Emily Barbosa is a PhD Candidate in Music Theory who’s writing her dissertation on Du Fay’s fifteenth-century counterpoint. After completing a BMus in Music Education and Music Theory at Wilfrid Laurier University, Emily and her very cute one-eyed cat Charlie moved from her hometown in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada to Bloomington, where Emily’s continued studying music theory and history in the theory MM and PhD programs, and Charlie’s mostly been getting into trouble. Currently, Emily also teaches a couple music theory classes for non-majors at Jacobs and serves as a co-editor of Indiana Theory Review. While she’s especially fond of contrapuntal traditions, Emily’s other musical and research interests include tonal music analysis; teaching music analysis, history, and theory; Western folk music traditions; history of theory; and music visualization. A random fact about Emily: even though she practices a lot, she can’t pronounce the word “accompanist” correctly, which she says is, “not great considering I play piano…”
Jack Bussert (MM)
From: Bixby, Oklahoma
Education: BM, BME University of Tulsa
Interests: acoustic resonance, instrumentation, monody, pedagogy, composition, performance, and analysis
Devin Chaloux (PhD)
From: Bedford, New Hampshire
Education: BM University of Connecticut; MM University of Cincinnati
Interests: transformational theory, corpus studies, Edvard Grieg, 19th- and early 20th-century American composers, Renaissance modal theory and analysis
Dissertation: “Tonal Space in the Music of Tomás Luis de Victoria: A Case Study for Modern Analysis of Early Music”
Peter Cho (PhD)
Education: MM Indiana University
Christa Cole is a Ph.D. candidate from Boise, Idaho and is currently working on her dissertation on performative effort in the music of British twelve-tone composer Elisabeth Lutyens. This project combines her interests of twentieth-century music, performance and analysis, and gesture and instrumental spaces. Cole holds a BM in Violin Performance from Oberlin Conservatory and continues to actively perform in various solo and ensemble capacities. Outside of school, she enjoys rock climbing, cooking Bon Appetit recipes, and going on walks.
Thomas Cooke (PhD)
From: Kings Mountain, North Carolina
Education: BM Furman University; MM Indiana University
Interests: music cognition, neo-tonal music, microtonal music
Mítia D’Acol is a third-year PhD student in Music Theory from Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. Mítia completed a BA in Music Education and MM in Musicology at the University of São Paulo before coming to IU, where he completed a MM in Music Theory before starting his doctoral studies. Some of his interests include embodied cognition, schema theory, and the effect of dance on musical emotion—focusing mainly on eighteenth-century music. Outside of school, he enjoys spending time with his partner, two cats, and baking sourdough bread and pizza.
Nicole DiPaolo (PhD)
From: Northville, Michigan
Education: BM University of Michigan; MM Indiana University
Interests: the use of composition in undergraduate pedagogy, Schenkerian analysis of neo-tonal music, juvenilia of the great composers, music perception and cognition, form and phrase structure
Dissertation: “Approaches to Selected Harmonic Patterns in Early Partimenti and Their Influence on Handel”
Loida (Lois) Garza is a PhD student in Music Theory from Houston, TX. Before starting her doctoral work at IU, Loida completed a master’s in music theory at Texas State University and a bachelor’s in music theory from the University of Texas at Arlington. Some of her research interests include Latin American music, film music, Beethoven, music perception and cognition, formal analysis, and music and disability studies. Outside of music, Loida enjoys crocheting, hiking with her husband, and traveling with their pets.
Daniel Gerth (MM)
Joey Grunkemeyer is a first-year PhD student in Music Theory from Canton, Georgia. Joey completed a BA in Music Theory at Kennesaw State University before coming to IU. His primary research interest is narrative ambiguity in the music of Brahms. Other research interests include rhythm and meter in Brahms, musical hermeneutics, musical narrative, and the music of 20th-century Russian composers. Non-theory interests include hiking, playing cello, playing chamber music, and spending time with his dog, Lily. Joey has enjoyed exploring the IU campus, the various hiking trails around Bloomington, and all of the great restaurants. He is very excited to be here!
Alissa Guntren (PhD)
John Heilig (PhD)
From: Cooper City, Florida
Education: BM Florida State University; MM Indiana University
Interests: saxophone repertoire, minimalism, text setting
Madeleine Howey (PhD)
From: Watertown, South Dakota
Education: BA Concordia College (MN); MM Indiana University
Interests: post-tonal theory, performance and analysis, percussion, text setting
Stephen Komer (PhD)
From: Chesterfield, Michigan
Education: BM Oakland University; MM Indiana University
Interests: Renaissance music, Schenkerian analysis, analysis of Baroque music
Dissertation: “Applications of Modal Theory to the Analysis of Josquin’s Liturgical Polyphony”
Teaching at DePauw University
Sarah Mahnken Komer (PhD)
From: Schleswig, Iowa
Education: BA Concordia University (NE); MM University of Nebraska
Interests: Shostakovich, scale theory, modes, pitch centricity
Stephen McFall (PhD)
From: Aiken, South Carolina
Education: BM Winthrop University; MM Indiana University
Interests: perception and cognition, 20th- and 21st-century music, minimalism, Nordic music
Juan Mesa (PhD)
From: Puerto Montt, Chile
Education: BM Western Connecticut State U; MM Indiana University
Interests: Schenkerian analysis, modes of analysis of late baroque music (especially J. S. Bach), temporality in music, music and meaning, music theory pedagogy
Dissertation: “Binary Principles in Bach’s Concerto Ritornelli”
Sam Mullooly (MM)
From: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Education: BM Illinois Wesleyan University
Interests: musical taste, music philosophy, music criticism, structural analysis, Renaissance polyphony, Romantic symphonies & song cycles, 1960s-1970s rock, 21st century popular music
Jack Nighan is pursuing the MM in music theory and the MLS in library science. Originally from Glastonbury, Conn., Jack graduated magna cum laude from the University of Connecticut with a BM in music theory and a BA in music history, where he was principal oboist of the wind ensemble and symphony orchestra. A lover of modern music, Jack has had the privilege of performing in premieres of works by many composers including Joseph Schwantner, Miho Sasaki, and Margaret Bonds, and writing an undergraduate thesis titled “Interval-Class Pairing Models in Lutosławski’s Epitaph.” Jack’s research interests include post-tonal theory, twentieth-century harmony, and music theory pedagogy.
David Orvek is a third-year PhD student in Music Theory from Saint David Arizona. Before coming to IU, David completed a BS in Music Theory at Southern Adventist University and an MA in Music Theory at The Ohio State University. David’s research interests are always changing. Currently, he is interested in chromaticism in seventeenth-century music, twentieth-century British music, and aural skills pedagogy. He has also done work with transformational theory and corpus studies. When he has time outside of school, David enjoys reading, abstract painting, and playing classical guitar.
Despoina Panagiotidou (PhD)
From: Drama, Greece
Education: BA University of Macedonia; MM Indiana University
Interests: 20th-century Greek music, sonata theory, music perception and cognition
Jinny Park (PhD)
From: Tallahassee, Florida
Education: BM Florida State University; MM Indiana University
Interests: from Renaissance viol consort music to 21st-century music
Dissertation: “Diatonic Chord Loops in Post-Millennial Pop Harmony”
Calvin Peck (PhD)
From: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Education: BM Eastman School of Music; MM Indiana University
Interests: philosophical approaches to musical analysis, music theory pedagogy
Dissertation: “‘Les progrès de l’art’ and Music-Theoretical Values in France during the Revolution and First Empire”
Anna Peloso (PhD)
From: Simi Valley, California
Education: BM, MM California State University Northridge; MM Indiana University
Interests: twentieth-century music, music theory pedagogy
Connor Reinman (MM)
Lev Roshal (MM/MM)
Alex Shannon (PhD)
From: Little Rock, Arkansas
Education: MM University of Missouri-Kansas City; BA/BS Centenary College of Louisiana
Interests: mathematics of music analysis, late 19th-/early 20th-century chromaticism, text/music relations, vocal music of Richard Strauss
Emily Truell is a PhD student in Music Theory from Elizabethton, Tennessee. Her research interests include intersections between musical performance and theory, form and temporality in the eighteenth century, and, secondarily, issues of classroom pedagogy and higher education. Before her doctoral work, Emily completed a master’s in music theory at the IU Jacobs School of Music with outside specialization in historical performance. She also holds bachelor’s degrees in viola performance and music theory from Furman University, as well as additional certification from the Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy in Italian cultural studies. Aside from listening to, thinking about, and performing music, she is happiest with her husband Justin, reading books on parenting and raising their son Maxwell in Bloomington, Indiana.
Matthew Voglewede (PhD)
From: Rockville, MD
Education: BS University of Maryland; MA University of Oregon
Interests: music theory pedagogy, music perception and cognition, music informatics
Wade Voris (MM)
From: Springfield, MO
Education: BM Belmont University;
Interests: classical form, music during the late Romantic period, musical aesthetics, and Anton Bruckner’s symphonies
Samantha (Sam) Waddell (PhD)
Hometown: Evansville, Indiana
Education: BM University of Evansville; MM Michigan State University
Interests: rhythm and meter, pop music, music cognition & perception, music theory pedagogy
Lizhou Wang (MM)
From: Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, China
Education: BA Shanghai University; MA Shanghai University
Interests: classical forms; relations between musical structure and poetic expression in the romantic era; historical aspects of music theory; theory of Chinese music
Kelvin M. Wu (MM/MM)
From:
Education: BA University of Notre Dame in Music
Interests: instrumental music of Brahms, Beethoven, Bach, their related composers, 19th century music from the German speaking realms, as well as Schenkerian Analysis
Abigail York (PhD)
From: Kansas City, MO
Education: BM University of Missouri–Kansas City
Interests: pedagogy, rhythm and meter, hermeneutical approaches, literary criticism, musical meaning