Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Anthony M Kelley
- Associate Professor of the Practice of Music
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B.A. and A.M., Duke University, 1991. Ph.D.,
UC Berkeley. Anthony Kelley joined the Duke University music faculty in 2000 after serving as Composer-in-Residence with the Richmond Symphony for three years under a grant from Meet the Composer. He received his B.A. and A.M. from Duke University in 1991. In 1999, Richmond Symphony premiered his piano ...
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Director of Graduate Studies
- Jacqueline Waeber
- Associate Professor of Music
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Melodrama and related genres, from opera to film; theatrical practices and visual cultures; French musical aesthetics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, music and philosophy of the arts; the 'chanson populaire'.
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Faculty
Composition
- Stephen Jaffe
- Mary and James H. Semans Professor of Music Composition
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My recent collaborations have been with the National Symphony
Orchestra, The North Carolina Symphony, and the Kennedy Center Chamber Players, and have included orchestral works
(Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Poetry of the Piedmont, and
Cut Time) as well as chamber music (String Quartet No. 2
("Sylvan and Aeolian Figures"). Fortunately, I am also able to ...
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- Anthony M Kelley
- Associate Professor of the Practice of Music
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B.A. and A.M., Duke University, 1991. Ph.D.,
UC Berkeley. Anthony Kelley joined the Duke University music faculty in 2000 after serving as Composer-in-Residence with the Richmond Symphony for three years under a grant from Meet the Composer. He received his B.A. and A.M. from Duke University in 1991. In 1999, Richmond Symphony premiered his piano ...
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- Scott A Lindroth
- Vice Provost for the Arts, Professor of Music
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I compose instrumental and vocal music as
well as work with electronic media. My most recent
composition is Twitter Music for
two percussion and electronics.
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- John P Supko
- Hunt Family Assistant Professor of Music
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I am interested in the creative potential for randomness in music, as well as in the development of new ways of writing music which respond to the profound changes in the habits of modern listeners.
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Ensemble Directors
- John V Brown
- Associate Professor of the Practice of Music and Director of the Duke Jazz Program
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My areas of research are jazz and classical music; I focus on the music of the Bebop and Hard Bop eras of jazz and all aspects of performance. I also have interests in children's music and projects collaborating with other musicians.
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- Karen M Cook
- Director of the Duke University Collegium Musicum
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Areas of interest:
- early notation
- early instrumental performance
- early vocal music
- intersection of religion & music
- 17th-century Rome
- Reformation-era studies
- neo-medievalism
- music and cultural representation
- contenance angloise studies
- music and media
- popular music studies
- jazz and culture
- music and patronage
- music ...
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- Harry L Davidson
- Professor of the Practice of Music and Director of Duke Symphony Orchestra
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- Susan Dunn
- Professor of the Practice of Music (voice) and Director of Opera
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- Verena M. Moesenbichler-Bryant
- Director of the Duke University Wind Symphony and Assistant Professor of the Practice of Music
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Verena Moesenbichler-Bryant serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of the Practice of Music and Director of the Duke University Wind Symphony. She also conducts the Duke Medicine Orchestra and the North Carolina Saxophone Ensemble.
Verena grew up in Eberschwang, Austria. She began piano lessons at the age of 6, continuing later with church organ, flute, ...
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- Bradley E. Simmons
- Adjunct Lecturer, Director of the Duke Djembe Ensemble
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- Rodney A Wynkoop
- Professor of the Practice of Music, Director of Duke Chorale and Chamber Choir, and Director of Chapel Music
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Music Theory
- Philip Rupprecht
- Associate Professor (Music Theory and Musicology)
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Philip Rupprecht specializes in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His recent writings engage concepts of narrative in operatic drama, the trope of stereotype in the formation of national traditions in music, and agency effects in instrumental music. Currently, he is completing a study of British modernist composers of the 1960s.
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Musicology
- Bryan Gilliam
- Frances Hill Fox Professor in Humanities
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Ph.D., Harvard University. Author of books and articles
on late 19th-and early 20th-century German music.
Specialties include Richard Strauss, Anton Bruckner,
German opera, fin-de-siècle Vienna, film music, and
American popular song.
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- Jacqueline Waeber
- Associate Professor of Music
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Melodrama and related genres, from opera to film; theatrical practices and visual cultures; French musical aesthetics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, music and philosophy of the arts; the 'chanson populaire'.
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Performance: Brass and Percussion
- James D. Henry
- Assistant Professor of Music Emeritus (Marching Band, conducting)
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Performance: Keyboard
- Randall M Love
- Associate Professor of the Practice of Music (piano)
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historical performance practice on original instruments(fortepiano), nineteenth and twentieth century piano music, musical collaboration with modern dance
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- Robert Parkins
- Professor of the Practice of Music (organ) and University Organist
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Performance: Strings
- Jonathan E Bagg
- Professor of the Practice of Music (viola), Director of Performance, Director of Chamber Music, and Member of Ciompi Quartet
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Jonathan Bagg is Professor of the Practice, a member of the Ciompi String Quartet, and Artistic Director of Electric Earth Concerts, a classical series he recently founded in New Hampshire. His career with the Ciompi includes hundreds of concerts across the U.S. and abroad, in Europe, China, Israel, and South America, as well as over a dozen recordings. ...
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- Hsiao-Mei Ku
- Professor of the Practice of Music (violin) and Member of Ciompi Quartet
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1. Numerous solo and chamber music appearances internationally as well as in the U. S. A. 2.Recordings with Ciompi Quartet on Sheffield Lab and Albany labels.
3.Solo CD album, "Music of Violn and Piano of Ma Sicong (I)", is first of the Naxos’s new series “Chinese Classics”, released under Naxos in July 2007 4. Solo CD of ...
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- Eric N Pritchard
- Professor of the Practice of Music (violin) and Member of Ciompi Quartet
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As First Violinist of the Ciompi Quartet of Duke University, Eric Pritchard performs regularly throughout the U.S. and abroad and can be heard on many commercial recordings. He has appeared as soloist with orchestras including
the Boston Pops and Indianapolis Philharmonic. Festival appearances include Mostly Mozart, Norfolk, Great Lakes Chamber ...
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- Frederic B Raimi
- Professor of the Practice of Music (cello) and Member of Ciompi Quartet
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Performance: Voice
- Sandra M Cotton
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of the Practice of Music (voice)
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- Penelope C Jensen
- Adjunct Associate Professor of the Practice of Music (voice)
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Performance: Woodwinds
- Susan L Fancher
- Lecturer (saxophone)
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Susan Fancher’s career has featured hundreds of concerts internationally as a soloist and as the member of chamber music ensembles, including the Red Clay, Amherst, Vienna and Rollin’ Phones saxophone quartets. Her work to develop the repertoire for the saxophone has produced dozens of commissioned works by contemporary composers, as well as published transcriptions of music by ...
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- Paul H Jeffrey
- Professor of the Practice of Music Emeritus (jazz studies, saxophone) and Director of Jazz Studies
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- Rebecca Troxler
- Associate Professor of the Practice of Music (flute)
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I am currently editing a recording of chamber music of C.P.E. Bach and will be exploring a recording of period instruments performing music to accompany 17th and 18th century dance.
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Staff
Graduate Studies Assistant and Payroll Clerk
Music Library
Graduate Students
Composition
- Alex H. Kotch
- Composition
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researching electro-acoustic dance music in Berlin 2012-2013
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- Amy C. Scurria
- Composition
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I am currently working on a full length opera with Carol Gilligan, author of In a Different Voice, Krya, and The Birth of Pleasure), Jonathan Gilligan, and grammy nominated conductor Sara Jobin. The opera, Pearl, is based on Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and presents itself as a modern look at feminism and gender truth and equality in the face of ...
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Musicology
- Samantha D. Arten
- Musicology
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Areas of interest: music and theology, liturgical practice, the sacred/secular divide, musical borrowing, gender depictions, sexual politics, music editing, early music performance practice
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- Rebecca D. Geoffroy-Schwinden
- Musicology
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Rebecca is currently conducting archival research in Paris, France, for her dissertation on musical performances and discourses during the French Revolution, which connects the lived experience of music during the Revolution to French philosophies of music from the late-seventeenth through early-nineteenth centuries and investigates the articulations ...
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- Gavin Shin-Kang Lee
- Musicology
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I am interested in the impact of music on the body in intercultural contexts such as postcolonialism, Buddhism, and modernity. By musical embodiment, I mean musical perception, emotion, and identity-narratives in combination, topics which are conventionally segregated in research. Embodiment is further qualified as being social and ambiguous in nature. Currently, I am ...
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- Angela R. Mace
- Musicology
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Dissertation: "Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and the Formation of the Mendelssohnian Style"
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- Andrew C. Pester
- Musicology
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Music in the Third Republic, France (1870-1940).
Professional Affiliations:
American Musicological Society;
Society for Christian Scholarship in Music;
The Westfield Center;
Organ Historical Society;
American Guild of Organists;
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- Matthew A. Somoroff
- Musicology
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I'm currently doing dissertation fieldwork in New York City. My dissertation is an ethnographic study of a small community that coalesces around and is largely defined by a shared interest in witnessing and listening to performances and recordings of a subgenre of improvised music carrying a varied nomenclature that includes the designations: "free ...
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