Faculty
The Faculty of the Department of Music Theory comprises thirteen full-time professors (including two dedicated to Keyboard Studies and two dedicated to Ear-Training) who hold degrees from, among other schools, the Eastman, Hartt and Manhattan Schools of Music, the Peabody and Moscow Conservatories, Duke, Harvard and Princeton Universities, and the Universities of Chicago, Maryland, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
These faculty members are active members of the music-making community, many of whom are active as composers and performers in addition to pursuing their scholarship. They have presented papers at national and international conferences of organizations such as the Society for Music Theory and the American Musicological Society, and have published through the Oxford University Press, Schirmer Music Books, and many other publishers and journals.
Please see the links below for more information about the current activities of these faculty members.
- Clinton Adams, Coordinator of Ear Training
- Courtney Orlando
- Vern Falby
- Joel Puckett
- Patricia Graham, Coordinator of Keyboard Studies
- David Smooke, Chair, Department of Music Theory
- Mark Janello
- Elam Sprenkle
- Ken Johansen
- Stephen Stone
- Ildar Khannanov
- Kip Wile
- Sharon Levy
Adjunct Faculty
- Judah Adashi
- Thomas Benjamin
- John E. Bower
- Faye Chiao
- John Crouch
- Travis Hardaway
- Jolie Lin
Graduate Teaching Fellows
Three of our Masters in Music Theory Pedagogy students: Joshua Bornfield, Joseph Kneer, and John Craven, are assisting Music Theory 1 (Intensive) as Graduate Teaching Fellows, teaching sections of the class under the supervision of Kip Wile. Lillian Green will assist in Ear Training 1 (Intensive) under the supervision of Courtney Orlando.
Peabody at Homewood
On the Homewood campus, Faye Chiao will teach Music Theory and Musicianship 1; John Crouch will teach Rudiments and Music Theory and Musicianship 1; Travis Hardaway will teach Rudiments and Music Theory and Musicianship 1, 2, and 3; and Steve Stone will teach Music Theory and Musicianship 2 and 3.
