Faculty
Our unparalleled faculty is the cornerstone of the educational experience in the School of Music. Our faculty consists of internationally recognized scholars, musicians, and teachers, who bring their real-world experience directly into the classroom, rehearsal hall, and studio. With some of the most prominent musical experts in the Twin Cities--many members of the Minnesota Orchestra or the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra--our collaborative and creative faculty guide students as they develop into scholars, teachers, composers, and performers.
200E Ferguson Hall
612-624-7060
warfield@umn.edu
Regular Faculty
Akosua Addo
Specialties
Elementary music methods; International music education; Play; World music; International teacher education; Arts Integration; African Music
Thomas Ashworth
Specialties
Euphonium; Trombone; Music technology; Jazz improvisation
Marissa Benedict
Specialties
Classical, Jazz and recording Instruction; Chamber Music Coaching and Leadership; Trumpet Performing (see website); Masterclasses and instruction; Collaborations with Faculty and colleagues (see website)
Matt Bribitzer-Stull
Specialties
Richard Strauss; music theory; German Romantic music traditions; french horn; Richard Wagner; theory pedagogy; nineteenth-century theory and analysis; musical form and tonal structure; musical associativity; chromatic harmony; queer theory and subjectivity
Sivan Cohen Elias
Specialties
Acoustical and Electroacoustic Music Composition; Improviser Performer with sound instruments and Electronics; Sound and multimedia Artist; Sound design software techniques including working with iZotope RX, and Ozone; Field and studio Recording techniques; Fixed media with any Digital Audio Workstation, including ProTools, Cubase, Reaper, Abelton Live, Logic Pro, Adobe Audition; Graphical programming with Max MSP and Jitter including MC and Gen; Classical and contemporary notation and orchestration techniques; Notation and graphical software include Finale, Sibelius, and Adobe Illustrator; Video editing with Adobe Premiere Pro, and Final Cut
Gabriela Currie
Specialties
Global perspectives: pre-modern music history; Medieval music theory; Music iconography; Early ethnographic accounts of musical traditions in Eurasia and Africa; Intersections between musical and scientific thought in the early- and pre-modern eras; Music and culture of the Balkan Penninsula, Western and Central Asia
David Damschroder
Specialties
Fortepiano performance and repertoire; Theories of harmony (18th – 21st centuries); Music of the nineteenth century; Analysis of tonal music (Schenkerian emphasis)
Immanuel Davis
Specialties
Contemporary 20th-century flute and chamber repertoire; Classical; Flute; Specialized breathing techniques in flute performance
Sumanth Gopinath
Specialties
Sound studies; Popular music; Musical hermeneutics; Music and politics; Avant-garde and experimental musics; Music after WWII; Music and globalization
Keitha Lucas Hamann
Specialties
rural music education; arts assessment; history of music education; music teacher development; sight singing; middle level music education; choral music education
Kelley Harness
Specialties
Music and theater in Italian convents; 17th-century Italian opera; Musical intermedi in 16th-century spoken plays; Handel operas; African and Latin American music; 16th- and 17th-century musical patronage; Women and political legitimacy in early 17th-century Florence; Political imagery in Renaissance arts
Timothy Lovelace
Specialties
Collaborative piano; Chamber music
Alex Lubet
Specialties
Music composition; Disability Studies, Bioethics, Jewish & American Studies; Performance; Popular culture; music, theatre, film
Guerino Mazzola
Specialties
Classical symbolic thinking in music and performance theory; Transformational theory using category theory; Gestures in music; Software for musical analysis, composition, and performance; Free jazz
Betsy McCann
Specialties
Contemporary Music, Concert Band, Leadership, Group Culture, Marching Band
Matthew Mehaffey
Specialties
Conducting; Choral music and performance; Choral music pedagogy; Choral music instruction
Peter Mercer-Taylor
Specialties
Felix Mendelssohn; History of popular American music and culture; 19th century Romantic German music; Music history 1750 - 1900; American hymnology
Fernando Meza
Specialties
Percussion literature, techniques, and pedagogy; Percussion; Orchestral and contemporary music; North Indian tabla drums; The folkloric marimba traditions of Costa Rica; Music technology as applied to education
Kyle Motl
Specialties
Double Bass; Improvisation; Contemporary Music; Creative Music; Jazz
Maja Radovanlija
Specialties
early music, conteporary and improvised music
Edward Todd Schwartzberg
Specialties
Music therapy with Autism Spectrum Disorder and related intellectual disabilities; Music therapy in Early Childhood and Special Education
Michael Silverman
Specialties
Illness management and recovery; Evidence-based music therapy; Music therapy in adult mental health; Music therapy in addiction
Mark Russell Smith
Dean Sorenson
Specialties
Jazz; Music composition; Trombone
Emily Threinen
Specialties
Conducting Pedagogy, Wind Band; Concert Art Music, Wind Band emphasis
David Walsh
Specialties
Managerial abilities; Administration; Opera history; 20th-century contemporary operatic literature and design
Affiliate Faculty
Michael Gallope
Specialties
Music and Sound Studies; Philosophy and Intellectual History; Music of the African Diaspora; Cultural History and Ethnography; Global Modernisms
Samantha Laumann
Specialties
Vocal Pedagogy and Health; Bel Canto/Classical/Musical Theatre/Mix and Belt Technique; Accompanist; Composition; Musical Theatre Repertoire; Music Directing; Orchestration; Conducting
Brian McCullough
