Music TheoryNoah KahrsMA/PhD in TheoryCURRENT STUDENT PROFILE Noah Kahrs is a third-year Ph.D. student in Music Theory. His research focuses on tensions between compositional and perceptual approaches to music theory, particularly in post-1945 concert and experimental music. He has presented research on works by Abrahamsen, Amacher, Gubaidulina, Ligeti, and Lucier, as well as on chord spacing…
Music TheoryLauren IrschickPhD in TheorySTUDENT PROFILE Lauren Irschick s a PhD candidate in music theory at the Eastman School of Music. The 2023 recipient of the Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers, Lauren is currently in residence at the Smith-McCullers House in Columbus, GA. Her dissertation project, entitled “The Fictionalization of Music Analysis” explores both…
Music TheoryRuixue HuMA/PhD in TheorySTUDENT PROFILE Ruixue Hu (BA, CUHK; MMus, Dunelm) is a third-year Ph.D. student in music theory. His research interests include musical forms, Chinese music theory, guqin and its music, Anton Bruckner, and Joe Hisaishi, among others.
Music TheoryRob HamiltonMA/PhD in TheorySTUDENT PROFILE Rob Hamilton is a fifth-year PhD student in Music Theory. His research focuses on twentieth-century tonal music, especially with an approach that blends schema theory with theories of scale and mode. He presented on the music of Herbert Howells at SMT New Orleans in 2022, on Olivier Messiaen at…
Music TheoryDavid FaltermanMA/PhD in TheorySTUDENT PROFILE No student profile available.
Music TheoryJacob EichhornMA/PhD in TheorySTUDENT PROFILE Jacob Eichhorn (he/him) is a music theorist and clarinetist pursuing his PhD in Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music. Buttressed by gender studies and queer theory, his research focuses on closure, agency and action, and corpus study and analysis of popular music and roots music including bluegrass and…
Music TheoryAndrew BlakeMA/PhD in TheorySTUDENT PROFILE Andrew Blake is a third-year Ph.D. student in music theory. Prior to his enrollment at Eastman, he earned a B.M. in Music Performance (Trombone) and a B.S. in Computer Science from Wright State University (2018), and a M.A. in Music Theory from Kent State University (2020). His research interests…
Music TheoryChristian BirknessMA/PhD in TheorySTUDENT PROFILE Christian Birkness is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate. He holds a BM in Music Theory from Eastman (2018), where he graduated with highest distinction and was elected to the Pi Kappa Lambda musical honors society, and an MA in Music Theory from Eastman (2020). His research focuses on diminution theory and jazz…
Music TheoryM. Jerome BellMA/PhD in TheorySTUDENT PROFILE M. Jerome Bell is a third-year Ph.D. student and Provost’s Fellow in music theory at the Eastman School of Music. He holds a B.M. in composition and an M.M. with a double concentration in composition and conducting from Houghton University. Jerome’s research interests include theory pedagogy, linear analysis,…
Music TheoryKiyomi Kimura AndohMA/PhD in TheorySTUDENT PROFILE No student profile available.
