Eastman Theory Colloquium

Friday, September 6, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
“Four Modes of Music-Analytic Interpretation”
Jeffrey Swinkin (University of Oklahoma)

Friday, September 20, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Sumanth Gopinath (University of Minnesota)

Friday, September 27, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Nancy Murphy (University of Michigan)

Friday, October 4, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
“Porous Instruments: Synthesizers and the Circulation of Cultural Value”
Jennifer Iverson (University of Chicago)

Friday, October 18, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Professional Development Workshop

Friday, October 25, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Dariusz Terefenko (Eastman School of Music)

Friday, November 1, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
SMT Run-Throughs

Friday, November 15, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Andrew Chung (University of North Texas)

Friday, November 22, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Megan Long (Oberlin College and Conservatory)

Friday, December 6, 2024 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Stephen Rodgers (University of Oregon)

Friday, January 24, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Conference Proposal Workshop

Friday, January 31, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Bryan Parkhurst (Oberlin College and Conservatory)

Friday, February 7, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Landon Morrison (Eastman School of Music)

Friday, February 14, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Nathan Lam (Eastman School of Music)

Friday, February 21, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Tahirih Motazedian (Vassar College)

Friday, February 28, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Miriam Piilonen (University of Massachusetts – Amherst)

Friday, March 21, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Robin Attas (Independent Scholar)

Friday, March 28, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
MTSNYS Run Throughs

Friday, April 18, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Noriko Manabe (Indiana University)

Friday, April 25, 2025 at 4 PM ET in ESM 305
Undergraduate Thesis Presentations

Friday, January 19, 2024 at 4PM ET in Howard Hanson Hall
“J.S. Bach, Music Theory, and Artificial Intelligence”
Alex Rehding (Harvard University)

Friday, January 26, 2024 at 4PM ET in ESM 305
“Cantonese Opera Aria: Considering an American Soundtrack of the Roaring Twenties” 
Nancy Rao (Rutgers University)

Friday, February 2, 2024 at 4PM ET in ESM 305
“African Art Music and the Challenge of Postcolonial Composition”
Kofi Agawu (CUNY)

Friday, February 16, 2024 at 4PM ET in ESM 305
“A Curricular Balancing Act: Diversity and Practicality”
Melissa Hoag (Oakland University)

Friday, February 23, 2024 at 10:30 AM ET in MHS 1
“Composing (with) Theories of Acoustics and Pitch Perception After 1950”
Noah Kahrs (Eastman School of Music)
Dissertation Defense

Friday, February 23, 2024 at 4PM ET in ESM 305
“Heavenly Music as Public Music Theory“
J. Daniel Jenkins (University of South Carolina)

Wednesday February 28, 2024 at 9AM ET in ESM 305
“Form and Narrative in Kollywood Film Music”
Hanisha Kulothparan (Eastman School of Music)
Dissertation Proposal Defense

Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 4PM ET in Howard Hanson Hall
“Theorizing Phrase Structure in Guqin Music”
Ruixue Hu (Eastman School of Music)
**Winner of the 2023 Presser Award

Friday, March 1, 2024 at 2 PM in MC 320
“Applying Analytical Approaches to Contemporary Black Gospel Music”
M. Jerome Bell (Eastman School of Music)
Dissertation Proposal Defense 

Friday, March 1, 2024 at 4PM ET in Howard Hanson Hall
“George Perle’s Modal, Tonal, and Dissonant Practice”
Phil Stoecker (Hofstra University)

Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 9:30 AM ET in MSH 1
“Intimacy and Middleness in Post-Millenial Pop Music”
David Falterman
Dissertation Defense

Friday, March 22, 2024 at 4PM ET in Howard Hanson Hall
Conference Paper Run-Throughs
Zekai Liu, Maeve Gillen, Ryan H. Jones, Jacob Eichhorn, Hanisha Kulothparan

Friday, March 29, 2024 at 4PM ET in Howard Hanson Hall
“New Music and the Politics of Japaneseness in Yano Akiko’s ‘Tsugaru Tour'”
Toru Momii (Harvard University)

Friday, April 12, 2024 at 4PM ET in Howard Hanson Hall
“Florence Price’s Dream Variations”
Rachel Lumsden (Florida State University)

Friday, April 19, 2024 at 4PM ET in Howard Hanson Hall 
“Faust’s Violin Concerto”
Janet Schmalfeldt (Tufts University)

Friday, May 3, 2024 at 4PM ET in A710
Undergraduate Thesis Presentations
Zixu (Daniel) Qin, “Rachmaninoff’s Revisions: Analysis of Texture, Harmony, and Voice Leading in Two Movements from Morceaux de Fantasie, op. 3″
Jacob Hinton, “An Exploration into the Neotonal Harmonic Languages of Samuel Barber, Benjamin Britten, and Francis Poulenc”
Comps 1B Presentations
Maeve Gillen, “Hermeneutics of the Musical Police State: Process and Musical Collectivism in David Lang’s I fought the law”
Daniel Chang, “Sergei Taneyev’s Russian Requiem: The Apparent Infinite Canon in John of Damascus as a Commentary on History and Self”