Alumni

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  • Yale University
    Braxton D. Shelley's An Eternal Pitch: Bishop G. E. Patterson, Broadcast Religion, and the Afterlives of Ecstasy was released by the University of California Press in October 2023.…
  • Associate Professor of Music History, University of North Texas
    Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden (Ph.D. Musicology, 2015) has received the American Musicological Society's 2023 Lewis Lockwood Award for an outstanding work of musicological scholarship (early stages) for…
  • Associate Professor of Music, Purdue University
    Lynn Hooker (BA, 1990) has received a stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a project titled, "The Rajkó Gypsy Orchestra of the Hungarian League of Young Communists."
  • Amy Scurria’s opera ALICE, An Operatic Wonderland, has won third place in the Professional Opera Division of the American Prize.
  • Adjunct Instructor of Music, Texas Women's University
    Dayton Kinney (Ph.D. Composition, 2021) has been selected for the Second Round in the senior category of the International Antonin Dvorak Composition Competition for her doctoral…
  • Curator for Europe at the Musical Instrument Museum (Phoenix, AZ)
    Matthew Zeller (Ph.D. Musicology, 2020) became Curator for Europe at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2022.
  • Assistant curator for music and recorded sound, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    Jessica Wood, assistant curator for music and recorded sound at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, featured on NPR.
  • Associate Professor of Music History, University of Hartford
    Karen M. Cook is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Hartford. She specializes in late medieval music theory and notation, focusing on developments in rhythmic duration. Her…
  • Charles Youmans, Associate Professor of Music at Penn State, has recently published Mahler and Strauss: In Dialogue (Indiana University Press, 2016). The book "reconstructs the 24-year…
  • Jean-Paul Montagnier's new book, The Polyphonic Mass in France, 1600-1780, will be released in May 2017 by Cambridge University Press.
  • Dr. Mace's article on Fanny Mendelssohn's Easter Sonata was just published in the Journal of Musicological Research. This article is the culmination of her PhD dissertation work on the Easter…
  • Darren Mueller has been awarded the "Best Essay in Popular Music Scholarship" from the Popular Music Study Group of the AMS for his article (based on a dissertation chapter) "The…
  • Penka Kouneva (Ph.D., Composition, 1997) composed seven tracks on "Women Warriors: The Voices of Change," which won a 2022 GRAMMY for Best Classical Compendium.
  • Claire Fontijn’s edited volume, Uncovering Music of Early European Women (1250-1750), was published by Routledge in June 2020. The book brings together nine chapters that investigate aspects…
  • Paul Sommerfeld received his Ph.D. in Musicology in 2017 and completed an M.S. in Library Science from Catholic University of America in 2019. He works as a music librarian and historian for the…
  • Imani Mosley (Ph.D. 2019) has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Music (Musicology) at the University of Florida School of Music.
  • Sarah Curzi is an independent composer and business owner. She leveraged her training as an educator to create cafephd.com, a website that helps students navigate their college experience. Her…
  • Georgiary Bledsoe is Co-Director of SankofaSongs Summer Institute, a virtual conference for music educators and administrators, PreK-College, taking place July 22-24. With a theme of Scott…
  • Katharina Uhde has been awarded honorary membership in the Society of Musicology Ireland for "particularly notable contributions to furthering musicology in Ireland." She recently presented…
  • Dan Ruccia's (Ph.D. composition, 2013) group Cyanotype released Birdsongs of a Necromancer, a digital-only album recorded during the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Composer Paul Leary (Ph.D. 2011) has been promoted to Associate Professor at SUNY-Oswego.
  • George Lam has accepted an appointment as Associate Professor of Music, Hong Kong Baptist University, beginning Fall 2020.
  • Jazz saxophonist Todd Bashore recorded a multitrack solo performance of his transcription of Take 6's "A Quiet Place" during the Covid-19 pandemic. He teaches Jazz Analysis at…
  • Thandolwethu will be attending the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami in Fall 2020, to study voice with Kim Josephson.