Current Students
Students in the Graduate Program in Music Theory at Indiana University
Name (Degree) |
Hometown |
Prior Education |
Other Information |
| Joerg Adler (PhD) | Gernsheim, Hessen Germany | BM Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium, Frankfurt an Main MM Indiana University |
Interests: Undecided (still exploring!) |
| Daniel Arthurs (PhD) | Garland, TX | BM University of Tulsa MM Indiana University |
Interests: Schenker, pedagogy, the Romantic period |
| Sara Bakker (PhD) | London, ON Canada | BA Eastern Michigan University MA University of Western Ontario |
Interests: 20th-century harmony and counterpoint, music of Bela Bartok |
| Nikolas Bauchat (PhD) | |||
| Tim Best (PhD) | Charlottesville, VA | BM New England Conservatory MM Indiana University |
Interests: Text/music relations in the 19th-century Lied, pitch relations in early 20th-century freely atonal music, semiotics, interpretive analysis |
| Matthew Boyer (PhD) | Corpus Christi, TX | BM Baylor University MM Indiana University |
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| Matthew Boyle (PhD) | BM University of Georgia MM Indiana University |
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| Pat Budelier (PhD) | Davenport, IA | BM St. Ambrose University MM Indiana University |
Interests: Post-tonal theory and analysis, musical form and transformation, texture, pedagogy, Carter Dissertation: "Harmony, Space, and Form in Four Post-2000 Works by Elliott Carter" Teaching at: Illinois Wesleyan University |
| Timothy Chenette (PhD) | Grinnell, IA |
BA Kenyon College |
Interests: History of theory, Scarlatti |
| Mark Chilla (PhD) | Alpharetta, GA | BM University of Georgia MM Indiana University |
Interests: German Lieder, American Popular Song, Schenkerian Analysis |
| Diego Cubero (MM) | |||
| Nicole DiPaolo (MM) | Northville, MI | BM University of Michigan | Interests: The use of composition in undergraduate pedagogy, Schenkerian Analysis of neo-tonal music, juvenilia of the great composers, music perception and cognition. |
| Amy Engelsdorfer (PhD) | Lexington, KY | BME, MM, MA University of Kentucky | Teaching at: Depauw University -- Greencastle, IN |
| Stanley Fink (MM) | |||
| Kyle Fyr (PhD) | Granger, IN | BS Purdue University MM San Francisco Conservatory MM Indiana University |
Interests: 20th-century harmony and counterpoint, American minimalism |
| Stephen Grazzini (PhD) | State College, PA |
BM Penn State University |
Interests: Thoroughbass, improvisation, the Italian baroque. |
| Matthew Groves (PhD) | St. Louis, MO | BA Truman State University MA University of Iowa |
Interests: Cognition, semiotics, popular music |
| William Guerin (PhD) | Waltham, MA | AB Dartmouth College MM Indiana University |
Interests: Musical meaning in twentieth-century opera, music semiotics, Benjamin Britten, electronic and computer music Dissertation title: "Stylistic Interaction in John Adams's Nixon in China: An Approach to a General Theory of Polystylism" |
| Alissa Guntren (PhD) | Sioux City, IA |
BM Boston University MM University of Cincinnati PD Indiana University |
Interests: Interpretive Analysis, Romanticism, Schenkerian Analysis, and Analysis and Performance |
| Jason Jedlicka (PhD) | Cleveland, OH | BM Ohio State University MM Indiana University |
Interests: Minimalism (especially Reich), Alkan, popular music, American music. |
| Christy Keele (PhD) | Grand Forks, ND |
BM University of Nebraska |
Interests: Schenker, the Romantic period, musical meaning and popular music |
| Min-Jung Koh (PhD) | Korea | BM, MM Indiana University | |
| Justin Lavacek (PhD) | Baldwin, NY | BM Loyola University MM Peabody Conservatory |
Interests: Bach, Chopin, musical meaning, counterpoint before 1750 |
| Michael McClimon (MM) | Greer, SC | BM Furman University |
Interests: Jazz, Schenkerian analysis, Post-WWII music |
| Andrew McIntyre (PhD) | Montpelier, VT | BA Emory University MM University of Massachusetts Amherst |
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| Andreas Metz (PhD) | Augsburg, Germany | BM McGill University MA University of British Columbia |
Interests: Brahms, Schoenberg, Adorno, Schenkerian analysis, pacing, history of theory Teaching at: Baldwin-Wallace College -- Berea, OH |
| Garrett Michaelsen (PhD) | San Rafael, CA |
BM Eastman School of Music |
Interests: 20th-century music including jazz and avant-garde improvisation in particular |
| Mitch Ohriner (PhD) | Knoxville, TN |
BM University of Colorado MM Indiana University |
Interests: Computational models of performance and expressive timing. |
| John Reef (PhD) | Montgomery Village, MD |
BM University of Maryland MM University of Maryland MA UNC Chapel Hill |
Interests: Schenkerian analysis, counterpoint, seventeenth-century music, pedagogy, issues of canon formation, diversity in music |
| Katrina Roush (PhD) | Wooster, OH |
BA Indiana Wesleyan University MM Michigan State University |
Interests: Schenkerian analysis, form, counterpoint, and pedagogy. |
| Loren Serfass (PhD) | Ames, IA | BM Eastman School of Music MM Indiana University |
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| Megan Schindele (PhD) | Atlanta, GA | BM Georgia State University MM Indiana University |
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| Paul Sherrill (PhD) | BA Yale University | Interests: Theorys of rhythm and meter, transformational theory, minimalism and other 20th century repertoires. | |
| Trina Thompson (PhD) | Walla Walla, WA | BA Walla Walla College MM Northern Illinois University |
Interests: Schenkerian analysis, pedagogy, text and music, cultural studies Dissertation Title: "The Rhetoric of Suggestion in Selected Vocal Works of Debussy: Musical Topic and Temporality" Teaching at: Andrews University (Berrien Springs, MI) |
| Melissa Thornton (PhD) | Toronto, ON Canada |
MA University of Toronto BMus University of Toronto |
Interests: Schenkerian analysis, film music, allusions and quotations, history of music theory pedagogy and compositional procedures |
| Ruth Umthun (MM) | Des Moines, IA | BM Northwestern College (IA) | Interests: Ethnomusicology, post-1900 music, Japanese language, spider solitaire |
| Michael Vidmar-McEwen (PhD) | Cleveland, OH | BA College of Wooster MA Notre Dame |
Interests: Schenkerian analysis, music and text, musical meaning, Benjamin Britten Teaching at: Chatham University (Pittsburgh, PA) |
| Jeffrey Vollmer (PhD) | Wilmington, DE |
BM Penn State University MA Penn State University |
Interests: chromatic harmony, pitch-space, pedagogy & transformational theory |
| Sarah Wangberg (PhD) | Moorhead, MN |
BA St. Olaf College |
Interests: Theory pedagogy and theory as it relates to performance |
| Joseph Williams (PhD) | |||
| Alvin Yu (MM) | Hong Kong, China |
BA University of Oregon BS University of Oregon MA University of Michigan |
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| Grace Yu (PhD) | Hong Kong, China | BA The Chinese University of Hong Kong MM Indiana University |
Interests: Relationships between music and other art media, music semiotics, analysis and performance, Liszt Dissertation Title: "A Semiotical Interpretation of Liszt's Piano Works in Light of their Extramusical Sources" Teaching at: The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts |
For information about graduates of the Ph.D. program please visit the department's Alumni Tracker.
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