Matthew Zeller
Curator for Europe at the Musical Instrument Museum (Phoenix, AZ)
Matthew Zeller (Ph.D. Music Theory, 2020) is a musicologist and museum curator whose work explores musical timbre, analysis, and representation in music scholarship. In 2022 he was appointed Curator for Europe at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, where he acquires and interprets historic instruments and develops exhibitions that bring musicological research to the public. His scholarly publications include articles in Music Theory Online on timbre and Klangfarbenmelodie in the works of Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern. In 2024 he co-authored the article “Diversity in Music Corpus Studies,” which proposes the Anti-Discriminatory Alignment System (ADAS) for addressing representation and bias in musical corpora and introduces the Timbre in Popular Song (TIPS) project. After completing his Ph.D. at Duke, Zeller held an ACTOR Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University.
