Kyle Adams

Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York
Assistant Professor of Music Theory

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
1201 East Third Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7006

Office: Simon 325G
Phone: (812) 855-1859
Fax: (812) 855-4936

Kyle Adams holds a Ph.D. in music theory from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His dissertation explored chromatic music from the late sixteenth century through the early eighteenth century. He has studied theory and analysis with Carl Schachter, William Rothstein, and Ruth DeFord. In addition, he holds bachelor's and master's degrees in piano from the Mannes College of Music, where he won first prize in the Mannes College Concerto Competition. His piano teachers have included Josef Raieff, Vlado Perlemuter, and Harold Brown. He has taught courses in music theory, ear training, and keyboard skills in both the College and Extension Divisions at Mannes, as well as at Queens College and Hunter College. He has presented papers at the Music Theory Society of New York State and the Florida State Music Theory Forum, and at conferences in Germany and Belgium. He has also maintained an active career as an accompanist, working with the Boys Choir of Harlem, the voice studios of Theodor Uppman, Arthur Levy, and Antonia Lavanne, and trombonists David Taylor and Nitzan Har-Oz. Professor Adams' primary research involves music theory of the Renaissance and early Baroque. He is also interested in the relationship between Schenkerian analysis and performance, and the analysis of popular music.