People
Chair
Jonathan E. Bagg
Professor of the Practice in the Department of Music
Office: 083 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3331
Jonathan Bagg is Professor of the Practice at Duke University and violist of the Ciompi String Quartet. His career with the Ciompi includes hundreds of concerts across the U.S. and around the world, as well as many recordings. Currently co-Artistic Director of Electric Earth Concerts in New... Full Profile »
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant
Associate Professor of the Practice of Music
Director of the Duke University Wind Symphony
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3306
Office Hours: by appointment; email: verena.m@duke.edu
Verena Moesenbichler-Bryant serves as Associate Professor of the Practice of Music, Director of the Duke University Wind Symphony, and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Music Department. She also conducts the Durham Medical Orchestra. Verena grew up in Eberschwang, Austria. She began piano... Full Profile »
Assistant to the Director of Undergraduate Studies
Director of Graduate Studies
Stephen Jaffe
Mary D. B. T. and James H. Semans Distinguished Professor of Music Composition
Office: 079 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3317
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 ("... Full Profile »
Assistant to the Director of Graduate Studies
Cathy Puckett
Staff Assistant
Office: Music Department, Box 90665, 105 Mary Duke Biddle Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Music Department, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: +1 919 660 3308
Director of Performance
Rodney Wynkoop
Professor of the Practice of Music
Director of the Duke Chorale
Office: Music Dept., 02 Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, 02 Biddle, Durham, NC 27708-0974
Phone: (919) 660-3302
Rodney Wynkoop holds the title of Professor of the Practice of Music in the Music Department, where he teaches choral conducting and conducts the 50-voice Duke University Chorale and its Chamber Choir. He came to Duke in 1984 and was the conductor of the Duke Chapel Choir and its chamber choir, the... Full Profile »
Business Manager
Gretchen Hoag
Business Manager
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 277080665
Phone: +1 919 660 3310
Faculty
Jonathan E. Bagg
Professor of the Practice in the Department of Music
Office: 083 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3331
Jonathan Bagg is Professor of the Practice at Duke University and violist of the Ciompi String Quartet. His career with the Ciompi includes hundreds of concerts across the U.S. and around the world, as well as many recordings. Currently co-Artistic Director of Electric Earth Concerts in New... Full Profile »
Paul Berliner
Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music
Office: 105 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3322
Thomas Brothers
Professor of Music
Office: 071 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3309
John V. Brown
Professor of the Practice of Music
Director of the Duke Jazz Program
Office: Biddle Music Building, Office 064, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3385
Office Hours: Office Hours are on Mondays and Wednesdays (from late August through late April) from 6:15-7:15 and by appointment set up via email.
Bassist, composer, producer, actor and educator John Brown is a native of Fayetteville, NC. He is a graduate of the School of Music at UNC-Greensboro, and the School of Law at UNC-Chapel Hill. John has performed for President & Mrs. Barack Obama, and at major venues and festivals in the United... Full Profile »
Paul Bryan, Ph.D.
Professor of Music Emeritus (Wind Symphony, euphonium)
Office: Mary Duke Biddle Bldg., Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: +1 919 660 3300
Emeritus Professor: Conducted the Duke Wind Symphony, Musicologist, specializing in music of the so-called Classic Period of the Eighteenth Century interest, in particular Johann Baptist Wanhal
Laura Byrne
Instructor of Music
Office: 105 Biddle Music Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 741-0934
Carla Copeland-Burns
Instructor of Music
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (336) 327-5019
Noted as a flexible and versatile player, flutist Carla Copeland-Burns currently performs with the Greensboro, North Carolina, and Salisbury Symphonies as well as the North Carolina Opera, Carolina Ballet, Blue Mountain, and with the performer-composer collective Forecast Music. She has been a... Full Profile »
Sandra Cotton
Instructor of Music
Office: 041 Biddle Music Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Harry L. Davidson
Professor of the Practice in the Department of Music
Director of the Duke Symphony Orchestra
Office: 077 Biddle Music, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3324
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 6:00PM - 7:15PM
Susan R. Dunn
Professor of the Practice Emerita of Music
Office: 075 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3323
Interest and strength in German lied, Italian and German opera, Broadway and art songs in all languages, directing opera and popular song performances.
Don Eagle
Instructor of Music
Office: 105 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Susan Fancher
Instructor of Music
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Susan Fancher is an internationally-recognized concert saxophonist known for her deep and poetic musical interpretations. A much sought after performer of new music, she has inspired and premiered over 100 new works for saxophone. She is an active soloist and chamber musician, performing regularly... Full Profile »
David Finucane
Instructor of Music
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Roseen Giles
Assistant Professor of Music
Office: 060 Biddle Music Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 660-3311
Roseen Giles is a musicologist with a specialty in early modern musical culture; she is also the curator of DUMIC (Duke University Musical Instrument Collections). In her research she examines the aesthetic, professional, and personal relationships between poets and musicians of the Italian Baroque... Full Profile »
Bryan Gilliam
Professor Emeritus of Music
Office: 067 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3321
Ph.D., Harvard University. Author of books and articles on late 19th-and early 20th-century German music. Specialties include Richard Strauss, Anton Bruckner, Kurt Weill, Erich Korngold, 19th and 20th-century German opera, fin-de-siècle Vienna, film music, German musical aesthetics.
Jimmy Gilmore
Instructor of Music
Office: 105 Mary Duke Biddle Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Susan Greenberg
Instructor of Music
Office: 105 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Eren Gumrukcuoglu
Instructor of Music
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 660-3300
David Heid
Instructor of Music
Director of the Duke Opera Theater
Office: 010 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3303
David Heid David Heid comes to North Carolina after a successful career in New York City as a vocal coach/accompanist. Among the many well-known singers he has performed with are Karen Beardsley, Mario Chang, Susan Dunn, Adria Firestone, Carolyn James and Christine Weidinger. Also an arranger and... Full Profile »
Stephen Jaffe
Mary D. B. T. and James H. Semans Distinguished Professor of Music Composition
Office: 079 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3317
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 ("... Full Profile »
Penelope Jensen
Instructor of Music
Office: 062 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Ieva Jokubaviciute
Associate Professor of the Practice of Music
Lithuanian pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute's powerfully and intricately crafted performances have earned her critical acclaim throughout the United States and Europe. Her ability to communicate the essential substance of a work has led critics to describe her as possessing "razor-sharp intelligence and... Full Profile »
Anthony M. Kelley
Associate Professor of the Practice of Music
Office: 078 Biddle Music Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3328
Anthony Kelley began his post as Faculty-in-Residence in Fall, 2007. He’s enjoyed getting to know the residents and interacting with their many ideas and talents. He enjoys the arts--from music to stage to gallery to the big screen--and loves sharing discussion based on common group experiences... Full Profile »
Michael Kris
Instructor of Music
Office: 105 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Hsiao-Mei Ku
Professor of the Practice of Music
Office: 082 Mary Duke Biddle, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3329
Master of Music with Distinction, Indiana University, 1983 Edit Recipient - Performer's Certificate School of Music, Indiana University, 1983 Edit Special Program Iowa State University, 1981 Edit Diploma Central School of Music, Beijing, China, 1970 1. Numerous solo and chamber music... Full Profile »
Scott A. Lindroth
Professor of Music
Office: Duke University Department of Music, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Campus Box: Box 90665, Box 90006, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3307
I am a composer of instrumental and vocal music as well as interactive computer music. My most recent works are Cadences (2016), commissioned by the Electric Earth Concert Series as part of a collaboration with novelist Richard Powers; and Piano Roll Prosody (2017), which was premiered by pianist... Full Profile »
Elizabeth Byrum Linnartz
Instructor of Music
Office: 041A Biddle Music Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Office Hours: Office hours by appointment
Elizabeth Byrum Linnartz, soprano, sings, teaches voice lessons and classes, and collaborates with other departments at Duke. In Duke Divinity School she taught “The Role of Music in Corporate Worship,” presented a lecture/recital on Britten’s Holy Sonnets of John Donne with Jeremy Begbie and... Full Profile »
Pei Fen Liu
Instructor of Music
Office: 078 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Randall M. Love
Associate Professor of the Practice Emeritus of Music
Office: 085 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3334
historical performance practice on original instruments(fortepiano), nineteenth and twentieth century piano music, musical collaboration with modern dance
Glenn Mehrbach
Staff Associate of Music
Office: 105 Biddle Music, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 277080665
Phone: +1 919 452 5942
Louise Meintjes
Associate Professor of Music
Office: 072 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3339
Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant
Associate Professor of the Practice of Music
Director of the Duke University Wind Symphony
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3306
Office Hours: by appointment; email: verena.m@duke.edu
Verena Moesenbichler-Bryant serves as Associate Professor of the Practice of Music, Director of the Duke University Wind Symphony, and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Music Department. She also conducts the Durham Medical Orchestra. Verena grew up in Eberschwang, Austria. She began piano... Full Profile »
Bo Newsome
Instructor of Music
Office: 105 Biddle Music, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3300
A former resident artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts and an artist for the N.C. Arts Council Visiting Artist Program, oboist Bo Newsome plays an active role in the music scene of North Carolina. He performs with the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, the Coastal Winds (East Carolina University... Full Profile »
Rachel Niketopoulos
Instructor of Music
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Edmund Paolantonio
Instructor of Music
Office: 105 Mary Duke Biddle Building, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Robert Parkins
Professor of the Practice in the Department of Music
Office: 66 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3315
Robert Parkins is the University Organist and a Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke University. He first assumed the position of Chapel Organist at Duke in 1975, then joined the faculty of the School of Music at Ithaca College in 1982, returning to Duke in 1985. A graduate of the University... Full Profile »
Eric N. Pritchard
Professor of the Practice in the Department of Music
Office: 084 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3325
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... Full Profile »
Frederic B. Raimi
Professor of the Practice Emeritus of Music
Office: 080 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3327
Randy Reed
Instructor of Music
Office: 105 Mary Duke Biddle Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Francis Roberts
Instructor of Music
Office: 105 Biddle Music Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90065, Durham, NC 27708-0065
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Mary Kay Robinson
Instructor of Music
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Philip Rupprecht
Professor of Music
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Box 90665 Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Office Hours: MW 10-12 Appointments - email: cecelia.goldman@duke.edu
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. His new book, British Musical... Full Profile »
Alexander Silbiger
Professor Emeritus of Music
Office: 105 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Bradley Simmons
Instructor of Music
Director of the Djembé & Afro-Cuban Ensembles
Office: Du Music Department, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90850, Durham, NC 27708-0850
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Caroline Stinson
Associate Professor of the Practice of Music
Director of Chamber Music
Cellist Caroline Stinson performs widely as a chamber musician, soloist, and recitalist, committed to giving equal expression to music old and new. This season, Ms. Stinson begins her appointment as Cellist of the Ciompi String Quartet and Associate Professor of the Practice at Duke University. ... Full Profile »
Nicholas Stoia
Assistant Professor of Music
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 660-3300
John Supko
Associate Professor of Music
Office: 059 Mary Duke Biddle Building, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3361
Called “spellbindingly beautiful” (Steve Smith, Time Out New York), "hypnotic...eerily beautiful" (Vivien Schweitzer, The New York Times), and "fascinating" (Philip Clark, The Guardian), the work of composer John Supko (b. 1980, NY) explores intersections: chance and intention; traditional music... Full Profile »
Julia Thompson
Instructor of Music
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Percussionist Julia Thompson performs regularly with the North Carolina Symphony, North Carolina Opera, Carolina Ballet, Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, and the Colorado MahlerFest. Locally, she has also appeared with New Music Raleigh, Carolina Brass, numerous national touring shows, theater... Full Profile »
R. Larry Todd
Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Music in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
Office: 081 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3300
Rebecca Troxler
Associate Professor of the Practice Emerita of Music
Office: 060 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3311
I have submitted a boxed set of 2 CDs of the flute music of the sons of J.S. Bach to be released on the Albany label.
Jacqueline Waeber
Associate Professor of Music
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3316
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'.
Rodney Wynkoop
Professor of the Practice of Music
Director of the Duke Chorale
Office: Music Dept., 02 Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, 02 Biddle, Durham, NC 27708-0974
Phone: (919) 660-3302
Rodney Wynkoop holds the title of Professor of the Practice of Music in the Music Department, where he teaches choral conducting and conducts the 50-voice Duke University Chorale and its Chamber Choir. He came to Duke in 1984 and was the conductor of the Duke Chapel Choir and its chamber choir, the... Full Profile »
Rachel Yonan
Instructor of Music
Praised for her expressive playing and rich evocative tone, violist Rachel Yonan has become a presence in the music world. She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in concert halls across the United States, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and China; and on National Public Radio and Canadian... Full Profile »
Staff
Sarah Griffin
Public Services Assistant
Office: 113B Biddle Music Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90661, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: +1 919 660 6937
Gretchen Hoag
Business Manager
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 277080665
Phone: +1 919 660 3310
Rick Nelson
Program Coord
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Durham, NC 277080665
Phone: +1 919 660 3330
Cathy Puckett
Staff Assistant
Office: Music Department, Box 90665, 105 Mary Duke Biddle Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Music Department, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: +1 919 660 3308
Blake Ray
Musician
Phone: +1 919 660 3300
Blake Ray is a Staff Accompanist in the Department of Music.
John Santoianni
Esc Curator, Orgn & Harpsichds
Office: Duke Univ Chapel, Room 029, Durham, NC 277080974
Phone: +1 919 684 2181
Daniel Seyfried
Musician
Phone: +1 919 660 3300
Daniel Seyfried is a Staff Accompanist in the Department of Music. He is a flexible performer with broad interests including: Debussy and early twentieth-century composers, jazz-influenced classical composers, and performance on the fortepiano and historical instruments. Daniel earned his D.M.A.... Full Profile »
Erica Shirts
Director of The Duke String School
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: 105 Biddle Music Building, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: +1 919 660 3313
Hye-Bin Song
Musician
Phone: +1 919 660 3300
Hye-Bin Song is a Staff Accompanist in the Department of Music.
Elizabeth Thompson
Staff
Office: 054 Biddle Music, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 277080665
Phone: +1 919 660 3333
Laura Williams
Music Librarian
Office: Music Library, 113 Biddle Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90661, Durham, NC 277080187
Phone: +1 919 660 5952
Robert Zimmerman
Visiting Instructor of Music
Office: 105 Biddle Music, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 277080665
Phone: +1 919 660 3300
Music Library
Jamie Keesecker
Collections Manager and Public Services Specialist
Office: 113B Biddle Music Building
Campus Box: 90661
Phone: 919-660-5989
Graduate Students
Maximiliano Amici
Student
I always enjoy composing, and I particularly like to explore diverse, multiple facets of music making, as mirrors of being and acting in the world. I was born in Rome in 1980 into a family of musicians. Apart from playing violin in my childhood, I started serious studies of music late in my life,... Full Profile »
Cody Black
Student
Cody Black is a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology at Duke University. Interdisciplinarily trained in cultural anthropology and East Asian studies, he researches the intersection of sound, everyday life, and the (im)possibilit(y/ies) of the future in neoliberal South Korea. Drawing from long-term... Full Profile »
James Budinich
Student
James Budinich composes music inspired by minimalism, Croatian folk traditions, and American popular music. He has written for orchestra, voice, chamber ensembles, solo instruments, and electronics. He has collaborated with Lindsay Brown (Love’s Lost Words for mezzo-soprano, cello, and piano),... Full Profile »
Devon Carter
Student
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Student in Musicology, 2019–PresentDevon Carter is a second-year Ph.D. student in musicology who studies the history of the voice. His current interests include the history and invention of the identification of the voice with the self, the historical and current... Full Profile »
Joanna Chang
Student
Ka Man Misty Choi
Student
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Student in Musicology, 2016–Present Formally trained as a linguist, I am currently working on projects that explore the relation between the musical, the linguistic, and the literary. My dissertation is to investigate the paths through which post-WWII Italian art music in... Full Profile »
Jon Churchill
Student
Jon's research focuses on British Modernism, especially the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, with special attention to the formal and rhetorical effects of musical discontinuity. Further research examines intertextuality in the music of Prince and the evolution of the British Grime genre in the age... Full Profile »
Stephen Downing
Student
Stephen Downing is a North Carolina-based composer, percussionist, and visual artist. His music searches to find the intersection of the classical tradition, organic structures, humor, and the human condition. Some of his musical inspirations include the obsessiveness of minimalism, the energy of... Full Profile »
Brooks Frederickson
Student
Composer Brooks Frederickson writes patient music that is grounded in long lines of slowly evolving textures with understated rhythmic drive. As an active participant in Brooklyn's vibrant contemporary music scene, he has worked with leading new music ensembles Sō Percussion, JACK Quartet,... Full Profile »
Meredith Graham
Student
Meredith is a sixth-year PhD candidate in musicology who studies twentieth-century British choral music. She is interested in text setting in the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells, Grace Williams, and Elizabeth Maconchy. She is currently a Rubenstein Library Intern for Advertising... Full Profile »
Brittany Green
Student
Brittany J. Green (b. 1991) is a North Carolina-based composer, creative, and educator. Described as “cinematic in the best sense” and “searing” (Chicago Classical Review), Brittany’s music is centered around facilitating collaborative, intimate musical spaces that ignite visceral responses. The... Full Profile »
Jonathan Henderson
Student
Jonathan Henderson is a North Carolina-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, writer, producer, and educator. A PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at Duke University, Jonathan's academic research concerns how local musical traditions are transformed through recording studio practice and come to... Full Profile »
Kinley Johnson
Student
Kinley Johnson is a first-year musicologist whose research focuses on music in film and television. Her current research interests include music in cinema after 1970; music, gender, and sexuality in film and media, especially in horror and Japanese animation; and the mass localization of anime in... Full Profile »
Dayton Kinney
Student
Office Hours: by appointment only
Dayton Kinney creates music that has won and has been recognized for numerous competitions. Performed in the U.S. and abroad, Dayton’s music has had notable performances by the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Juventas New Music Ensemble, F-Plus, the Durham Medical Orchestra, Rela... Full Profile »
Hannah Krall
Student
Hannah Krall is a musicologist interested in early music and jazz improvisation, traditional jazz, and music for the viola da gamba. She has a BA in Music from Cornell University (magna cum laude).
Huijuan Ling
Student
Huijuan Ling is a Chinese composer of contemporary concert music whose work has been heard across China, the US, Canada, and Italy, with major performance and commissions from the Shanghai Philharmonia Orchestra, CCM Philharmonia Orchestra, Seven Hills Sinfonietta, JACK Quartet, Line Upon Line... Full Profile »
Molly Martin
Student
Molly Eileen Martin is a first-year musicologist and a vocalist. Molly holds a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, which she completed in May of 2019. There she studied improvisation under the composer and scholar Hankus Netsky, PhD., and voice with the... Full Profile »
Karen Messina
Student
Karen's research interests center on the analysis and interpretation of operatic and vocal music in an effort to determine how these genres express, support, and augment their texts. Her dissertation project, titled “Dramatic Impulse: Diegetic Music in the Operas of Giacomo Puccini,” delves into... Full Profile »
Jason Mulligan
Student
Jason Mulligan is a composer seeking to explore how to blend the western classical tradition with the issues and sensibilities of 21st century life. A native of Dallas, Jason studied music composition at the University of Miami and Peabody Conservatory with Scott Stinson and Kevin Puts... Full Profile »
Maxwell Ramage
Student
BA in Music, Yale UniversityMM in Violin and Composition, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
Harrison Russin
Student
Minato Sakamoto
Student
Minato Sakamoto is a Japanese composer from Osaka. His compositions practice the unserious seriously, fuse spontaneous and organic qualities, and demonstrate a clear connection to the past. Minato is currently studying towards his Ph.D. in composition at Duke University. His current and past... Full Profile »
Amin Sharifi Jabali
Student
Sharifi’s works have been performed in the United States, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Russia, Canada, Poland, Czech Republic and his home Iran. His music was called “creative, individualistic, artistic” by the critique of Juilliard School of Music and “product of an unbridled... Full Profile »
Emily Shyr
Student
Emily Shyr entered the PhD program in Historical Musicology at Duke University in the Fall of 2018. Prior to coming to Duke, she earned her MPhil in American History at the University of Cambridge (2018), and received her Bachelor's degree from Columbia University (2017), where she majored in music... Full Profile »
Nicholas Smolenski
Student
Nicholas Smolenski, a fourth-year candidate and early modernist, studies varying intersections of sound, acoustics, liturgy, and the senses in seventeenth-century English culture. His dissertation explores how sonic and acoustical concerns profoundly affected the rebuilding and reception of St Paul... Full Profile »
Cole Swanson
Student
Cole Swanson is a musicologist interested in 20th-century opera, ecomusicology, and Cold War-era jazz, as well as the intersection of cinema, music/sound, and philosophy. He has an MA in Musicology from Tufts University and BAs from St.Olaf College in Music and Environmental Studies.