Music
The School of Music offers graduate programs and degrees in three broad fields of specialization: performance, composition, and music scholarship.
Faculty Members in Music
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Anderson, L. Mark | Piano, Piano Pedagogy |
| Carrabre, T. Patrick | Music; construction of identity; creation of shared musical spaces with indigenous and non-western musicians; decolonization; use of interactive electronics |
| Chang, Dorothy | Composition |
| Davis, Ryan | Strings |
| Fisher, Alexander | Music, n.e.c.; musicology; music; Sound Studies; History; religious history |
| Franch Ballester, Jose | Spanish clarinetist |
| Fung, David | |
| Gillham, David | violin |
| Girard, Jonathan | conducting, orchestra, opera, new music, conducting pedagogy, orchestral repertoire, symphonic music, orchestral music, orchestration, Berlioz, Stravinsky |
| Hamel, Keith | Music composition; Composition; Interactive Computer Music |
| Hamm, Corey | Piano and Chamber music |
| Hermiston, Nancy Jane | Performing arts, n.e.c.; Other medical sciences; opera, voice, theatre, interdisciplinary work with a diversity of fields and opera; Opera training and its effect on sculpting the brain - Wall Opera Project, Hermiston/L/Boyd/J Werker |
| Hesselink, Nathan | Music; ethnomusicology; music analysis; entrainment; rhythmic play and social meaning; Anglo-American rock music; African American popular music |
| Jun, Hyejung | Music; choral |
| Langager, Graeme | choral conducting |
| Law, Hedy | Opera; eighteenth-century French music; opera; pantomime; dance; gesture; sign; the Enlightenment; Cantonese music; Cantonese opera; Cantonese songs; tone language; global Cantonese music; global music history; gender and sexuality; music and race |
| Maler, Anabel | Humanities and the arts; music and disability studies; music in Deaf culture; music perception; embodiment and gesture; post-tonal form; intersections of music theory, musicology, and ethnomusicology |
| Metzer, David | Popular Music, Classical Music, Popular Culture, Musicology, Jazz Studies |
| Poudrier, Eve | Music theory; Theories of rhythm and meter, with a special emphasis on temporal multiplicity and twentieth-century music; Music cognition, especially rhythm, expertise, and cross-cultural issues; Schenkerian analysis |
| Raftery, James | opera; baritone; tenor |
| Robinson, Dylan | Indigenous Arts |
| Sharon, Rena | chamber music and conflict resolution, art song / lieder, young artist experience summer camp |
| Szabo, Krisztina | |
| Taylor, Robert | Music, Concert Band, Wind Ensemble, Music Education, Conducting, Instrumental conducting, brass instruments |
| Tenzer, Michael | Music Cultures of the World, Rhythm, Music and Human Evolution, Music and Cultural Critique, Jazz, Indonesian Music, Contemporary Art Music, Performance, composition, promoting interest in the world's finest musics |
| Van Handel, Leigh | |
| Vellutini, Claudio | Music; Critical Musicology; Cultural and reception history of nineteenth-century Italian opera; Early 19th century music (opera); Habsburg cultural policies; Historiography; Italian opera in the Habsburg Empire; Performance and staging practices; Vienna opera (first half of 19th century) |
| Whitney, Valerie | Music; French Horn |
| Wood, Jasper | Violin, chamber music |