Jacobs School of Music

Pronouns:

He/him

Email:

prossers@iu.edu

Department:

Music Theory

Education

• Ph.D., Music Theory, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2021
• M.Phil., Music Theory, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2021
• M.Mus., Music Theory, Indiana University, 2012
• B.Mus., Music Theory and History, University of Toronto, 2010

Simon Prosser is Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

His dissertation research confronts issues of tonal hierarchy in the music of eighteenth-century Europe from the perspective of schema theory. He has also pursued research on the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. He has presented his work at numerous national and international academic conferences.

He has previously held teaching positions at the Yale School of Music, the Mannes School of Music, Hunter College, Queens College, and the Jacobs School of Music.