The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University

Kip Wile, joined the Music Theory faculty of the Peabody Conservatory in Fall 2002.  He was educated at Clark University (B.A. in Music, summa cum laude, with Honors in Music Theory, 1983) and the University of Chicago (M.A., Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Music, 1990 and 1995), where he studied music theory with Relly Raffman, Richard Cohn, Robert Morgan, and Lawrence Zbikowski; musicology with Gerald Castonguay, Howard Mayer Brown, Anne Walters Robertson, Ellen Harris, Philip Gossett, and Charles Rosen; piano with Jacques Linder and Rita LaPlante; and voice with Susan Fisher Clickner and Bruce Tammen.

Dr. Wile was a recipient of the M. Giles Whiting dissertation fellowship and has lectured on a wide variety of theory and history-related subjects. He has delivered papers at national meetings of the Society for Music Theory, as well as at regional societies such as the New England Conference of Music Theorists and Music Theory Midwest.  A specialist in the music of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russia and France, his doctoral dissertation and related publications present a critical reappraisal of the concepts of centricity and pitch collection in the music of early twentieth-century "neotonal" composers such as Debussy, Stravinsky, Ravel, Scriabin and Bartók.

Dr. Wile was Local Arrangements Chair for the 1998 meeting of the Texas Society for Music Theory, was a member of the TSMT Executive Board from 1998-2001, and sat on the Program Committee for the 2002 conference of that society. He has been a member of the Music Theory Society of the Mid Atlantic since its inception in 2003, organized the by-laws of that society, managed its web site from 2005-07, served on the Program Committee for the 2009 conference, and was elected to the Executive Board for 2009-2011.

Prior to coming to Peabody, Dr. Wile was Coordinator of Music Theory, Composition and Music History and Director of the Computer-Assisted Instruction Laboratory at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. He received tenure at that institution in 2001.  He recently completed two terms as Chair of the Theory Department at Peabody, serving from 2005 to 2009.

Dr. Wile has conducted and performed in a variety of early music and contemporary ensembles, arranged and performed jazz, and led a series of recorder choirs for students at all levels.  In Texas, he also founded a popular music workshop in coordination with the Theory/Composition area's musicianship sequence.

Dr. Wile is listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers.