Music TheoryAsh MachPhD in TheorySTUDENT PROFILE Ash Mach is a music theorist, violist, and digital humanist. They are pursuing a PhD in Music Theory and Certificate in Arts Leadership from the Eastman School of Music, where they research timbre and orchestration, critical organology, and Filipino art music. Passionate about how digital humanities methods can create…
Music TheoryEvan MartschenkoPhD in TheorySTUDENT PROFILE Evan Martschenko (he/him) is a music theorist, pianist, singer, harpsichordist, and a PhD student at the Eastman School of Music. Evan’s research explores historical systems of post-tonal analysis, with a special focus on pitch-class set theories from various locations and time periods, asking how and why certain modes of…
Music TheoryRyan GalikPhD in TheorySTUDENT PROFILE Ryan Galik is a music theory PhD student and Sproull fellow in his second year at Eastman. His primary research investigates how subversive techniques in ambient music serve to distinguish artists and their music amidst contemporary “ubiquitous music” ecologies. The project gathers literature from music theory, music cognition, media…
Music TheoryMarina LeeMA/PhDSTUDENT PROFILE Marina Lee is a second-year PhD student and Sproull Fellow in music theory. Her research interests include music cognition, gender studies, post-tonal music and composers, methods of analysis that involve quantitative data, and geometrical constructions in musical works both tonal and non-tonal. Marina’s current research project focuses on the application of…
Music TheorySam FaloticoPhD in TheorySTUDENT PROFILE Sam Falotico is a Ph.D. candidate and Sproull Fellow in music theory. His research sits at the intersection of music, media, and cultural studies within contemporary J-pop and K-pop (c. 2010–present), focusing on mediation, infrastructures and platforms, and cultural economics—with sustained attention to artists including Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and…
Music TheoryMaeve GillenPhD in TheorySTUDENT PROFILE Maeve Gillen (she/her) is a bassoonist, conductor, and third-year PhD candidate in Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music. Her current research centers on the intersection of bodies and politics in American minimalist music. Maeve’s other research interests include queer and trans* theory, theories of rhythm and meter,…
Music TheoryQiuwan Brena ZhaoBM in TheorySTUDENT PROFILE No student profile available.
Music TheoryZekai “Kai” LiuMA/PhDSTUDENT PROFILE Zekai is a first-year Ph.D. student in music theory, where he also received his B.M. in piano performance and music theory. His research interests include microtonal music, Schenkerian analysis, and film/pop music. He is also a first-year M.M student in Piano Performance and he studied in Prof. Marina Lomazov and…
Music TheoryMary JedynakBM in TheorySTUDENT PROFILE Mary Jedynak is a fourth-year undergraduate student in Music Theory and Guitar Performance. She studies guitar with Nicholas Goluses, and she is from Pittsford, NY.
Music TheoryAlex RodziankoMA/PhD in TheorySTUDENT PROFILE No student profile available.
