People
Chair
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 »
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant
Associate Professor of the Practice of Music
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
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
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
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 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
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, educator and actor John Brown is a native of Fayetteville, North Carolina, and currently resides in Durham, NC. He is a graduate of the School of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. John... 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) 660-3300
Carla Copeland-Burns
Instructor of Music
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 660-3300
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
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 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 Mary Duke Biddle Music Building, 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 »
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
David Heid
Instructor of Music
Office: 010 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3303
Stephen Jaffe
Mary D. B. T. and James H. Semans Professor of Music Composition, in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
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
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 »
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
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 in the Department 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 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 403-9207
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
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... 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 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
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
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
Julia Thompson
Instructor of Music
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 660-3300
R. Larry Todd
Arts and Sciences 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.
Kevin Van Sant
Instructor of Music
Staff
Cecelia Goldman
Administrative Secretary
Office: 105 Mary Duke Biddle Bldg., Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 277080880
Phone: +1 919 660 3300
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
Shelley Livingston
Staff Associate of Music
Office: 09 Biddle Music, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3313
Rick Nelson
Staff
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Durham, NC 277080665
Campus Box: Box 90665, 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
Sidney Richardson
Research Assistant, Ph D Student
Phone: +1 919 660 3308
Office Hours: By Appointment, 047 Biddle Music Building
Composer Sid Richardson (b. 1987) writes concert music that imbues modern idioms with emotional grit and cerebral wit. He has collaborated on projects with artists such as Conrad Tao, The Da Capo Chamber Players, Deviant Septet, Ensemble Amarcord, and yMusic. Sid’s arrangement of the Bach Double... Full Profile »
John Santoianni
Curator of Organs and Harpsichords
Office: Duke Univ Chapel, Room 029, Durham, NC 277080974
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 277080974
Phone: +1 919 684 2181
Kirsten Santos Rutschman
Graduate Assistant
Office: 6106 N Winthrop Ave Apt 1, Chicago, IL 60660
Phone: +1 919 660 3308
Erica Shirts
Director of The Duke String School
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: 105 Biddle Music Building, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: +1 919 660 3313
Roman Testroet
Visiting Instructor
Office: 105 Biddle Music Building, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 277080665
Phone: +1 919 660 3320
Former Duke PhD student in Historical Musicology, current choir director, inveterate dropout. Director of Duke's Collegium Musicum and Director of Music at Pilgrim United Church of Christ in Durham.
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
Rodney Wynkoop
Professor of the Practice of Music
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 »
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
Students and Stacks Manager
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 »
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 »
Ka Man Misty Choi
Student
Education MPhil Historical Musicology, The Chinese University of Hong KongMA Music The Chinese University of Hong KongBA, MPhil Linguistics, The City University of Hong Kong Professional qualificationsLicentiate diploma in Music Theory (LMusTCL), Trinity College of LondonMember of Chartered... Full Profile »
Jon Churchill
Student
Research interests include Ralph Vaughan Williams, semiotics, and the intersection of music and trauma.
Liz Crisenbery
Student
Liz is a fifth-year PhD Candidate in musicology who studies early twentieth-century Italian opera, exploring the intersection of gender, politics, and music. Her dissertation examines masculine identities of fascist composers and reception of their operas during the height of Italian fascism. Other... 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 »
Dayton Kinney
Student
Office Hours: by appointment only
Dayton Kinney creates music that has won and has been recognized for numerous competitions at the international, national, and state levels. Performed in the U.S. and abroad, Dayton’s music has had notable performances by the International Contemporary Ensemble, 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).
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 »
Amin Sharifi Jabali
Student
Amin Sharifi (Mohammad Amin Sharifi), Iranian contemporary composer, studied Composition at the Art University of Tehran and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music under the direction of Nader Mashayekhi, Mehdi Hosseini, Peter Ablinger, Klaus Lang, David Dzubay, and Don Freund. He also has had... Full Profile »
Nicholas Smolenski
Student
Nicholas Smolenski (2017) is a musicologist interested in sacred music of Jacobean and Caroline England (1603–49) and its role in the Restoration (1660–88), specifically considering theology, spirituality, and English Civil War politics; previous research has involved Thomas Tomkins and his... 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.
