Miguel A. Roig-Francolí
Biographical Note

Miguel A. Roig-Francolí (Ph.D., Music Theory, Indiana University, 1990; Título Superior de Composición, Madrid Royal Superior Conservatory, 1988; M.M., Composition, Indiana University, 1985; Título Profesional de Piano, Professional Conservatory of the Balearic Islands [Majorca, Spain], 1982) was born in Ibiza (Spain) in 1953. He studied composition in Madrid with Miguel A. Coria, and at Indiana University with Juan Orrego-Salas, and is currently Professor of Music Theory at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati. Before 2000, Roig-Francolí taught at the Eastman School of Music, Northern Illinois University, and Ithaca College. His research interests include Renaissance compositional theory and practice, the music of Ligeti, large-scale coherence in post-tonal music, and the pedagogy of music theory.

Roig-Francolí is the author of Harmony in Context (McGraw-Hill, 2003), and Understanding Post-Tonal Music (McGraw-Hill, 2007). His articles and reviews have appeared in Music Theory Spectrum, Journal of Music Theory, Early Music, Revista de musicología (Spain), Journal of Musicological Research, College Music Symposium, Analisi: Rivista de teoria e pedagogia musicale (Italy), Indiana Theory Review, MLA Notes, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and the Diccionario de la música española e hispanoamericana. He has presented papers at numerous conferences, including annual meetings of the Society for Music Theory, American Musicological Society, and Music Theory Midwest. He is a member of an international study group on Spanish music affiliated with the Sorbonne University (Paris), and in 1997 he was appointed artistic advisor for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Manuel de Falla festival, and in 1998 he was invited to teach at a summer course of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (El Escorial, 1998).

Roig-Francolí’s compositions have been widely performed in Spain, England, Germany, Mexico, and the United States. His orchestral works have been performed by the National Orchestra and Chorus of Spain, the Orchestra of Spanish Radio-TV, the Orchestra of the City of Barcelona, the Municipal Orchestra of Valencia, the Madrid Symphony Orchestra with the National Ballet of Spain, the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the City of Palma (Majorca), the Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Islands, the Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the City of Ibiza, and the CCM Philharmonia (Cincinnati). He has received commissions from the National Orchestra and Chorus of Spain, the Spanish National Radio, and the Fundación Juan March. His compositions are published by EMEC, Piles, and Fundación Juan March (Madrid).

Among his many honors are first prize at the National Composition Competition of the Spanish Jeunesses Musicales (1981) and second prize at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers (Paris, 1982), both for Five Pieces for Orchestra; the Dean’s Dissertation Prize, Indiana University (1991); the Dana Research Fellow Award, Ithaca College (1992); grants from the US-Spain Joint Committee for Cultural and Educational Affairs, Spanish Ministry of Culture, Ithaca College, and Northern Illinois University; and the Medal of Honor from the Superior Conservatory of Music of the Balearic Islands (2004), and the University of Cincinnati’s A.B. "Dolly" Cohen Award for Excellence in Teaching (2007).