Research Interests Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions

• Juan Pablo Bello - Assistant Professor of Music and Music Education
  • Music Signal Processing
  • Audio-based Music Information Retrieval
  • Digital Audio Effects
    
  • Interactive Music Systems
• Meg Bussert - Music Associate Professor of Music Theatre
  • Music Theatre History (particularly 19th Century America)
  • American Songbook / Special Services / Popular songs during wartime
  • Acting through song
• David J. Elliott - Professor of Music and Music Education

  Philosophy of Music and Music Education

  Music and Emotion

  Community Music

  Creativity

  Multicultural Music Education

  Music Education Policy and Advocacy

• Lawrence Ferrara - Professor of Music; Director Emeritus, Music and Performing Arts
  • Music Copyright
  • Music History
  • Music Theory/Analysis
  • Music Research Methodologies
  • Philosophy of Music
• Catherine Fitterman Radbill - Clinical Assistant Professor of Music Business: Director, Undergraduate Music Business Program
  • Entrepreneurial Education
  • International Music Touring
• Brian Gill - Music Assistant Professor of Vocal Performance/Associate Director for Vocal Pedagogy
  • Vocal Pedagogy/Vocology/Voice Science
  • Language/Diction: French, Italian, German, English, and Mandarin
  • Philosophies of Teaching
  • Neapolitan Song Literature
  • Solo Vocal Literature of Max d'Ollone
• Barbara Hesser - Associate Professor of Music Therapy with a joint appointment in Applied Psychology: Director of Music Therapy and the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy at NYU
  • Music Therapy with all Clinical Populations
  • Music Psychotherapy, Group and Individual
  • Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy
  • Guided Imagery and Music
• Susan Koff - Clinical Associate Professor of Dance Education
  • Teaching and Learning in Dance Education
  • Integrated Curriculum
  • Qualitative Research
  • Arts Education
  • Arts Education Curriculum Design, Implementation and Evaluation
• Esther Lamneck - Music Associate Professor of Music and Music Education
  • Contemporary Music Performance
  • Electronic Music with Acoustic Instruments
  • Interactive Works with Acoustic Instruments and Ensembles
  • Visuals in Multi Media Production
• Robert J. Landy - Professor of Educational Theatre and Applied Psychology
  • Drama Therapy
  • Musical Theatre
  • Theatre in Prisons
  • Perceptions of Children through Art and Drama
  • Psychoanalysis and Action Psychotherapy
  • Theatre for Individual and Social change
• Panayotis Mavromatis - Assistant Professor of Music and Music Education: Director of Music Theory
  • Music Cognition
  • Computational Modeling
  • Schenkerian Theory
  • Analysis of Early Music
  • Post-Tonal Theory
  • Byzantine Chant
  • Ethnomusicology
• David Montgomery, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor of Educational Theatre
  • Drama Pedagogy
  • Arts Partnerships 
  • Integrated Arts
  • Teacher Education
  • Qualitative Research
  • Applied Theatre
• Catherine Moore - Clinical Associate Professor of Music Business
  • Strategic music marketing
  • Analysis of current trends in the entertainment industry
  • Cultural trade politics
  • 17th-century Italian music
  • Professional education -- from high school to executive education
  • Global business
• Marilyn Nonken - Assistant Professor of Music and Music Education
  • Spectral Music for Piano
  • 20th- and 21st-Century Piano Music: Literature, Reception, and Performance Practice
  • Ecological Psychology and Music Perception
  • Post-Cagean American Composition
• Kenneth Peacock - Professor of Music and Music Education
  • Musical Perception
  • Multimedia Digital Processing
  • Computer Music Composition
  • Linear Analysis/Music Theory
• Agnieszka Roginska - Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Music Technology
  • 3D Sound
  • HRTF Measurement Techniques 
  • Auditory Displays
  • Virtual Environment Simulation
  • Geometric Acoustic Reconstruction
  • Acoustic Sensing
  • Augmented Hearing
• Robert Rowe - Professor of Music and Music Education: Director and Department Chair
  • Interactive Music Systems
  • Algorithmic Composition
  • Music and Cognition
• Ronald Sadoff - Associate Professor of Music and Music Education: Composer
  • Film Music/Film Scoring
  • Music Theory/Analysis
  • Music History
  • Expressive Performance Analysis
• Joe Salvatore - Clinical Assistant Professor of Educational Theatre
  • Play development
    
  • Directing practice
  • Dramaturgy
  • Play Analysis
  • Teaching and directing Shakespeare
  • Character study
  • Interview theatre
  • Queer theory and performance
• David Schroeder - Music Associate Professor of Music and Music Education: Director of Jazz Studies
  • Jazz Education
  • Jazz Performance
  • Jazz Composition
  • Jazz History
  • World Music
  • Career Development as Performers
• Nancy Smithner - Clinical Assistant Professor of Educational Theatre
  • Contemporary Acting and Directing Styles
    
  • Physical and Experimental Theatre
    
  • Integrated Arts in the Curriculum
    
  • Feminist Theory
    
  • Teacher Training and Preparation
• Philip Taylor - Associate Professor of Educational Theatre
  • applied theatre
  • arts education
  • qualitative research
  • reflective praxis
  • educational inquiry
• Brann J. Wry - Associate Professor of Arts Administration
  • Marketing the Performing Arts, the New Demographic
  • Governance:  Best Practices For Boards of Trustees of Performing Arts Organizations
  • Transitions and Successions in Arts Organizations: Board and Staff Succession Planning