Graduate Faculty

Salvatore Macchia, Professor and Chair of the Department of Music and Dance, B.M., Hartt College of Music, 1970; M.M., Yale, 1972; M.M.A., 1973; D.M.A., 1978.

Erinn Knyt, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, B.A., University of California at Davis, 2003; Ph.D., Stanford, 2010.

Daniel Albert, Lecturer, B.M., UMass Amherst, 2001; M.M., University of Michigan, 2005; Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2016,

Edward Arron, Assistant Professor, B.M., Julliard, 1998.

Brent Auerbach, Associate Professor, B.A., Harvard, 1997; M.M.; Eastman School of Music, 2000; Ph.D., 2005.

Eric Berlin, Professor, B.M., New England Conservatory, 1991.

John Bottomley, Senior Lecturer, B.M., Wisconsin at Madison, 1991; M.M., Manhattan School of Music, 1993; D.M.A., Ohio State, 2009.

Elizabeth Chang, Professor, B.A., Harvard, 1985; M.M. University of Massachusetts, 2011.

Fredric Cohen, Professor, B.M./B.M.Ed., Philadelphia Musical Academy, 1970.

Romie de Guise-Langlois, Assistant Professor, B.M., McGill, Montreal, 2004; M.M., Yale, 2007.

Cornelius du Toit, Assistant Professor, B.M., Pretoria, South Africa, 2006; M.M., Colorado at Boulder, 2010; D.M.A., 2014.

Thomas Giampietro, Senior Lecturer, B.M., Miami at Coral Gables, 1992; M.M., Northern Iowa, 2005.

Jamie-Rose Guarrine, Assistant Professor, B.M.E, Illinois Wesleyan, 2000; M.M., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002; D.M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Thomas Hannum, Senior Lecturer, B.S., West Chester, 1980; M.M., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1984.

Willie L. Hill, Professor, B.S., Grambling State, 1968; M.M., Colorado, 1972; Ph.D., 1987.

William Hite, Associate Professor, B.M., University of Kansas, 1982; M.M., Boston Conservatory, 1984.

Jeffrey Holmes, Professor, B.M., Eastman School of Music, 1977; M.M., 1979.

Jason Hooper, Senior Lecturer, B.M., Indiana at Bloomington, 2003; M.M., 2005; Ph.D., City University of New York, 2016.

Catherine Jensen-Hole, Senior Lecturer, Ph.D., University of North Texas, 2005; M.M., University of North Texas, 1995; B.M., Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts, 1988.

Gary S. Karpinski, Professor, B.M., Temple, 1979; M.M., 1980; Ph.D., City University of New York, 1991.

Ayano Kataoka, Assistant Professor, B.M., Tokyo National University, Japan, 1997; M.M., Peabody Conservatory, 2003; Artist Diploma, Yale School of Music, 2005.

Lisa Lehmberg, Associate Professor, B.M., Illinois, 1978; M.M., 1980; Ph.D., South Florida, 2008.

Kathryn Lockwood, Senior Lecturer, B.M., Queensland Conservatorium, Australia, 1989; M.M., Southern California, 1994.

Roberta M. Marvin, Professor, B.M., Boston Conservatory, 1975; M.A., Tufts, 1986; Ph.D., Brandeis, 1992.

Marjorie Melnick, Senior Lecturer, M.M. The Juilliard School, 1977; B.A., Wesleyan University, 1972.

Joshua Michal, Assistant Professor, B.M., Indiana at Bloomington, 2006; M.M., Northwestern, 2008; D.M.A., Ohio State, 2014.

Morihiko Nakahara, Assistant Professor, B.M., Andrews University, 1998; M.M., Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, 2000.

Stephen Paparo, Associate Professor, B.M., Ithaca College, 1996; M.M., Syracuse University, 1998, Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2011. 

Emiliano Ricciardi, Assistant Professor, Laurea in Lettere e Filosofia, University of Rome, Italy, 2004; Diploma, Conservatory of Rome, Italy, 2005; M.Phil., Cambridge, England, 2007; Ph.D., Stanford, 2013.

Marianna Ritchey, Assistant Professor, B.A., Lewis and Clark College, 1999; M.A., California at Los Angeles, 2008; Ph.D., 2011.

Felipe Salles, Associate Professor, B.M., Campinas, Brazil, 1994; M.M., New England Conservatory, 1998; Doc. Jazz, Manhattan School of Music, 2005.

Nadine Shank, Professor, B.M., Oberlin, 1976; M.M., Indiana, 1978.

Rémy Taghavi, Lecturer, B.M. University of Southern California, 2012; M.M., Juilliard, 2014; D.M.A, Stony Brook University, 2018.

Tony Thornton, Associate Professor, B.M., Westminster Choir College, 1990; M.M., Louisiana State, 1992; D.M.A., Arizona, 2008.

Fumi Tomita, Assistant Professor, B.M., McGill University, 1996; M.M. Manhattan School of Music, 2000; D.M.A., Eastman School of Music, 2015.

Gilles Vonsattel, Associate Professor, B.A., Columbia, 2002; M.M., Juilliard, 2005.

Matthew Westgate, Assistant Professor, B.M., Western Michigan, 2000; M.M., 2006; D.M.A., Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, 2009.

Christopher White, Assistant Professor, B.A., Oberlin Conservatory, 2005; M.A., Queens College, 2007; Ph.D., Yale, 2013.

Faculty Emeriti

Wayne Abercrombie, Professor Emeritus (2007).

Jeffrey Cox, Professor and Chair Emeritus (2016).

John Jenkins, Professor Emeritus (2013).

Laura Klock, Professor Emerita (2014).

Lynn Klock, Professor Emeritus (2014).

Ernest D. May, Professor Emeritus (2015).

Peggy Schwartz, Professor Emerita (2011).

David Sporny, Professor Emeritus (2008).

Michael Sussman, Professor Emeritus (2016).