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Key to table:
MPAP - Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions
FAS - Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Tisch - Tisch School of the Arts
Last Name, First  |
Department/ School, Program |
Interest in co-teaching a course |
Music research interests |
Music performance activities or interests |
Interests in cross-department or school research or performance collaborations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adamo, Mark | MPAP, Music Composition | Electronic Music, Music-Drama | Electronic Music, Music-Drama | ||
| Allen, Mana | Tisch, CAP 21 | Musical Theatre composers and history | Musical Theatre historian | created 9 composer projects/revues | direction/coaching/creating recitals, group projects. |
| Arnold, Bruce | MPAP, Jazz Studies | Serial Composition, Improvisation, SuperCollider | Serial Based structures as they relate to improvisation. Classical structures as base for improvisation | Bruce Arnold Trio. Spooky Actions, see: http://muse-eek.com/brucearnoldpromo.html | Recording classical music with improvisation particularly 20th Century Music. SuperCollider collaboration, |
| Beckerman, Michael | FAS, Piano | music, war, and oppression; 19th- and 20th-century music; film music; Eastern European music | |||
| Benedict, Cathy | MPAP, Music Education | Pedagogy, Curriulum Development, Eudcational Philosophy, Teacher Preparation, Social Justice, Multiculturalism, Peer Observation | El Sistema | Anything that has to do with my research/practice interests. Especially teacher preparation, curriculum develoment, pedagogy, peer observation | |
| Boorman, Stanley | MPAP, Strings Studies | 15th-16th century music -- performance, notation, transmission | Baroque performing ensemble | Continuo; Renaissance vocal ensembles | |
| Cusick, Suzanne | MPAP, Strings Studies | music in early modern Italy; gender, sexuality and embodiment in relation to music; acoustical violence in contemporary war | early music performance projects, and/or on projects related to music in relation to trauma, violence, etc. | ||
| Daughtry, J. Martin | FAS, Music | ethnomusicology; music of the Russian-speaking world; music and memory; music and politics; the significance of sound in conflict zones | |||
| Diaz-Cassou, Isabel | MPAP, Music Technology | Sound design ; interactive music ; sound art | Sound design ; interactive music ; sound art | Sound design ; interactive music ; sound art | Sound design ; interactive music ; sound art |
| Drew, Krause | MPAP, Music Theory | Computer-Assisted Composition | Solo/chamber/orchestral music commisions | ||
| Elliott, David | MPAP, Music Education | Music Education-All Areas, Philosophy of Music, Community Music, Creativity | Music Education-All Areas, Philosophy of Music, Community Music, Creativity | ||
| Farbood, Mary | MPAP, Music Technology | Music cognition, computational modeling | Modeling how listeners hear musical structures in real time. Studying how listeners perceive tension and expectation in music. Modeling how time and memory constraints affect the perception of hierarchical structures in music.Exploring how listeners perceive differences in tuning and temperament. Using mathematical techniques to analyze empirical data. Implementing computer-assisted composition systems that visualize musical structures intuitively. | Harpsichord performance. Creative music software for educational purposes | Interested in collaborations with music theorists, experimental psychologists, researchers in math and computer science/machine learning, and education. |
| Feldman, Marion | MPAP, Strings Studies | Cello Pedagogy/String Quartet repertoire | Great Cellists and teachers of the 20th Century:their contributions to repertoire and cello technique. | co-director NYU String Quartet Workshop;Chamber Music and Recital performance at NYU and throughout the USA and Far East | Chamber music |
| Ferrara, Lawrence | MPAP, Music Theory, Music History, Music Performance | Research Methods in Music, Formal, Phenomenological, and Hermeneutic approaches to music analysis; Music Copyright | Music Performance; Digital Sampling and Production | Music Copyright specifically and Intellectual Property more broadly | |
| Fitterman Radbill, Catherine |
MPAP, Music Business | music entrepreneurship, live music industry | new venture creation | ||
| Fried, Joshua | MPAP, Music Technology | Real-time processiong, DSP. Performance concepts, NIME(New Interfaces for Musical Expression), Post-Minimalism, Electronic Dance Music | Real-time processiong, DSP. Performance concepts, NIME(New Interfaces for Musical Expression), Post-Minimalism, Electronic Dance Music | Live Perfrmance, Composition | NIME,Interdisciplinary Collaboration (e.g. I compose for your choreography, film, etc.). See radiowonderland.org. I've had multiple residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, etc. and we may already know each other. |
| Gardenal da Silva, Fabio | MPAP, Piano Studies | Chamber Music | Chamber Music | ||
| Giammanco, Leslie | Tisch, CAP 21 | The Art of the Cabaret | Audition Techniques | ||
| Glaser, Susan | MPAP, Music Composition | Composition | Linguistic Prosody and Musical Phrasing | Flute Performance, Chamber Music, Recording | Music Perception, Linguistics, Chamber Music, Electronics |
| Goodwin, John | MPAP, Music Composition | Performance | Chora/Orchestral Music 19th C to present | Choral Arts Society | any performance |
| Guy, Larry | MPAP, Woodwinds Studies | yes, perhaps an orchestral repertoire course | pedagogy, recordings of great clarinetists of the past for educational purposes | chamber music, recital repertoire | a study of Dalcrose Eurythmics for rhythm study and development among students, with emphasis on direct application to performance. |
| Guyton, Kate | Tisch, CAP 21 | Professional Actress | "Lucy Liu's assistant on "Cashmere Mafia" | starred opposite Alec Badlwin in "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" | Stage acting, film acting, print work, commercials, musical theater |
| Heisel, Erin | MPAP, Vocal Performance | Recent trends in American Music, Play Theory and movement improvisation | The recent vocal music of David Del Tredici, German Expressionism esp. the music of Anton Webern | Recent performances in South America and Central Europe, participant in Of the Refrain collaboration at NYU, upcoming performance at Weill Hall | Vocal Chamber Music of any style or time period, Performance Art, New Music |
| Hesser, Barbara | MPAP, Music Therapy, Applied Psychology | Music therapy as practiced with all populations, music psychotherapy, the interfaces of music and psychology | PI at Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy | music, psychology, creative arts, creative arts therapies | |
| Hodges, Emily | MPAP, Woodwinds Studies | Orchestra, various Ensembles, private lessons | Creating ensembles with the goal to perform in some venues around the city | ||
| Hoffman, Elizabeth | FAS, Music | composition (including computer-generated); comparative models for analysis and criticism of 20th-century music | Compter Music Performance | ||
| Horvath, Jan | Tisch, CAP 21 | Vocal Training Techniques | New Songs | Concerts | Composition |
| Kaplan, Chet | MPAP, Music Education | School Music | Orchestral Performance | Student Teaching | |
| Karchin, Loius | FAS, Music | Investigations in music analysis of late twentieth century music and 21st century works; relation of performance to composition and analysis | Conducting the Washington Square Ensemble (professional ensemble which gives 2-3 concerts of new music annually in Merkin Hall) Co-conducting the Chamber Players of the League ISCM (professional ensemble which gives 4-5 concerts of new music annually in various Manhattan concert halls.) Conducting the Orchestra of the League of Composers (professional ensemble which gives one concert each year of new chamber orchestra work.) | Collaborating with artists/composers whose interests overlap with the above, and collaborating with artists/students who might wish to learn/perform my compositions. | |
| La Barbara, Joan | MPAP, Music Composition | experimental music, extended vocal techniques, contemporary opera, computer and electronics, electroacoustic music, interactive technology, media, theater, dance, performance, etc., etc. | I am an achkowledged pioneer in the field of extended vocal techniques and using the voice as an instrument in a variety of areas in music, performance, theater and for dance, video and film. | performance, especially vocal, theater, creating music for dance, video, film, concerts, new opera, etc. | interested in collaborating with choreographers, filmmakers, video artists, music technology, theater arts |
| Law, Mary | Tisch, CAP 21 | Broadway Performer | Instructor, Private Voice, Pace University (Currently) | Broadway, Concerts, Regional and Off Broadway Performing. | Voice Performance Coaching, Private Voice Instruction |
| Mahon, Maureen | FAS, Music | ethnomusicology and cultural anthropology; the construction and performance of race and gender in music; African American popular music | |||
| Moloney, Michael | FAS, Music | ethnomusicology; folklore; Irish studies | radio and television presentation and production | collaborate a lot with Appalachian and Cape Breton musicians and dancers, also with early 20th century jazz and string quartets in various popular music genres | |
| Moore, Catherine | MPAP, Music Business | music business, genres in popular music, media/cultural trade politics, globalization strategy, 17th-century Italian music, and performance practice | cultural variety as music business strategy, business metrics for the live music business, combining international music marketing & translation theory | not as a performer, but active as a music critic | in all areas listed before, especially translation theory, and business metrics for the live music business |
| Moreno, Jairo | FAS, Music | theory; history of theory; Latin-American music | |||
| Mueller, Rena | FAS, Music | 19th-century music; Liszt; Wagner; opera; orientalism; film music | |||
| Naphtali, Dafna | MPAP, Music Technology | Computer Music, Interactive, Electro-Acoustic, Composition, Improvisation, Voice, Max/MSP/Jitter program design. | interactive electro-acoustic performance, mapping of new gestural controllers and algorithms for use in performance and sound installations | Max/MSP/Jitter program design, performance, composition, sound design, sound installations. | Interested in collaborations with video/film artists, dancers, theater artists and other musicians and site-specific installations. |
| Nonken, Marilyn | MPAP, Piano Studies | music theory, performance, and perception; 20th- & 21st-century piano music, particularly post-Cagean American composition and French piano music after Messiaen | ecological psychology and its relation to music perception | French piano music after Messiaen; 20th & 21st-century piano music; post-Cagean American composition | Musical and theatrical performance; multi-media performance aesthetics; ecological psychology and its relation to aesthetic perception and experience |
| Oblak, Jerica | MPAP, Music Composition | Microtonal music (spectral music, stretched harmonics), film/multi-media/music videos, and counterpoint. | Microtonal music (spectral music, stretched harmonics), film/multi-media/music videos, and counterpoint. | Contemporary music performance. | I wish to further develop my Augmentation Matrix, a microtonal system based on spectral sound/structural manipulations. I also wish to collaborate on various video/film/dance/theater performances. |
| Pors-Sadoff, Christiane | Violin Instructor | Violinist | Player in chamber or orchestral concerts | ||
| Reimer, Christine | MPAP, Vocal Performance | Vocal Pedagogy - especially Musical Theater | Voice Teacher, Coach/Accompanist, Music Director, Opera Singer, Musical Theater/Cabaret Performer | Chamber Music, Recitals, Opera, Music Theater, Cabaret - as a Singer or a Pianist | |
| Ricciardone, Michael | MPAP, Vocal Performance | Private Voice to Majors, Music Theatre Repertoire, Vocal Coach, Music Director of Annual Musical, Audition Committee | Singer and Pianist and Coach | ||
| Riley, Kathleen | MPAP, Piano Studies | piano performance, technique, physiology and biomechanics, injury retraining | multimodal feedback technology in children's music learning; biofeedback retraining of musicians' injuries and technical problems; physiology and biomechanics for musicians; analysis of high level piano technique | piano performance, accompaniment | technology in music learning, music technique analysis , biofeedback retraining, MIDI applications; biomechanics of music making |
| Roselli, Christopher | Tisch, CAP 21 | Vocology | Active Professional Solo and Ensemble Singer | ||
| Rowe,Robert | MPAP, Music Composition | Interactive Music Systems, Music Cognition, Music & Emotion, Distributed Performance, Music Information Retrieval applied to live performance | Artistic director of the Interactive Arts Performance Series, in collaboration with the Electronic Music Foundation | New music and computer music performance | |
| Sadoff, Ron | MPAP, Film Scoring | Analytical/Aesthetic/Historical course that provides critical synergies of music and moving images, i.e. film, television, radio, gaming, etc. | Film Music Analysis & Philosophy Film Scoring & Technology Qualitative Research Music Trends in the Entertainment Industry | Composing for Film and Multimedia Silent Film: Live Performance Piano Performance | Tisch Film/TV: Live performance with Film and Orchestra Tisch/Steinhardt: Director/Composer Jounalism/Steinhardt: Directors/Composers |
| Samuels, David | FAS, Music | ethnomusicology and linguistic anthropology; music and semiotics; Native American music and poetics | |||
| Sanders, Charlie | MPAP, Music Business | Copyright Law, Creator's Rights, First Amendment, Music Plagiarism and Piracy | If expertise is helpful | ||
| Scherzinger, Martin | Media, Culture, and Communication | Research specializes in musical culture, media and politics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a particular interest in the music of high modernism, minimalism, post-modernism, transnational musical fusions, electronic dance music (from disco to trance), non-western music, and the economic determinants of globalization. The work is resolutely interdisciplinary, spanning the fields of ethnomusicology, musicology, and music theory no less than sound studies, performance studies, and critical theory. Other interests include the poetics of copyright law, queer theory in music, censorship, and the politics of mass-mediated music. | Media Analaysis, Practices of Listening, African Music, Music of the 20th/21st Centuries, Musical Analysis, Composition | Active Composer and Performer (Mbira, Percussion, Piano with Echo Ensemble: African Alchemies) | Music Analysis, Topics in Audiovision, Aesthetics, Composition |
| Shankman, Ira | MPAP, Music Education | Music Technology/Improvisation | Positive reinforcement as related to Music Performance and Improvisation | Conductor, Arranger, Choral Activities | Open to ideas |
| Shankman, Nancy | MPAP, Music Education | Expanding the walls of the classroom through collaborations with the cultural community | Curriculum Development - Created the NYC Department of Education Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in Music | Conductor, NYU Madrigal Singers, Choral training and techniques, Vocal pedagogy, Performer | Interdisciplinary connections with other arts disciplines to develop forums, master classes and collaborations with the NYC Cultural Community. Open to other opportunities. |
| Silverman, Marissa | MPAP, Music Education | music education philosophy, general music, artistic interpretation, teacher education, and interdisciplinary curriculum development | music education philosophy, general music, artistic interpretation, teacher education, and interdisciplinary curriculum development | flute performance, chamber music performance | psychology of music and music education, philosophy of music and music education, community outreach |
| Simpkins, John | MPAP, Vocal Performance and Music Theatre | Stage Director - musicals | Stage Director - musicals | ||
| Stanyek, Jason | FAS, Music | ethnomusicology; Brazilian music; technologies of popular music; global hip hop; music and diaspora | active composer for dance productions and films; performs and records regularly | ||
| Underwood, Kent | Avery Fisher Center | Renaissance, Baroque, Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde | |||
| Wind, Martin | MPAP, Jazz Studies | Jazz/Classical Crossover Concepts | European Jazz Bassists | Martin Wind Quartet | all Jazzmusicans/Classical Musicians and Composers |
| Yoon, Monica Chiyoung | MPAP, Piano Studies | Piano performance & Teaching | Romantic period | recital, ensemble, concerto | ensemble |