Chair
Bruce Holsinger
Director of Graduate Studies
Scott DeVeaux
Director of Undergraduate Programs
Matthew Burtner
Director of Music Performance
Joel Rubin
- Matthew Burtner
- Ted Coffey
- Judith Shatin
Conducting
- Andrew Koch
- William Pease
- Michael Slon
- Kate Tamarkin
Musicology/Ethnomusicology & Music Theory Faculty
- Melvin Butler
- Scott DeVeaux
- Bonnie Gordon
- Bruce Holsinger
- Michelle Kisliuk
- Fred Maus
- Michael Puri
- Joel Rubin
- Paul Walker
- Richard Will
Emeriti Faculty
- Donald Loach
- Ernest Mead
- Merita McClymonds
- Walter Ross
- Milos Velimirovic
Visiting Faculty
- Nathan Currier
- Heather Maxwell
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Academic Faculty
Matthew Burtner, Director of Undergraduate Programs, Assistant Professor, Composer Office: OCH 201 Office Hours: Tuesday 1-4pm, OCH 205 Phone: (434) 924-6494 E-mail: mburtner@virginia.edu Web: Matthew Burtner's Website Education: D.M.A. in composition, Stanford University/CCRMA; M.M. in computer music, Peabody Conservatory; B.F.A. in composition, Tulane University; Additional studies at Xenakis' CEMAMu UPIC, Paris. Research interests: Composition and sound art; music technology; interactive computer music performance; multimedia; ecoacoustics. More about Matthew Burtner |
Melvin Butler, Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 11am-12pm, OCH 214 Phone: (434) 982-4535 E-mail: mlb6uu@virginia.edu Education: B.M in saxophone performance, Berklee College of Music; M.A. in Music (jazz studies), New York University; M.A. in Music (ethnomusicology), New York University; Ph.D. in Music (ethnomusicology), New York University. Research interests: Music and religion in the Caribbean; African American music, specializing in gospel and jazz; Pentecostalism; ritual; ethnography; transnationalism; identity More about Melvin Butler |
Ted Coffey, Assistant Professor, Composition Office Hours: Thursday 1-3pm, OCH 215 Phone: (434) 924-6501 E-mail: ejc3q@virginia.edu Education: Ph.D. in composition, Princeton University, M.F.A. in composition, Princeton University; M.F.A. in electronic music and recording media, Mills College; A.B. in music, Dartmouth College. Research interests: Acoustic, electronic and mixed composition; experimental aesthetics; interactive technologies; installation; sound design; popular music; art & activism. More about Ted Coffey |
Scott DeVeaux, Associate Professor, Musicology, Director of Graduate Studies Office: OCH 208 Phone: (434) 924-6500 (O), (434) 977-7369 (H) E-mail: deveaux@virginia.edu or skd9r@virginia.edu Web: Scott DeVeaux's Web site Education: A.B. in music, Princeton, Ph.D. in music history, University of California, Berkeley Research interests: Jazz; American music; African-American studies; ethnomusicology (Africa); popular music. More about Scott DeVeaux  |
Bonnie Gordon (on leave Fall '07) Phone: (434) 982-2372 E-mail: bsg6v@virginia.edu Education: Brown University, A.B. Literature and Society, University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. in Music. Research interests: Early Modern Italy, Gender and Sexuality, History of Science, Monteverdi, Castrati. More about Bonnie Gordon |
Bruce Holsinger, Professor of English and Music, Musicology, Chair Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 10-11am, OCH 201 Email: bh9n@virginia.edu Phone: (434) 924-6503 Education: Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University; MA in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from University of Minnesota; BMusA in clarinet performance from University of Michigan Research interests: Bruce Holsinger specializes in musical and literary relations in the European Middle Ages, with particular interests in liturgical studies, the history of sexuality, and the premodern roots of modern critical thought More about Bruce Holsinger |
Michelle Kisliuk, Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology Office: OCH 204 Office Hours: Wednesday 1-2pm, OCH 204 Phone: (434) 982-2946 (O), (434) 823-1466 (H) E-mail: mk6k@virginia.edu Web: Michelle Kisliuk's Web site, Analyzing Music Education: Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University (1991). Research interests: Specializes in integrating performance theory and practice, cultural studies, experiential field research, and the poetics of ethnographic writing. Area specialites include African music: the forest people (BaAka) as well urban music and dance in the Central African Republic, and jam sessions at bluegrass festivals in the United States. More about Michelle Kisliuk |
Andrew Koch, Assistant Professor, Assistant Director of Bands Phone: (434) 982-5347 E-mail: akoch@virginia.edu Education: B.M. in Music Education from Western Michigan University, and Master of Music Education degree, with a trumpet performance emphasis, from the University of South Carolina in Columbia. More about Andrew Koch |
Fred Maus, Associate Professor, Music Theory (on leave Fall '07) Office: OCH 202 Office Hours: Monday 11am-12pm, OCH 202 Phone: (434) 924-6497 E-mail: fem2x@virginia.edu Education: Ph. D. in music theory, Princeton University. M. Litt. in Philosophy, Oxford University. Research interests: Theory and analysis, gender and sexuality, popular music, aesthetics, dramatic and narrative aspects of instrumental music. More about Fred Maus |
William Pease, Associate Professor, Director of Bands Office: OCH 214 Phone: (434) 982-5347 E-mail: pease@virginia.edu Education: M.M., James Madison University; D.M.A. (in progress) Micigan State More about William Pease |
Michael Puri, Assistant Professor, Music Theory (on leave Fall '07) Office: OCH 212 Office Hours: Friday 1-3pm, OCH 212 Phone: (434) 982-2390 E-mail: mjp3h@virginia.edu Education: Ph.D. and M.Phil. in music theory, Yale University; Lehr- and Konzertdiplom in piano performance, Music Academy of Basel (Switzerland); B.A. in Music and Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University. Research Interests: Theory and analysis, hermeneutics, Critical Theory, Wagner, Liszt, Ravel, late nineteenth-century French classical music. More about Michael Puri |
Joel Rubin, Assistant Professor, Director of Music Performance Office: OCH 207 Phone:(434) 924-6499 E-mail: jer2y@virginia.edu Education: Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from City University of London, BFA in Clarinet Performance from State University of New York, College at Purchase. Research Interests: Ornamentation, improvisation and modality; music and trauma; music and professionalism; music and immigration; music and diaspora; music and identity; music and religion; folk music revivals; musical hybridity; Jewish musical traditions (klezmer, hasidic, American Jewish popular music, Middle East and beyond); art and urban popular traditions of the Balkans, Turkey and the Middle East. More about Joel Rubin |
Judith Shatin, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Composer Office: OCH 203 Phone:(434) 924-6495 (O), (434) 293-7312 (H) E-mail: jsa@virginia.edu Web: Judith Shatin's Official Web site Web: Judith Shatin's U.Va. Website Education: Ph.D., Princeton University, M.M. The Juilliard School, A.B. Douglass College. Research interests: Composition and new technologies; psychology of music; music theory and criticism. More about Judith Shatin |
Michael Slon, Assistant Professor, Choral Director Office: OCH B013 Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 1-2pm OCH B013 Phone: (434) 924-6504 E-mail: ms9ec@virginia.edu Education: DM (in progress at IU School of Music), MM in conducting from IU School of Music, BA in music and English from Cornell University. Research interests: Choral, opera, and instrumental conducting; choral history, repertoire, and performance; Leonard Bernstein. More about Michael Slon |
Kate Tamarkin, Professor, Conducting Phone: (434) 924-6498 E-mail: tamarkin@virginia.edu Web: Kate Tamarkin's Web site Education: DMA from Peabody Conservatory of Music; Masters of Music from Northwestern University; Bachelors of Music Education from Chapman University (CA). Research Interests: Teaching of instrumental conducting, works combining chorus and orchestra More about Kate Tamarkin
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Paul Walker, Associate Professor, Early Music Office: OCH B013 Phone: (434) 924-3108 E-mail: pmw6q@virginia.edu Education: Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from the State University of New York at Buffalo, M.M in Organ Performance from the University of Kansas; Further study at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, Germany Research interests: Aspects of music before 1750, including extensive research in the early history of fugue and the music of J. S. Bach and his predecessors More about Paul Walker |
Richard Will, Associate Professor, Musicology Office: OCH 114B Phone: (434) 982-2396 Office Hours: Wednesday 1:30-3:30pm, OCH 207 E-mail: rw6w@virginia.edu Web: Richard Will's Web site Education: Ph.D., Cornell University, B.A., University of California at Santa Cruz. Research interests: Music history, 20th-Century American popular music, 17th and 18th Century music. More about Richard Will |
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Emeriti Faculty
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Donald Loach, Professor, Emeritus |
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Ernest Mead, Professor, Emeritus |
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Marita McClymonds, Professor, Emerita |
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Walter Ross, Professor, Emeritus |
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Milos Velimirovic, Professor, Emeritus (Deceased) |
Visiting Faculty
Nathan Currier, Visiting Faculty, Music Theory Office: OCH 202 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, TBA Phone: (434) 924-6881 E-mail: nkc8b@virginia.edu Education: DMA, MM Juilliard School (Composition); Diploma with First Prize, Royal Conservatory of Belgium (Composition); BM, Peabody Conservatory (Piano) Research interests: Composition; also Gaia Theory research (Earth Systems Science) More about Nathan Currier |
Heather Maxwell, Affiliated Scholar, Ethnomusicology Phone: (434) 825-2624 (C) E-mail: ham7f@virginia.edu Education: Ph.D. in Folklore/Ethnomusicology from Indiana University (2002). B.A. in Music and Anthropology from University of Michigan (1988). Research interests: African music and performance (General); vocal arts, singers, and communication in popular culture (Mali, Ivory Coast, Ghana); music and public health (Mali, South Africa); fieldwork methods and practice; African diaspora More about Heather Maxwell |
Performance Faculty
| PIANO/KEYBOARD Barolsky, Ruth Piano Gross, Kelly Piano Hallahan, Bob Jazz/Piano Moore, Barbara Piano Sablinsky, Content Piano Tung, Mimi Piano Walker, Paul Harpsichord |
PERCUSSION Davis, Kevin Afro-Cuban Percussion Fang, I-Jen Percussion Jospe, Robert Jazz Drumming Tripathi, Nitin Tabla |
| STRINGS Balija, Ayn Viola Colwell, David Violin Jortner, Iris Cello Sariti, David Violin Spaar, Peter Bass |
HARP Jellison, Anastasia Harp |
| WOODWINDS Cox, Alan Flute Decker, Jeff Sax/Jazz Studies Garlick, Nancy Clarinet Perry, Scott Oboe Roberts, Elizabeth Bassoon |
GUITAR, BANJO, MANDOLIN Frostic, Pete Mandolin Howard, Greg Chapman Stick Krakauer, Ben Banjo Rosensky, Mike Jazz/Classical Guitar |
| BRASS Kellner, Steve Trombone D'earth, John Trumpet Neebe, Paul Trumpet Zook, Ian Horn Slayton, Barry Euphonium/Tuba |
VOICE Balestrieri, Amanda Beasley, Pamela Najera, Edmund Nakasian, Stephanie Non-Classical Voice Owens, Chris Taylor, James Thompson, Dawn Jazz Vocals |
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Staff
| Marcy Day, Director of Promotions Phone: (434) 924-6492 E-Mail: mday@virginia.edu |
| Michael Idzior, Assistant Athletics Band Director Phone: (434) 243-5375 Email: mti9g@virginia.edu |
| Joel Jacobus, Production & Box Office Manager Phone: (434) 924-4485 E-Mail: oldcabell@virginia.edu |
| Lorrie L. Jean, Administrative Supervisor Phone: (434) 924-6491 E-Mail: llj6c@virginia.edu |
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David Knight, Marching Band Executive Assistant Phone: 982-3547 Email: davidknight@virginia.edu |
| Tina Knight, Assistant to the Chair and Academic Program Coordinator Phone: (434) 924-1435 E-Mail: |
| Bill Martin, Executive Director Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra Phone: (434) 924-6505 E-Mail: orchestra@virginia.edu |
| Granville Mullings, Receptionist and Administrative Assistant Phone: (434) 924-3052 E-Mail: glm3v@virginia.edu |
| David Topper, Technical Director, VCCM Phone: (434) 924-7355 E-Mail: topper@virginia.edu |
| Tricia Crawford, Human Resources, Fiscal, and Graduate Program Coordinator Phone: (434) 982-2071 E-Mail: |
| Affiliated Staff |
| Karen Pellon, Executive Director Tuesday Evening Concert Series Phone: (434) 244-9505 E-Mail: kpellon@virginia.edu |
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Graduate Students
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Note: The office phone for all graduate students is (434) 982-4548 unless otherwise noted. |
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