UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN - Key Persons
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- Professor of Guitar
- Professor of Guitar / Media
Adam Holzman, international performing and recording artist, is hailed as "...polished and quite dazzling," by The New York Times, "...brilliant!," by De Gelderlander, Holland, and "...masterful!," by The Toronto Star. Five times he has been a winner in major international competitions. These include:
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- Assistant Professor of Instruction in Musicology
Alison Maggart is a musicologist, whose research focuses on twentieth-century music and culture, in particular serial music and aesthetics, philosophies of dissonance and noise, esotericism in music, and U.S. modernist identity. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Current Musicology, Perspectives of New Music, and Contemporary Music Review. She has also presented at numerous conferences on Milton Babbitt, baseball, and postwar nostalgia; intertextuality in serial music; new materials from the Piatigorsky archives (her paper, "A Newly Discovered Cadenza by Richard Strauss: Haydn, Til Eulenspiegel, and the Humoresque" won the AMS Ingolf Dahl Award in 2016); opera in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign; and time travel in "sound baths" at the Integraton. In 2020-21 she was an invited participant in a joint USC Levan Institute for the Humanities/UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture study group, devoted to sound in sacred spaces. As a public musicologist, she has worked for the Piatigorsky Archives, the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera, and the LA Phil.
After graduating from Middlebury College with a specialization in music composition, she worked as an orchestrator and transcriber for Bollywood composer, A.R. Rahman, in India. In 2017, she received her Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from the University of Southern California, where she was named the Outstanding Doctoral Student of the Thornton School of Music. Her dissertation, "Referential Play in ‘Serious' Music: Allusions to the Past in Milton Babbitt's Works from the Late 1980s," which theorizes the role that borrowing and quotation play in Babbitt's aesthetics and construction of American-Jewish identity, was awarded the Musicology Department Award and the Pi Kappa Lambda Award for academic achievement. In recent years, Maggart has become increasingly interested in sound baths, popular philosophies of vibration, and music that shares postwar concerns in space, time, and the cosmos.
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- Lecturer in Ethnomusicology
Amy Frishkey is an ethnomusicologist who specializes in popular music of the African diaspora in the Americas, exceptional vocality, and the world music and B2B background music industries. Her forthcoming book, Navigating Neo-Traditionalism in Garifuna Popular Music (Lexington Books, 2025), discusses the profound influence of neo-traditionalism upon Garifuna popular music since the mid-2000s and the different ways in which artists interpret and realize this aesthetic and ideological orientation as a way to contend with neoliberal socioeconomic developments. Dr. Frishkey's current research and next book project focus on the vocal "break" between the speaking range and the falsetto (or "head" and "chest" voice) and the sociocultural meanings and metaphors that arise to make sense of this physiological "border crossing" within singing traditions around the world.
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- Assistant Professor of Piano
Edwards leads the piano technician team for the Butler School of Music.
Andrew Edwards is the Head Piano Technician at the Butler School. Prior to coming to Austin, he has worked throughout the United States and abroad. Andrew has worked at Louisiana State University and the University of Houston. He received a Certificate in Advanced Piano Technology from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Andrew lived and worked in Auckland, New Zealand and studied piano technology in Vienna, Austria.
When not working on pianos he loves spending time with his wife Auris, their dog Boo, gardening, and watching Super Rugby, College Football.
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- Scholarship / Assistantship Coordinator
Anne manages scholarships & assistantships for all students at the Butler School.
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- Professor of Piano and Chamber Music / Division Head, Keyboard Studies
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- Associate Professor Emeritus of Piano
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- Associate Professor of Trumpet
- Member of the Canadian Brass
Hudson has been a member of the Canadian Brass, one of the premier brass ensembles in the world, for 10 years. He enjoys writing and arranging music, having many works performed, published, and recorded by Canadian Brass. In 2015, his composition White Rose Elegy was performed as a world premiere in Lincoln Center by the Canadian Brass and New York Philharmonic Principal Brass. He's also performed as an international soloist, including a recital that was broadcast nationally on NPR's Performance Today. Acclaimed by the New York Times as "brilliantly stylish," Hudson is known for his mastery of Bach's well-known Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, and is a renowned performer on modern piccolo trumpet as well as the historical baroque trumpet. He has performed the Brandenburg around the world with ensembles including Philadelphia Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Israel Philharmonic Soloists, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Handel and Haydn Society. Possessing a wide range of musical styles, his experience ranges from soloing in Carnegie Hall to appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live. His orchestral experience includes guest principal trumpet with the Philadelphia Orchestra as well as performing with the Seattle Symphony and New York City Ballet. He is an alumnus of Interlochen Arts Academy and Ensemble Connect, a fellowship program of Carnegie Hall that promotes community outreach and music education.
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- Associate Professor of Musicology
Charles Carson is a musicologist whose interests are African-American/American expressive cultures, Popular Music, Jazz, Film Music, and music and culture. A graduate of the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, Charles is a former Howard Mayer Brown Fellow for the American Musicological Society. He received his PhD in Music History from the University of Pennsylvania, with a dissertation entitled "Broad and Market: At the Crossroads of Race and Class in Philadelphia Jazz, 1956-1980." He has presented and published in a number of venues, on topics ranging from theme park music to smooth jazz.
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- Assistant Professor of Music Theory
Chelsea Burns received her Ph.D. in the Theory and History of Music from the University of Chicago. Prior to arriving at the University of Texas, she was Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music, and she previously taught in the music department at Harvard University. Her research interests include Latin American modernist concert music as well as vernacular music genres, especially country and bluegrass. She is especially interested in the ways that contexts-economic, political, material-affect analytical interpretation. Her research suggests that such contextual understanding shapes analysis in critical ways, at times undermining or reversing prevailing musical interpretations. Her work touches on issues of race, postcoloniality, instrumental technologies, and expressions of privilege and class, among others.
Professor Burns has presented papers at national conferences of the Society for Music Theory, the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, the Society for Ethnomusicology, the US chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, and the Latin American Studies Association. Recent and forthcoming publications address issues of exoticism and modernism in relation to Brazilian Indigeneity, the pedal steel guitar in 1960s country music, genre and race in 1970s country music, and Taylor Swift's re-recorded albums (Taylor's Versions). She is also an avid bluegrass player, and serves the Austin bluegrass community as a board member of the Central Texas Bluegrass Assocation.
CJ Johnson was born in Michigan and earned his Bachelors from Valparaiso University and Masters from Georgia State University. His primary teachers were Brian Ferguson, Chicago Lyric Opera, and Emory Clements, Atlanta Opera. Upon graduating, he spent two years on cruise ships playing music. Since then, he has played with numerous orchestras in the southeast, including Columbus (GA), LaGrange, Charleston, Greenville, and Tallahassee. While freelancing in Georgia, he started working with the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra as Orchestra Manager and Principal Librarian and teaching privately at LaGrange College.
CJ moved to Austin in 2016 to become the Performance Librarian for the University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music. As Librarian, CJ is responsible for providing music for all BSoM ensembles. While working at UT Austin, he also serves in many Central Texas orchestras, including Austin Symphony, Abilene Philharmonic, Central Texas Philharmonic, along with a calendar of other music engagements. He is also the Orchestra Librarian for the Abilene Philharmonic.
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- Director of the Longhorn Band at the University of Texas
- Director, Longhorn Band / Director, Symphony Band / Associate Director of Bands
Cliff Croomes serves as the Associate Director of Bands and Director of the Longhorn Band at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to his return to Austin he was the Assistant Director of Bands at Louisiana State University and the Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Civic Orchestra of Baton Rouge. Previous to his appointment the faculty he studied at LSU for his Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. Prior to his time at LSU Dr. Croomes served as the Director of Bands at Georgetown High School in Georgetown, Texas. Under his baton, the Georgetown Wind Symphony was named a 2014 Mark of Excellence Commended Winner. Earlier in his career Mr. Croomes was the Associate Director of Bands at Douglas MacArthur High School in San Antonio, Texas. He has also taught at Westview Middle School, Pflugerville High School and Bastrop High School. He has also had the pleasure of serving on the faculty of the University of Texas Longhorn Music Camp from 2001-2014.
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- Assistant Professor of Practice in Voice
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- Associate Professor of Practice in Violin
- Founding Member of the Miró Quartet
Daniel Ching, a founding member of the Miró Quartet, began his violin studies at the age of 3 under tutelage of his father. At age 5, he entered the San Francisco Conservatory Preparatory Division on a full twelve-year scholarship, where he studied violin with Serban Rusu and Zaven Melikian, and chamber music with Susan Bates. At the age of 10, Daniel was first introduced to string quartets.A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Daniel studied violin with Kathleen Winkler, Roland and Almita Vamos, and conducting with Robert Spano and Peter Jaffe. He completed his Masters degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with former Cleveland Quartet violinist Donald Weilerstein. He also studied recording engineering and production with Thomas Knab of Telarc, and subsequently engineered the Miró Quartet's first promotional disc. Daniel is on faculty at the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches private violin students and coaches chamber music. He concurrently maintains an active international touring schedule as a member of the Miró Quartet.
Daniel is a discerning connoisseur of all things cinematic and electronic. Before he became a busy parent, Daniel was an avid skier and a dedicated reader of science fiction-he looks forward to returning to those passions, some day. In his free time, Daniel enjoys hosting happy hours with friends and lounging at home with his wife Sandy, their two sons, and two cats.
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- Graduate Admissions Coordinator / Community Outreach Coordinator
Darlene Wiley was inducted into the American Academy of Teachers of Singing in March, 2021. Her collection of Essays on the Human Voice, Singing and Spirituality, Singing: The Timeless Muse (2019) discusses the breadth and depth of the role of singing in the lives of conductors, composers, musicologists, theorists, philosophers and health professionals.
Her performance career began as lyric coloratura at the Staatstheater Darmstadt performing over 50 roles in such operas as I Pagliacci, Die Zauberflöte, Don Pasquale, Tales of Hoffmann, La Traviata and Le Nozze di Figaro. A veteran of over 1500 performances Ms. Wiley has sung at over 25 opera houses, including Mannheim, Wiesbaden, Kassel, Mainz, Ulm and Kiel. As an oratorio performer she has sung with the Radio Sinfonie Orchester Frankfurt, the Cleveland Orchestra, Santa Fe Symphony, Dallas Symphony and the Austin Symphony. In 1985 she gave her first Carnegie Hall Recital featuring the lieder of Mozart and Strauss. Darlene Wiley's broadcasting credits include PBS, Canadian Broadcasting, KUT, KLRU's Front Row Center, Deutschefunk, Hessischer Rundfunk, Seoul Educational Broadcasting, and WFMT. At the University of Texas at Austin Wiley is director of the Vocal Arts Lab and supervisor of the DMA Vocal Pedagogy Program. Master Classes include Taejon, Seoul, Chuncheon, Pusan, Ulsan, Korea, University of Missouri, University of Kansas, Augustana College, Bluffton College, Pittsburg State University, Chopin Conservatory, Warsaw, L'Ecole du Opera, Liceo, Barcelona, Darmstadt, Germany, Oklahoma State University, College of Wooster, Akron University, University of West Virginia, Salzburg, Austria. Awards include that of Distinguished Professor at Myong Ji University, Seoul, Korea and Sook Myong University, Seoul, Korea.
Her current and former students are emerging as artists in their own right including appearances at the Metropolitan Opera, Staatsoper Berlin, Salzburg Festspiele, Washington Opera, Los Angeles Opera, St. Louis Opera, City Opera of New York, Seoul National Opera, Opera Hagen, Austin Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Ft. Worth Opera, Dallas Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Arizona Opera et al.
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- Professor Emeritus of Music Theory
- Professor Emeritus of Theory
David Neumeyer is Professor Emeritus of Music Theory in the School of Music. He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies (2014), co-editor of Music and Cinema (Wesleyan University Press), and co-author of Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History (Oxford University Press). His research interests include music in film, linear analysis (including Schenker), and music and social dance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Early in his career, he wrote The Music of Paul Hindemith (Yale University Press), which won a publication award from the Society for Music Theory in 1987. He serves on the editorial board of Music and the Moving Image. Dr. Neumeyer earned a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University and master's and doctoral degrees from Yale University. He taught formerly at Indiana University, where he also served as Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Music (1993-2000).
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- Assistant Instructor, Experimental & Electronic Music Studio
Deniz Aslan is a composer and a bassoonist specializing in new music. He was born in 1997 in Ankara, Turkey. Being classically trained in bassoon for ten years, he received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in composition from Bilkent University under the supervision of Tolga Yayalar. As of 2022, he is a DMA student and an Assistant Instructor at the University of Texas at Austin, continuing his studies under the supervision of Januibe Tejera.
Aslan has had the chance to study with composers such as Ann Cleare, Nicholas Vines, Chaya Czernowin, Ken Ueno, Stefano Gervasoni, Laurie San Martin, Mahir Cetiz, Mark Andre, Hanna Eimermacher, Natacha Diels, Tonia Ko, Ania Vu, Daniel D'Adamo, Tom Mays, João Pedro Oliveira, Stefan Pohlit, Ulrich Kreppein, Alican Çamcı, Can Bilir, Onur Yıldırım, and Pieter Snapper. He has also worked with ensembles such as Black Pencil, Yurodny Ensemble, Collegium Novum, Arditti Quartet, MotoContrario, Oerknal, Reverberation Percussion, Anatolian Wind Quintet, and Hezarfen Ensemble, and his music has been performed in Turkey, the United States, Italy, and Brazil.
Donald Grantham is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes in composition, including the Prix Lili Boulanger, the Nissim/ASCAP Orchestral Composition Prize, First Prize in the Concordia Chamber Symphony's Awards to American Composers, two first prizes in the William D. Revelli Competition, first prize in the Ostwald Competition, a Guggenheim Fellowship, three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and First Prize in the National Opera Association's Biennial Composition Competition. Dr. Grantham's music has been praised for its "elegance, sensitivity, lucidity of thought, clarity of expression and fine lyricism" in a Citation awarded by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His works have been performed by the orchestras of Cleveland, Dallas, Atlanta and the American Composers Orchestra among many others, and by wind ensembles all over the world. He has fulfilled commissions in media from solo instruments to opera. Dr. Grantham's music is published by Piquant Press, Peer-Southern, E. C. Schirmer and G. Schirmer, and many of his works have been commercially recorded. With Kent Kennan, Professor Grantham is coauthor of The Technique of Orchestration (Routledge).
Donnie Ray Albert is a regular guest of opera companies and symphony orchestras around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera as Germont, Los Angeles Opera as Trinity Moses in Mahagonny, Simone in A Florentine Tragedy, and as the Father in Hansel and Gretel, plus numerous appearances with Opera Pacific, Houston Grand Opera, Florentine Opera of Milwaukee, Dallas Opera, Arizona; Atlanta Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Minnesota Opera,Utah Opera, and the opera companies of New Orleans, Baltimore, Columbus, Kansas City, Omaha, Pittsburgh, and, in Canada, with the companies in Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, Manitoba, and Vancouver. In Europe, he has appeared at the Cologne Opera singing all Four Villains in Les Contes d'Hoffman, Cavalleria Rusticana, I Pagliacci, and Frank in Die Tote Stadt, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as the Four Villains, the Royal Opera Wallonie in Liege for Zemlinsky's A Florentine Tragedy, the National Theater in Prague as Jack Rance, the Deutsche Opera Berlin, Lithuanian National Opera in the title role of Der Fliegende Holländer, plus the opera houses in Bordeaux, Köln, Bregenz, Milan, Mannheim and Hamburg, and in Vienna in the title role in Ernst Bloch's Macbeth for the Vienna "Klangbogen" Festival.
He has appeared in Japan with the New National Theater in Tokyo as Wotan and the Wanderer in Der Ring des Nibelungen, and in Brazil as Jochanaan in Salome in Sao Paolo. As a concert artist, Mr. Albert has sung with the orchestras of Washington DC (National), Cologne, Southwest Florida, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Dallas, Minnesota, Seattle, St. Paul, Los Angeles, Austin, Palm Beach, Greensboro, Grant Park Music Festival, and Madison, Vienna and Linz, in Austria and in Jerusalem. He is also a resident artist with the Center for Black Music Research at Chicago's Columbia College. In recent seasons, Mr. Albert has appeared as Rigoletto for Vancouver Opera, Amonaso in Riga, Latvia, and Phoenix, Alfio for the Orlando Opera, Iago for the Kentucky Opera, Il Giuramento for the Washington Concert Opera, Das lied von der Erde with Rhode Island Philharmonic, Elijah with the Southwest Florida Master Chorale, concerts with the Choral Arts Society of Washington, the Atlanta Symphony, the American Symphony Orchestra for their performance of d'Indy's Fervaal, Nashville Symphony, the Kentucky Opera as Germont, Latvian Opera as Giorgio in I Puritani, Prague's National Theater as the Four Villains in a new production of Les Contes d'Hoffman, and the Semper Opera in Dresden for Keith Warner's new production of Faust, in Paris for Aida, in Riga, Latvia for Otello, Madison Opera for La Traviata, and Washington Concert Opera for Adriana Lecouvreur. Future engagements includes appearances as Amonasro in Edmonton and in the title role of Verdi's Falstaff for the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen.
Mr. Albert may be heard on RCA's Grammy Award and Grand Prix du Disque winning recording of Porgy and Bess, NOW's recording of The Horse I Ride Has Wings with David Garvey on piano, EMI's Frühlingsbegräbnis and Eine Florentinesche Tragodie by Zemlinsky conducted by James Conlon, and Simon Sargon's A Clear Midnight on the Gasparo label.
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- Associate Director of Bands at the University of Texas
- Director, Wind Symphony / Lecturer in Conducting
Douglas Henderson serves as Associate Director of Bands at The University of Texas at Austin, where his responsibilities include conducting the Wind Symphony, teaching advanced undergraduate and graduate conducting, and teaching band literature. Prior to joining the UT faculty, Dr. Henderson was an Associate Professor, Associate Director of Bands, and Director of Athletic Bands at Oklahoma State University.
Dr. Henderson is active as a guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician throughout the United States, and he has guest conducted in Austria and Japan. He is a frequent guest conductor of the World Youth Wind Orchestra Project (WYWOP), an ensemble comprised of talented young international musicians from Europe, Australia, Japan, and North America. He also previously served as the conductor of Frontier Brass Band, a British-style brass band based out of the Oklahoma City area.
Dr. Henderson received his Bachelor of Music degree in Music Studies from The University of Texas at Austin, his Master of Music degree in Wind Conducting from Michigan State University, and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Wind Conducting from The University of Texas at Austin. His primary conducting mentors were Jerry Junkin and Kevin Sedatole.
From 2003-2006, he was the Associate Director of Bands at J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas. In 1998 and 1999, he marched with the Madison Scouts Drum & Bugle Corps and then taught on the brass staff of the Madison Drum & Bugle Corps Association in 2001.
He holds professional memberships in the College Band Directors National Association, Phi Kappa Phi, Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Bandmasters Association, Kappa Kappa Psi, and Tau Beta Sigma.
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- Principal Conductor, Butler Opera Center
Dr. Carlos Capra is responsible for the development and implementation of Italian and graduate diction and translation classes for musicians in the Vocal Arts Division at the Butler School of Music. He holds a D.M.A in clarinet performance from UT-Austin where he also studied conducting, opera directing, and coaching under Dr. Robert De Simone.
He trained as a diction coach in Florence, Munich and Nice and has been coaching and teaching diction to singers, conductors and vocal coaches for over two decades (Italian, French, German, church and classical Latin, Spanish including regional variations and musical styles, Neapolitan, and Venetian).
Dr. Capra's expertise includes interpretation and performance of the various styles of operatic recitative from that of the 17th century through the operas of the 20th century, operatic Italian linguistics, and Italian, German and French operatic text in relationship to music from the phonetic, semiotic, linguistic and dramatic points of view. He studied foreign language methodology and second language acquisition while in graduate school and, before serving at the Butler School, he was on faculty at the Department of French & Italian at UT-Austin where he taught Italian language and culture from 1996 until 2013. As a clarinetist, Dr. Capra has performed chamber music and in opera orchestras and has been a clinician throughout Europe and South America.
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- Associate Director, Longhorn Band
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- Lecturer in French Diction and Translation
Eden Davis teaches French for Musicians and French Lyric Diction and Translation. She has taught French for many years in public schools before coming to UT Austin. Before her career in language teaching, Ms. Davis was a practicing attorney for over twenty years. Her interests include piano (especially four-hands), French art song, and linguistics.
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- Distinguished Fellow in Teacher Education
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- Associate Professor of Theory
Eric Drott received his PhD from Yale University in 2001, where he taught prior to coming to the University of Texas at Austin. His research spans a number of subjects: contemporary music cultures, streaming music platforms, music and protest, genre theory, digital music, and the political economy of music. His first book, Music and the Elusive Revolution (University of California Press, 2011), examines music and politics in France after May '68, in particular how different music communities (jazz, rock, contemporary music) responded to the upheavals of the period. He is currently finishing a second book, provisionally titled Streaming Music, Streaming Capital, which examines the material and psychic economies of music streaming platforms. He is also co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Protest Music with Noriko Manabe (Temple University).
Drott has presented papers at national and international conferences, including the Society for Music Theory, the American Musicological Society, the International Musicological Society, the Modernist Studies Association, and the International Conference on Twentieth-Century Music. Articles have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Cultural Politics, the Journal of the Society for American Music, Critical Inquiry, the Journal of Music Theory, Twentieth-Century Music, as well as several collections of essays.
Drott is a recipient of a research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2020 he received the Dent Medal from the Royal Musical Association for his contributions to music research.
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- Director, Symphony Orchestra
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- Assistant Instructor, Experimental & Electronic Music Studios
Interested in the possible dialogues between popular and concert music, Gabriel works on questions of intertextuality and metaphors as creative forces, such as the musical modeling of poetic images evoked in a popular song. He is especially motivated by ideals of reconstruction and recomposition, deformation and juxtaposition of these materials inspired by other creations and works with instrumental and electronic medias.
He studied composition with Paulo Guicheney at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), and obtained his master's degree from the CNSM de Lyon (France), where he studied with Michele Tadini and attended the classes of Martin Matalon and François Roux. He was mentored by composers such as Yan Robinn, João Pedro Oliveira, Panayiotis Kokoras, David Bird, Javier Torres Maldonado, Bryan Holmes, Rodrigo Lima, Gabriela Lena Frank among others. He currently pursuits a DMA in composition at the University of Texas at Austin under the guidance of Januibe Tejera. He received the Funarte Prize in Composition from the Brazilian Ministry of Culture at the Biennial of Contemporary Brazilian Music.
Gabriel also works in the production of new music, being one of the founders of the Música Íntima concert series in the city of Goiânia, whose productions since 2014 include the festival Goiânia Música Hoje, 19 concerts with local musicians and with groups such as Proxima Centauri (France), duo DOM, Quarteto Brasília Sax, and Ensemble Synthesis (Portugal), and also the release of two albums.
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- Resident Stage Director, Butler Opera Center
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- Student Services Coordinator
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- Professor Emeritus of Percussion
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- Lecturer in Organ and Harpsichord
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- Professor of Instruction in Musicology
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- Associate Professor of Musicology
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- Professor Emeritus of Saxophone
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- Assistant to the Director
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- Assistant Professor of Music Theory
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- Assistant Instructor in Theory
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- Director of Choral Activities
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- Associate Professor of Musicology
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- Professor of Theory / Director of Graduate Studies
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- Assistant Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology
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- Lecturer in Collaborative Piano
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- University Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of Jazz Studies
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- Director, the University of Texas Wind Ensemble
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- Associate Professor of Double Bass
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- Associate Professor of Jazz Studies, Double Bass
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- Associate Professor Emeritus of Musicology
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- Associate Professor of Practice in Viola
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- Professor of Jazz Composition, Jazz Saxophone
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- Associate Professor of Clarinet
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- Undergraduate Academic Advisor
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- Associate Professor of Practice in Violoncello
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- Professor Emeritus of Music and Human Learning
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- Professor Emeritus of Composition
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- Academic Assistant for Social Media
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- Professor of Bassoon / Division Head, Chamber & Collaborative
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- Teaching Assistant in Music and Human Learning
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- Assistant Professor of Voice
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- Assistant Piano Technician
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- Professor Emeritus of Piano
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- Assistant Instructor in Class Piano
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- Associate Professor of Practice in Piano Pedagogy
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- Graduate Program Coordinator
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- Professor Emeritus, Group Piano and Pedagogy
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- Emeritus Professor of Musicology
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- Professor and Head of Music and Human Learning at the University of Texas
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- Professor Emeritus of Piano
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- Assistant Director for Operations
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- Associate Professor of Horn
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- Specialist in Jazz Trombone
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- Professor Emeritus of Conducting
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- Professor Emeritus of Trumpet
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- Professor Emeritus of Musicology
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- Professor Emeritus of Oboe
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- Teaching Assistant in Collaborative Piano
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- Director, Center for Human Learning
Bob Duke is the Marlene and Morton Meyerson Centennial Professor and Head of Music and Human Learning at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is a University of Texas at Austin and University of Texas System Distinguished Teaching Professor, Elizabeth Shatto Massey Distinguished Fellow in Teacher Education, and Director of the Center for Music Learning. He is also a clinical professor in the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas and was the founding director of the psychology of learning program at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles.
Duke's research on human learning and behavior spans multiple disciplines, and his most recent work explores the refinement of procedural memories and the analysis of attention allocation in music practice and in teacher-learner interactions. A former studio musician and public school music teacher, he has worked closely with children at-risk, both in the public schools and through the juvenile justice system. He is the author of Scribe 5 behavior analysis software, and his most recent books are Intelligent Music Teaching: Essays on the Core Principles of Effective Instruction, The Habits of Musicianship, which he co-authored with Jim Byo of Louisiana State University, and Brain Briefs, which he co-authored with Art Markman, his co-host on the public radio program and podcast Two Guys on Your Head, produced by KUT Radio in Austin.
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- Professor Emeritus of Music Theory
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- Professor of Ethnomusicology
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- Assistant Director and Coordinator of the University of Texas String Project
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- Professor Emeritus of Composition
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- Assistant Director for Admissions
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- Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in Middle Eastern Studies
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- Professor Emeritus of Piano Pedagogy
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- Professor Emeritus of Theory
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- Assistant Instructor in Theory
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- Associate Professor of Saxophone
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- Professor Emeritus of Ethnomusicology
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- Associate Professor Emeritus of Tuba
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- Teaching Assistant in Wind Conducting
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- Senior Administrative Associate for Business Operations
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- Associate Director, Butler School of Music / Professor of Percussion
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- Associate Professor of Practice in Violin and Chamber