Current Students

Student and alumni achievements in 2024–25

 

Job Placements

 

Jerome Bell (ABD). Cleveland Institute of Music, Guest Lecturer.

Richard Desinord (PhD 2022). Georgetown University, Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Music.

Jacob Eichhorn (ABD). University of Texas at San Antonio, Assistant Professor of Practice in Music Theory.

David Falterman (PhD 2024). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Teaching Assistant Professor of Music Theory.

Noah Kahrs (PhD 2024). Indiana University, Assistant Professor of Music Theory.

Hanisha Kulothparan (PhD 2025). University of Rochester, Assistant Professor of Music.

Sam Reenan (PhD 2021). Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Assistant Professor of Music Theory.

Lauren Wilson (PhD 2023). University of Buffalo. Associate Professor of Law.

Ania Vu (BM 2017). Pomona College. Assistant Professor in Music Composition.

 

Awards and Fellowships

 

Jerome Bell. Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student, University of Rochester.

Jerome Bell. Ball Dissertation Fellowship, University of Rochester.

Jacob Eichhorn. Dorothy Payne Award for Best Student Paper, Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic.

Sam Falotico. Jerald C. Graue Fellowship, Eastman Musicology.

Sam Falotico. Society for Music Theory Student Presentation Award (Honorable Mention).

Ryan Galik. Arthur Komar Award (Honorable Mention), Music Theory Midwest

Ruixue Hu. Roland Jackson Memorial Grant, American Musicological Society.

Ruixue Hu. Best Student Paper Award, South Central Society for Music Theory.

Ruixue Hu. Herbert Colvin Award, Texas Society for Music Theory.

Ruixue Hu. Diversity in Course Design Award (Honorable Mention), Society for Music Theory.

Ash Mach. Institute for Music Leadership grant for “Sounding the Philippines: A Digital Exhibit.”

Evan Martschenko. Patricia Carpenter Award (Honorable Mention), Music Theory Society of New York State.

 

Publications

 

Hanisha Kulothparan, “Storytelling and Meter in clipping’s. ‘story 2.’” In Modeling Music Analysis, ed. Kim Loeffert and John Peterson (Oxford University Press).

Ruixue Hu. “Diatonic Modes and Chromatic Harmony in Anton Bruckner’s Sacred Motets.” Tagungsband of the 200 Jahre Bruckner-100 Jahre Bruckner-Forschung.

Ash Mach. “From Microformal Transformations to Macroformal Structure in Tristan Murail’s C’est Un Jardin Secret (1976).” Journal of the American Viola Society (Fall 2024).

Evan Martschenko. “’Feel the Emptiness’: Micro-Schemata in the Music of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki.” Music Theory Online 30/4.

 

Society for Music Theory Presentations

 

Sam Falotico, “’What’s in an OP?’: Narrative, KonoSuba, and the 3/4 Prechorus” and “Beyond the Spotlight: YOASOBI’s ‘Idol’ as a Critique of the Japanese Entertainment Industry.”

Ryan Galik, “Improvisation in the Aural Skills Classroom: Applications of Conversational Solfège.”

Maeve Gillen, “Hermeneutics of the Musical Police State: Process and Collectivism in David Lang’s I Fought the Law.”

Ruixue Hu, “Temporality, Tragedy, and Reversed Recapitulation in the Serial-Minimalist First Movement of Joe Hisaishi’s East Land Symphony.”

Hanisha Kulothparan, “Storytelling and Meter in clipping.’s ‘story 2′” and “Five Lessons in my First Five Years in Music Theory.”

Evan Martschenko, “‘Feel the Emptiness’: Micro-Schemata in the Music of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki.”

Alex Rodzianko, “A Generalized Model of Wechsel Cycles.”