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 |
| Tamara
Balter (PhD) |
Jerusalem, Israel |
BA, M.A
Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 (MM) |
Grinnell, IA |
BA
Kenyon College |
Interests: History
of theory, Scarlatti |
| Michelle Clater (PhD) |
Harrisburg, PA |
BA
Clearwater Christian College
MA Pennsylvania State University |
Interests: Classical music, pedagogy, music used in religious contexts |
| Amy
Engelsdorfer (PhD) |
Lexington, KY |
BME,
MM, MA University of Kentucky |
Teaching at: Depauw
University -- Greencastle, IN |
| Sally Freeland (MM) |
Newburgh, IN |
BM, Indiana University |
Interests: Text-music relationships |
| 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 (MM) |
State
College, PA |
BM Penn
State University |
Interests: 19th-century
French song |
| Matthew Groves (PhD) |
St.
Louis, MO |
BA
Truman State University
MA
University of Iowa |
Interests: Cognition, semiotics, popular music |
| William Guerin (PhD) |
Waltham, MA |
BA
Dartmouth College
MM Indiana University |
Interests: Compositional strategies in post-functional tonality, the music of Britten,
twentieth-century opera, popular and electronic music and performance contexts. |
| Jonathan Guez (MM) |
Houston, TX |
BM Texas Tech University |
Interests: Schenkerian techniques |
| Alissa Guntren (PhD) |
Sioux
City, IA |
MM
University of Cincinnati
PD Indiana University |
|
| Melissa
Hoag (PhD) |
Bowling
Green, MO |
BM
Drake University
MM Indiana University |
Dissertation: |
| Christy Keele (MM) |
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 |
| Andreas Metz (PhD) |
Augsburg, Germany |
BM
McGill University
MM University of British Columbia |
Interests: Schenker, issues of harmonic syntax, history of theory |
| Garrett Michaelson (MM) |
San Rafael, CA |
BM Eastman School of Music |
Interests: 20th-century music including jazz and avant-garde
improvisation in particular |
| John Reef (PhD) |
Montgomery Village, MD |
BM University of Maryland
MM University of Maryland
MA UNC Chapel Hill |
Interests: narrative theory, theories of musical time,
theories of non-western musics and relationships between theory and
performance |
| Loren Serfass (PhD) |
Ames,
IA |
BM
Eastman School of Music
MM
Indiana University |
|
| Megan
Schindele(PhD) |
Atlanta, GA |
BM
Georgia State University
MM Indiana University |
Teaching at: Butler University (part-time) |
| Gabi Teodoru (MM) |
Romania |
BM Indiana University |
|
| 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" |
| 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 |
| Michael Vidmar-McEwen (PhD) |
Gaithersburg, MD |
BA
College of Wooster
MA Notre Dame |
Interests: Schenkerian analysis, music and text, musical meaning, Benjamin
Britten |
| Jeffrey Vollmer (PhD) |
Wilmington, DE |
BM Penn State University
MA Penn State University |
Interests: chromatic harmony, pitch-space, pedagogy &
transformational theory |
| Sarah Wangberg (MM) |
Moorhead, MN |
BA St. Olaf College
MM Colorado |
Interests: Theory pedagogy and theory as it
relates to performance |
| Brent
Yorgason (PhD) |
Plain
City, UT |
BM Utah
State University
MM Indiana University |
Interests: Rhythm and meter, expressive timing, minimalism, new music, music
technology, pedagogy, Schenker, machine imagery in music
Teaching at: University of Texas San Antonio |
| Grace
Yu (PhD) |
Hong
Kong |
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” |
For information
about graduates of the Ph.D. program please visit the department's Alumni Locator.