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Department of Music
Granoff Music Center
20 Talbot Avenue
Medford, MA 02155

Email joseph.auner@tufts.edu

Phone
617.627.3564

Joseph Auner, Chair and Professor of Music. B.A., Colorado College, 1981; M.A./Ph.D in the History and Theory of Music, University of Chicago, 1991. Musicologist. Research interests: Second Viennese School, Music and Technology, Turn-of-the Century Vienna, Weimar Berlin, 19th and 20th-Century Music. Author of A Schoenberg Reader (Yale), Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg, with Jennifer Shaw, Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought, with Judith Lochhead (Routledge). Past editor-in-chief, The Journal of the American Musicological Society. Fellowships and Grants: Humboldt, Getty Center for the HIstory of Arts and Humanities, NEH. Appointed 2006.

Office Hours - **Chair: Mondays, 2 pm to 5 pm, Tuesdays 1:30 pm to 4 pm, Wednesdays 3 to 5 pm; **Mus25: Tuesdays 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm, Wednesdays 2:00 pm to 3 pm, Office M146, Granoff Music Center

Email edith.auner@tufts.edu

Phone
617.627.5616

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Donald Berman, Lecturer of Music, Co-director of New Music Ensemble. B.A., Wesleyan University. M.Mus., New England Conservatory. Studies with Leonard Shure, John Kirkpatrick, George Barth. Prozewinner 1991 Schubert Competition, Solo CDs include: "The Unknown Ives Vols 1 and 2"l "The Uncovered Ruggles" (New World Record); CDs as Artistic Director: "Americans in Rome: Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome 1920-present Volmes 1-4" (Bridge Records 2008); Songs of Aaron Kernis (Koch 2008); CDs of music by Scott Lindroth, Martin Boykan, Arthur Levering, Ruth Lomon, others. Editor of Ives crtitical editions. Internationally acclaimed recitalist and masterclass teacher. Recent performances include premier of Piano Concerto by Christopher Theofanidis with Pro Musica Symphony (Columbus, OH) and premiers by Su Lian Tan, David Rakowski, Mark Wingate. Other recent work has ranged from Mozart concertos with the Columbus Symphony to American music retrospectives, to recitals linking Haydn and Schubert with new music, called "thrillingly clear”  (NY Times). Grants from Copland and Argosy Foundations. Member, Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble. Board of Directors, The Ives Society, Inc; Art of the States. For more info see donaldbermanpiano.com.

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Office Hours - Tuesdays, 3 pm to 4 pm, or by appointment, Office M176, Granoff Music Center

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Andrew Clark, Lecturer of Music, Director of Choruses enters his fourth year at Tufts University. Mr. Clark received is M.M. in Conducting from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001, and is a 1998 graduate of Wake Forest University. In addition, he received advanced training as a conducting fellow at Brevard Music Center. His work on sociological issues in American popular music earned him a Spires Research Grant. Over the years, Mr. Clark has studied with Grammy-award winning conductor Robert Page, as well as Dale Warland, Gunther Schulller, Vance George, Jameson Marvin, David Effron, and Dennis Keene.

Mr. Clark has conducting experience in a wide array of settings including appointments at Clark University, Harvard University, Opera Boston, and work with the Boston Pops, Pittsburgh Symphony, and several other east-coast ensembles. In the summer months, Mr. Clark serves as a Conductor and Faculty Member of the Notes from the Heart Music Camp, through which he joins the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to teach music to children with disabilities.

In July 2006, Mr. Clark began his tenure as artistic director of both the Providence Singers and the Worcester Chorus. Mr. Clark is a member of Chorus America, the American Symphony Orchestra League and the music honor society, Phi Kappa Lambda. Appointed 2003.

Office Hours - Monday and Wednesday, 1:30 to 2:45 pm, or by appointment, Office M168, Granoff Music Center

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Alessandra Campana, Assistant Professor of Music, comes to Tufts from New College, Oxford University, where she served as an Astor Junior Research Fellow in Music. She obtained her doctoral degree in musicology from Cornell University. Her area of concentration and area of research is 18th and 19th century Italian opera, and her dissertation is entitled Opera as a Spectacle: Verbal Traces of the Visual in 19th c. Stage Manual. She is the recipient of several fellowships, including the Sage Graduate Fellowship, a CNR Fellowship from the National Research Council in Italy, and a European Universities Exchange Program Fellowship. She has taught as a Junior Research Fellow at Oxford and as a Teaching Assistant at Cornell University. Appointed 2007.

Office Hours - Tuesday, 3 pm to 4 pm, or by appointment, Office M276, Granoff Music Center

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Richard Jankowsky, Assistant Professor of Music in Ethnomusicology. B.A. Tufts University, 1995. Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2004. Ethnomusicologist. Research interests: Music of the Middle East and North Africa; Trance and Healing; Islam. Author of articles and reviews in Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology Forum, The World of Music, and The Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. Recipient of the Society for Ethnomusicology Charles Seeger Prize and the University of Chicago Stuart Tave Teaching Award. Fellowships and Grants: Fulbright/IIE, American Institute for Maghreb Studies, Jacob K. Javits, and Arts and Humanitites Research Council. Appointed 2006.

Office Hours - By appointment, Office M274, Granoff Music Center

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Paul D. Lehrman, Lecturer in Music and Multimedia Arts. B.F.A., Purchase College Conservatory, 1975. M.A., Lesley University, 2000. Undergraduate studies at Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1971-73. Director of Music Technology, Tufts University.

Composer, author, teacher, and technologist. Pioneer in the field of computer music. Recordings include "The Celtic Macintosh," first all-MIDI album, 1986; "Ballet Mécanique and other works for player pianos, percussion, and electronics," 2000. Compositions commissioned by NEWCOMP, Boston Computer Society, Audio Engineering Society. Film scores for PBS, A&E, Discovery Channel, History Channel. Appearances at Carnegie Hall, Symphony Hall, Royal Festival Hall, and with San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Faculty, UMass Lowell program in Sound Recording Technology, 1987-99. Principal author, "MIDI For The Professional" (Music Sales Corp.); author of over 450 articles on music and music technology; columnist for Mix magazine, 1995-present. Producer of "Bad Boy Made Good," award-winning documentary film, 2003. Appointed 2000.

Office Hours - By appointment, Office M246, Granoff Music Center

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David Locke, Associate Professor of Music. B.A. 1972, and Ph.D., 1978, Wesleyan University. Ethnomusicologist and performer. Founder and director, Agbekor Drum and Dance Society. Author: Drum Gahu: The Rhythms of West African Music: Drum Damba: Talking Drum Lessons; Kpegisu: A War Drum of the Ewe. "Music-Cultures of Africa" in Worlds of Music: An Introduction to Music of the World's Peoples. Research on the music and dance of West Africa. Appointed 1986.

Office Hours - Tuesdays-Thursdays, 3 pm to 4 pm, Office M272, Granoff Music Center

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John McCann,  Lecturer of Music. B.M.E., 1975, and M.M., 1977, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; D.M., Northwestern University, 1991. Trumpeter, bassist, and conductor. Numerous appearances as performer, teacher, and clinician. Appointed 1987.

Office Hours - Mondays, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm, Office M246, Granoff Music Center

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John McDonald, Associate Professor of Music. B.A., Yale University, 1981. M.M., 1982, M.M.A., 1983, and D.M.A., 1989, Yale School of Music. Composer and pianist.

A "fresh, inventive, urbane, and keen-witted young composer" (Boston Globe) and "a splendid pianist" "with a born pianist's command of colors, textures, dynamics" (Boston Globe), John McDonald has earned international acclaim as a musician. His compositions have been performed on four continents, and his work is frequently featured in the U.S.A. by such ensembles as Alea III, Arden Quartet, Boston Composers String Quartet, Hartt Contemporary Players, Marimolin, Rivers Trio, and Duo 101. Recently, McDonald served as Cultural Specialist in Mongolia, where he premiered his "Music for Piano and String Orchestra" and worked with students on his pedagogical works. In his performing capacity, recent honors include a Duo Recitalists' Grant from the NEA, an Artistic Ambassadorship to Asia, and an Artists' Residency at M.I.T. with sopranoKarol Bennett (1995, 1993, 1990-91), as well as invitations to perform his works at conferences in Amsterdam, Budapest, Havana, Montreal, Shanghai, and St. Petersburg. McDonald’s recent solo piano recital of “Common Injustices” by twenty-five living composers prompted Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe to write “one can hardly imagine anyone else undertaking such a program, or playing it with such modest and unobtrusive but total musical and pianistic mastery.”

Currently Associate Professor of Music at Tufts University, McDonald was Music Department Chair from 2000 to 2003. His recent accomplishments have included Composer Residencies with the METYSO Youth Orchestra, the Southern Illinois University Music Department, and Duke University, commissions from American Composers Forum, the Harvard Musical Association, Brave New Works, the Fleet Boston Celebrity Series, the Rivers Music School, and First Prize in the Leo M. Traynor Composition Competition for music for viol consort. McDonald’s recordings appear on the Albany, Archetype, Boston, Bridge, Neuma, New Ariel, and New World labels. Appointed 1991.

Office Hours - Thursdays, 11 am to 1 pm, or by appointment, Office M241, Granoff Music Center

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Gil Rose, Lecturer of Music. B.Mus., Music History, Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, M.F.A. & Artist Diploma in Orchestral Conducting, Carnegie Mellon University.  In 1996, Gil founded the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the leading professional orchestra in the U.S. dedicated to performing music of the 20th and 21st centuries.  Under his leadership, the orchestra has earned several awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and his released over a dozen CDs. 

In addition, he is the Music Director and Conductor at the Opera Boston and at the Opera Unlimited Festival in Boston.  As guest conductor he has worked with the Netherlands Radio Symphony, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and at Tanglewood,  He is the recipient of several awards including the Columbia University Ditson Conductor Award and the Best Conductor of 2003 Award from Opera Online.  The Department of Music welcomes him as Lecturer.  

Kareem Roustom, Lecturer of Music, Roustom holds a B.A., University of Massachusetts Lowell, M.M.A., Tufts University. Steeped in the musical traditions of the Arab Near East, jazz and concert music, Syrian born Kareem Roustom is an award-winning composer who has worked with a varied group of artists.  Roustom’s credits include a commission from, and performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, arrangements for Shakira, Beyonce and Wyclef Jean as well as recordings and performances with the renowned early music group the Boston Camerata.   With several films to his credit Roustom's work was recognized with the Best Musical Score award at the 2006 Bend International Film Festival for his score to the award-winning documentary “Encounter Point.”  Very active in the field of Arabic music Roustom regularly performs, records, teaches and writes about the varied music of the Arab Near East. 

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Janet Schmalfeldt, Associate Professor of Music. B.A. and B.Mus., Lawrence University, 1967, M.M.A., Piano Performance, Yale School of Music, 1970, Ph.D., Music Theory, Yale University, 1979. Author of Berg's Wozzeck: Harmonic Language and Dramatic Design, and of articles on the relation of analysis to performance, on Berg's Sonata, Op. 1, and on aspects of cadence, form, and voice leading in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music. President, New England Conference of Music Theorists, 1993-95. President, Society for Music Theory, 1997-99. Professor Schmalfeldt has recently completed her term as Tufts Music Department Chair (July 2003-July 2006). Appointed 1995.

Office Hours - Thursdays, 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm, or by appointment, Office M172, Granoff Music Center

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Joel LaRue Smith, Lecturer of Music. M.M. Manhattan School of Music; B.A. City College; Ford Fellow. Composition studies: Hale Smith & David Del Tredici; Jazz Piano: Jaki Byard & Barry Harris; Afro-Cuban: Charlie Palmieri. He has played with Ron Carter, Mario Bauza and Kenny Burrell. The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation 1995 Jazz Competition in conjunction with Jazz Times; Artist in Residence, Orchestra of St. Lukes Education Program; 6 "Meet The Composer" Awards; ASCAP's George and Ira Gershwin Award; Queens Council on the Arts Composer Grant; 1993 Artist-in-Residence conductor for the Warner Music Group, Inc.; Commissions by: New York University Tisch School of the Arts and Brown University. Mr. Smith has performed in the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Caribbean, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and The Whitney Museum; The White House; Symphony Hall in San Francisco & Boston; and The Royal Albert Hall in London. Appointed 1996

Office Hours - Tuesdays, 11:30 am to 1 pm,Office M243, Granoff Music Center

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Julie Srand, Lecturer of Music; Provile not yet available

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Rabbi Jeffrey A. Summit is an Associate Professor in the Department of Music. He also serves as rabbi and Executive Director of the Hillel Foundation at Tufts. He holds rabbinic ordination and an M.A.H.L. from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Tufts University where he studied ethnomusicology in the Tufts interdisciplinary doctoral program. He is the author of The Lord's Song in a Stange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship (Oxford University Press, 2000) and together with photojournalist Richard Sobol, is co-author of Abayudaya: The Jews of Uganda (Abbeville Press, 2002). Rabbi Summit has also recorded, compiled, and annotated the CD Abayudaya: Music from the Jewish People of Uganda for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. This CD was nominated for a Grammy Award for best album in the category of Traditional World Music. He has conducted research in the United States, Uganda, and Israel on music, identity, and religious experience as well as on technology and oral tradition.

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Michael Ullman, Lecturer of Music. B.A., Harvard College, 1967. M.A., University of Chicago, 1968. Ph.D., University of Michgan, 1976. Writer and critic. Author of Jazz Lives: Portraits in Words and Pictures and (with Lewis Porter) Jazz: From Its Origins to the Present, and numerous articles and reviews; regular columnist for Fanfare magazine. Joint appointment with the Tufts Department of English. Appointed 1986.

Office Hours - Mondays 12 pm to 1 pm, 3 pm to 4 pm, Wednesdays, 1 pm to 2 pm, Granoff Music Center, M245

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Paul Ahlstrand, Small Jazz Band Director/saxophonist, holds a defree in Music Education from Syracuse University. He has worked throughout the US, Canada, and Europe with a variety of artists, including The Four Tops, The Temptations, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Toni Lynn Washington, Mighty Sam McClain, Son Seals, Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, Susan Tedeschi, and many others. He is an active performer, studio musician, arranger, and composer. A discography and current performance schedule are available at www.paulahlstrand.com.

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Scott Aruda, Small Jazz Band Director, biography not yet available.

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Nina Barwell, Director of the Flute Ensemble. The New York Times wrote of Nina Barwell’s debut recital in Carnegie Recital Hall that “her playing reflected the skill and assurance of a seasoned performer,” and  “she played beautifully.” Nina Barwell is an active flutist in the Boston area. She plays in the Nashua Symphony Orchestra, and is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory Preparatory School. She has taught at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Ohio University School of Music, and Boston University School of Music. She has performed as a soloist with the Boston Pops, played at Tanglewood and performed for two summers at the Bach Aria Festival. She has played numerous solo recitals on WGBH Radio and at Jordan Hall.

Nina Barwell is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and received a M.M. from SUNY, Stony Brook. She received a Fulbright Grant to Paris, France. Her teachers include James Pappoutsakis, Jean Pierre Rampal, and Samuel Baron. Ms. Barwell teaches flute at Tufts in the applied music program and since 1990 has conducted the Tufts Flute Ensemble.

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David Coleman, Third Day Gospel Choir Director, has a B.M. in both piano performance and composition from Boston University and an M.A. in composition from Tufts University. Actively involved in gospel music in New England for 17 years, he has previously directed several area choirs including the Boston University Inner Strength Gospel Choir, the Tufts Third Day Gospel Choir, and Confirmation, which currently has three CDs featuring Coleman's compositions. A native Memphian, he has also worked and performed with Patti Labelle, Bobby McFerrin, and Phish. Currently the Director of Choral Music at the Dana Hall School in Wellesley, he has taught at the Boston Conservatory, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, the Walnut Hill School, and Beaver Country Day School. Both a composer and teacher, he has conducted many gospel music workshops for schools and students, young and old, all over New England. He is excited to be able to share the rich history of gospel music with those who already love it and those who love to learn more. He is a member of Mt. Olive Kingdom Builder's Church in Dorchester, where Robert Perry II is the pastor. He is married to Fadie Coleman, and they have a two-year old daughter, Aimée, who continues to be his muse and the love of their lives.

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