After eight years of exemplary service, Professor Kyle Adams has stepped down as chair of the Department of Music Theory. Earlier this year, Adams Under his guidance, the department navigated numerous challenges, most notably the complex shift to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The department will not soon forget Adams’s commitment to student success and academic innovation.
Professor Noriko Manabe has been appointed as the new chair. Manabe joined the faculty of music theory in Fall 2024. She is also affiliated faculty for IU’s Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department, East Asian Languages and Cultures Department, East Asian Studies Center, Cultural Studies Program, and the Center for Research on Race & Ethnicity in Society. She previously served on the standing faculty in music theory at Temple University and in music at Princeton University. She holds a Ph.D. with a double concentration in ethnomusicology and music theory from CUNY Graduate Center. Before academia, she worked in the financial industry and was an Institutional Investor-ranked analyst in the internet and videogames industries.
In addition to the chair, Roman Ivanovitch has been appointed associate chair. Ivanovitch, who earned his doctorate from Yale University, is associate professor of music theory and has taught at the Jacobs School of Music since 2004. His general research concerns issues of form, style, and aesthetics in the long eighteenth century, particularly with respect to Classical-era variation and sonata form. His principal focus is the music of Mozart, on which he has published articles in Music Theory Spectrum, Journal of Music Theory, and Music Analysis. In 2012, he won the Marjorie Weston Emerson Award from the Mozart Society of America for his essay on Mozart’s retransitions.
To assist Manabe and Ivanovitch in streamlining communications related to their new appointments, the department has created a dedicated email, mtchair@iu.edu. Both chairs remain accessible through their individual email addresses for specific inquiries regarding research, teaching, and other non-chair service.
The department extends its deepest gratitude to Professor Adams for his years of leadership, dedication, and resilience, and the new leadership team looks forward to continuing the department’s tradition of excellence.
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