis, pedagogy, text and music, cultural studies
Dissertation Title: "The Rhetoric of Suggestion in Selected Vocal Works of Debussy: Musical Topic and Temporality"
Teaching at: Andrews University (Berrien Springs, MI) |
| Melissa Thornton (PhD) |
Toronto, ON Canada |
MA University of Toronto
BMus University of Toronto |
Interests: Schenkerian analysis, film music, allusions and quotations, history of music theory pedagogy and compositional procedures |
| Ruth Umthun (MM) |
Des Moines, IA |
BM Northwestern College (IA) |
Interests: Ethnomusicology, post-1900 music, Japanese language, spider solitaire |
| Michael Vidmar-McEwen (PhD) |
Cleveland, OH |
BA College of Wooster
MA Notre Dame |
Interests: Schenkerian analysis, music and text, musical meaning, Benjamin Britten
Teaching at: The College of Wooster (Wooster, OH) |
| Jeffrey Vollmer (PhD) |
Wilmington, DE |
BM Penn State University
MA Penn State University |
Interests: chromatic harmony, pitch-space, pedagogy & transformational theory |
| Sarah Wangberg (PhD) |
Moorhead, MN |
BA St. Olaf College
MM Colorado
MM Indiana University |
Interests: Theory pedagogy and theory as it relates to performance |
| Joseph Williams (PhD) |
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| Alvin Yu (MM) |
Hong Kong, China |
BA University of Oregon
BS University of Oregon
MA University of Michigan |
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| Grace Yu (PhD) |
Hong Kong, China |
BA The Chinese University of Hong Kong
MM Indiana University |
Interests: Relationships between music and other art media, music semiotics, analysis and performance, Liszt
Dissertation Title: “A Semiotical Interpretation of Liszt's Piano Works in Light of their Extramusical Sources”
Teaching at: The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts |
