Theory: Faculty Biographies

David Carson Berry
Steven J. Cahn
J. Wesley Flinn
Catherine Losada
Miguel A. Roig-Francolí
Robert Zierolf 

		David Carson Berry, Assistant Professor, is the author of 20 articles and reviews, published or forthcoming in such journals as the Journal of Musicology, 19th-Century Music, Current Musicology, Intégral, and Indiana Theory Review. He is also the author of A Topical Guide to Schenkerian Literature: An Annotated Bibliography with Indices (Pendragon, 2004), and is at work on a forthcoming book, Planning Chance: Musical Dice Games in Concept and Composition. He is also editing a Festschrift for Allen Forte, in commemoration of his eightieth birthday. Dr. Berry's research interests are wide-ranging, and include Schenkerian theory and its reception history; the theory and aesthetics of music of the mid-eighteenth through mid-twentieth centuries (including Stravinsky studies); and American popular music, ca. 1920s-60s. On these and other topics, he has delivered nearly 30 different papers at conferences and other professional meetings. He is a past editor (2003, 2004) 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. He is also a past reviews editor of the Journal of Music Theory. In November 2006 he received the "Emerging Scholar Award" from the Society of Music Theory. Ph.D., Yale University; CCM since 2003. For more information on Dr. Berry, see his personal webpage.
		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.
		J. Wesley Flinn, Visiting Instructor, is a music theorist and composer whose research interests include quotation in music, wind band music, popular music and postmodernism. He has presented on alternate constructions of tonality in Bernstein's Chichester Psalms at Music Theory Midwest, and is currently preparing presentations and papers on Frank Zappa and an ecological model of postmodernism in music. In addition, he is writing a book on the life and music of Clifton Williams. Prior to CCM, Prof. Flinn held positions at Northern Kentucky University and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. M.M., University of Cincinnati; CCM since 2007.
		Catherine Losada, Assistant Professor, is a music theorist whose research interests include post-tonal music, transformational theory, the musical collage, and music written after 1950. As a winner of a University Research Grant, she conducted research on the music of Boulez at the Paul Sacher foundation in Basel, Switzerland in the summer of 2004. She has delivered papers at the fourth Biennial International Conference on Twentieth Century Music, at the annual meetings of the Society for Music Theory, 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. Ph.D. City University of New York Graduate Center, 2004; CCM since 2004.
		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.
		Robert Zierolf, Professor, is also Associate University Dean of the UC Graduate School. His research interests focus on issues in twentieth-century music and music in society. He is a regular interview and program participant for NPR stations, and a reader for the GRE in music (1991-present). He is the former editor for the World Library of Sacred Music, and his musical commentary appears frequently in program notes for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He has presented papers at numerous national and international societies of scholars and at invited lectures. Ph.D., CCM; CCM since 1975.