Current Students
The list below includes all current graduate students in the Music Theory Department.
Please email corrections and updates to mustheor [at] indiana [dot] edu.
For information about graduates of the Ph.D. program, see the Alumni Tracker.
Name (Degree) |
Hometown |
Prior Education |
Other Information |
| Knar Abrahamyan (MM) | |||
| Alyssa Barna (MM) | BM Ithaca College | ||
| Nikolas Bauchat (PhD) | Fayetteville, GA | BA Florida State University MM University of Georgia MM Indiana University |
Interests: Webern, hermeneutics, popular music theory, text and music relations |
| 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 Teaching at Oberlin Conservatory |
| Matthew Bilik (MM) | |||
| Nathan Blustein (PhD) | BM Indiana University MM Indiana University |
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| Matthew Boyle (PhD) | BM University of Georgia MM Indiana University |
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| Devin Chaloux (PhD) | Bedford, NH | BM University of Connecticut MM University of Cincinnati |
Interests: Transformational theory, corpus studies, Edvard Grieg, 19th-and early 20th-century American composers, Renaissance modal theory and analysis |
| Ruthie Chase (PhD) | Des Moines, IA | BM Northwestern College (IA) MM Indiana University |
Intersts: Ethnomusicology, post-1900 music, Japanese language, spider solitaire |
| Mark Chilla (PhD) | Alpharetta, GA | BM University of Georgia MM Indiana University |
Interests: German Lieder, American Popular Song, Schenkerian Analysis |
| Sarah Climis (PhD) | Moorhead, MN | BA St. Olaf College MM Colorado MM Indiana University |
Interests: Theory pedagogy and theory as it relates to performance |
| Diego Cubero (PhD) | San Jose, Costa Rica | BM Georgia State University MM Indiana University |
Interests: Schenkerian analysis, music and meaning, time, and 19th-century philosophy |
| Nicole DiPaolo (PhD) | 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, form and phrase structure |
| Thomas (Craig) Duke (PhD) | |||
| Ethan Edl (MM) | |||
| Stephen Grazzini (PhD) | State College, PA | BM Penn State University MM Indiana University |
Interests: Thoroughbass, improvisation, the Italian Baroque |
| William Guerin (PhD) | Waltham, MA | AB Dartmouth College MM Indiana University |
Interests: Musical meaning in twentieth-century opera, music semiotics, Benjamin Britten, electronic and computer music Dissertation title: "Stylistic Interaction in John Adams's Nixon in China: An Approach to a General Theory of Polystylism" |
| 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 |
| Chelsey Hamm (PhD) | Skaneateles, NY | BM Ithaca College MM Florida State University |
Interests: Schenkerian analysis, music and meaning, text and musical relationships, and twentieth-century music (especially Charles Ives) |
| Jason Jedlicka (PhD) | Cleveland, OH | BM Ohio State University MM Indiana University |
Interests: American and European minimalism and other related repertoires, popular music, 19th-century keyboard literature |
| Christy Keele (PhD) | Grand Forks, ND | BM University of Nebraska MM Indiana University |
Interests: Schenker, the Romantic period, musical meaning and popular music |
| John Kluge (MM) | Rochester, NY | BM SUNY-Fredonia | |
| Stephen Komer (MM) | |||
| Nathan Lam (PhD) | |||
| Lucy Liu (PhD) | London, Ontario | BA University of Western Ontario | |
| Michael McClimon (PhD) | Greer, SC | BM Furman University | Interests: Jazz, rhythm and meter, Schenkerian analysis |
| Juan Mesa (PhD) | |||
| 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 |
| Nathaniel Mitchell (MM) | |||
| Joseph Noelliste (PhD) | MM Indiana University | ||
| John Reef (PhD) | Montgomery Village, MD | BM University of Maryland MM University of Maryland MA UNC Chapel Hill |
Interests: Schenkerian analysis, counterpoint, eighteenth-century music, pedagogy, issues of canon formation, diversity in music Teaching at Oberlin Conservatory |
| Katrina Roush (PhD) | Wooster, OH | BA Indiana Wesleyan University MM Michigan State University |
Interests: Schenkerian analysis, form, counterpoint, and pedagogy |
| Michael Schnitzius (PhD) | |||
| Paul Sherrill (PhD) | BA Yale University | Interests: Theories of rhythm and meter, transformational theory, minimalism and other 20th century repertoires | |
| Ryan Taycher (PhD) | |||
| 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 |
| 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 Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA |
| Matthew Voglewede (PhD) | |||
| Jeffrey Vollmer (PhD) | Wilmington, DE | BM Penn State University MA Penn State University |
Interests: chromatic harmony, pitch space, pedagogy, transformational theory |
| Joseph Williams (PhD) | |||
| Grace Yu (PhD) | Hong Kong | 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 |
| Zachary Zinser (MM) |
