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Theory: Faculty Biographies
David Carson Berry
Steven J. Cahn
Catherine Losada
Samuel Ng
Miguel A. Roig-Francolí
Robert Zierolf
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David Carson Berry, Assistant Professor, is the author of nearly 20 articles and reviews, published or forthcoming in the Journal of Music Theory, Journal of Musicology, 19th-Century Music, Current Musicology, Intégral, Indiana Theory Review, and other peer-reviewed journals. His book, A Topical Guide to Schenkerian Literature: An Annotated Bibliography with Indices (Pendragon, 2004), is the largest reference work devoted to writings about Heinrich Schenker and his approach to analysis. Other book projects are in the works, including one on the music of Cole Porter, with co-author Allen Forte.
Dr. Berry’s research interests are wide-ranging, and include American popular music of the 1920s-60s, including a focus on Irving Berlin and Jimmy Van Heusen; the theory and aesthetics of music of the mid-eighteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, including a focus on Igor Stravinsky; and Schenkerian theory and its reception history in the U.S. On these and other topics, he has delivered nearly 30 different papers at various academic venues in the U.S. and Europe.
He has served as editor of Theory and Practice, the journal of the Music Theory Society of New York State, for which he inaugurated a forum to encourage translations of significant articles and brief monographs into English; and as reviews editor of the Journal of Music Theory. He is also the 2006 recipient of the Society for Music Theory’s “Emerging Scholar Award” for his article “The Meaning(s) of ‘Without’: An Exploration of Liszt’s Bagatelle ohne Tonart.”
Ph.D., Yale University; CCM since 2003.
For more information on Dr. Berry, see his personal webpage.
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Steven J. Cahn, Associate Professor, is a music theorist and pianist whose research interests include Schoenberg studies, the history of music theory, aesthetics and historiography, psychology, and reconciling issues in performance and analysis through computer imaging. His recent publications include contributions to Schoenberg and Words (New York, 2000), Schoenberg: Interpretationen Seiner Werke (Vienna, 2002), Ostinato Rigore (Paris, 2002), The Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Centre (Vienna, 2002 & 2003), and The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg (forthcoming). Dr. Cahn has recently delivered papers at the Library of Congress (Washington, DC), the Getty Center (Los Angeles), the National Institutes of Health (Washington, DC), the Arnold Schönberg Centre (Vienna), the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), as well as at annual meetings of the Society for Music Theory, American Musicological Society, Music Theory Midwest, and the Music Theory Society of New York State. He has held grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and has conducts ongoing research at the National Institutes of Health.
Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook; CCM since 1997.
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Catherine Losada, Assistant Professor, is a music theorist whose research interests include post-tonal music, the music of Pierre Boulez, advanced serial techniques, transformational theory, the musical collage, and music written after 1950. She has articles published or forthcoming in Music Theory Online, Music Theory Spectrum, Music Analysis, Journal of Mathematics and Music, and Quaderni di Matematica. As a winner of a University Research Council Grant and a University Research Council Faculty Summer Fellowship, she has conducted research on the music of Boulez at the Paul Sacher foundation in Basel, Switzerland. She has delivered papers at the First International Conference of the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music (Berlin, Germany), the Fourth Biennial International Conference on Twentieth Century Music, at the annual meetings of the Society for Music Theory (Seattle, 2004, Cambridge, 2005 and Los Angeles, 2006), the Music Theory Society of New York State, the New England Conference of Music Theorists, Music Theory Midwest, the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, the Texas Society for Music Theory, the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory and Music Theory Southeast. She has served on the program committees for SMT, MTSNYS and the Texas Society for Music Theory. In 1995 she founded the I-VII International Music Festival and School in Bogotá, Colombia, which she directed until 2001.
Ph.D. City University of New York Graduate Center, 2004; CCM since 2004.
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Samuel Ng, Assistant Professor, is a music theorist and pianist whose research interests include Brahms studies, phrase rhythm, music perception, and the relationship between analysis and performance. His recent publications include an article on metric dissonance in Brahms’s Cello Sonata in F major, op. 99 (Theory and Practice, 2006), a review-essay on Peter Smith’s Expressive Forms in Brahms’s Instrumental Music (Music Theory Online, 2007), and program notes for Yung-Chiao Wei’s recording of Brahms’s Cello Sonata in E minor, op. 38 (Centaur CRC 2921, 2008). He has presented papers at meetings of Society for Music Theory, Music Theory Society of New York State, Music Theory Southeast, the Society of Music Perception and Cognition, and has chaired the program committee for the South Central Society of Music Theory. Recent awards include the Teacher Appreciation Award from Louisiana State University, the Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award from MTSNYS, and the Alfred Mann Dissertation Award from the Eastman School of Music. Dr. Ng has taught previously at Louisiana State University.
Ph.D. Eastman School of Music; CCM since 2008.
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Miguel A. Roig-Francolí, Professor, is a music theorist and composer whose research interests include Renaissance instrumental music and history of theory, twentieth-century music, and music theory pedagogy. He is the author of Harmony in Context (McGraw-Hill, 2003) and Understanding Post-Tonal Music (McGraw-Hill, 2007). His numerous articles and reviews have been published in Music Theory Spectrum, Journal of Music Theory, Early Music, Revista de Musicología, Notes, Indiana Theory Review, Journal of Musicological Research, Analisi: Rivista de Teoria e Pedagogia Musicale, New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and College Music Symposium. His compositions have been performed throughout the world including Spain, England, Germany, Mexico, and the U.S., and he has held commissions from the National Orchestra and Chorus of Spain, Spanish National Radio, and Fundación Juan March. Recent distinctions include 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). Dr. Roig-Francolí has taught previously at the Eastman School of Music.
Ph.D. Indiana University; CCM since 2000.
For more information on Dr. Roig-Francolí, see his personal webpage.
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Robert Zierolf, Professor, is also Associate University Dean of the UC Graduate School. He has taught graduate and undergraduate music theory, analysis, and history at the College-Conservatory of Music since 1976, and supervised more than 100 graduate assistants who now hold academic appointments at colleges, universities, and conservatories in the United States and abroad; others are music editors, librarians, and composers. His thesis and dissertation advisees publish in leading journals and hold offices in major professional organizations. In addition, Professor Zierolf co-founded and co-directs Study Abroad in Italy, and has given invited lectures at institutions in the United States and Asia.
Professor Zierolf’s work appears in Korean and American journals and books, most recently in the Journal of the Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society. His papers have been delivered on national and international musicology and analysis conferences in the United States (Society for Music Theory), Australia (International Musicological Society), Europe (European Music Analysis Conference), and Asia (Seoul National University New Music Series), and he is a pre-publication reviewer for several publishers. He is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Musical Arts in Africa. Three ArtsLink grants have funded his research, and he has hosted a Fulbright Scholar from the Moscow Conservatory. Professor Zierolf was a reader for the Graduate Record Examination (music subject test), and he is a consultant to the Department of Education as well as the law firm Ulmer and Berne. His performance activities include appointment to the music staff of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and concerts, tours and recordings with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, and the Louisville Symphony. As contractor and personnel manager for the Cincinnati Ballet Company Orchestra and others, his ensembles performed and toured in the United States and the Caribbean.
Ph.D., CCM; CCM since 1975.
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