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., California at Davis, 2003; Ph.D., Stanford, 2010.

Daniel Albert, Assistant Professor, B.M., UMass Amherst, 2001; M.M., 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 II, 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. 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., Wisconsin-Madison, 2002; D.M.A., Wisconsin-Madison.

William Hite, Professor, B.M., 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 New York, 2016.

Catherine Jensen-Hole, Senior Lecturer II, Ph.D., North Texas, 2005; M.M., 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 New York, 1991.

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

Lisa Lehmberg, 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.

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

Joshua Michal, Associate 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, Rome, Italy, 2004; Diploma, Conservatory of Rome, Italy, 2005; M.Phil., Cambridge, England, 2007; Ph.D., Stanford, 2013.

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

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

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

Tony Thornton, 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, Professor, B.A., Columbia, 2002; M.M., Juilliard, 2005.

Matthew Westgate, Associate 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).