Faculty Teaching Graduate Seminars
Composition
anderso7@email.unc.edu
Allen Anderson (Associate Professor) received a Bachelor of Music (1973) from the University of California at Berkeley, a Masters of Arts (1977) and Doctor of Philosophy (1984) in Theory and Composition from Brandeis University. A composer and Head of the Composition Area, he teaches composition, counterpoint and 20th Century music to undergraduates, along with theory and analysis courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Current composition projects include a piece for two pianos, a choral work on a fragment of Schoenberg's, and a piece for gamelan and two electric guitars. [more]
Musicology
mebonds@email.unc.edu
Mark Evan Bonds (Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor) received a B.A. in music and German from Duke University in 1975; an M.A. in musicology from the Universität Kiel (West Germany) in 1977; and a Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard University in 1988. He taught at Boston University before joining the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992. His research interests include music of the Classic and Romantic eras, particularly instrumental music and aesthetic theory. He is currently at work on a book on the relationship between musical aesthetics and politics in the mid-nineteenth century. [more]
Musicology
cartert@email.unc.edu
Tim Carter (Distinguished Professor and Chair) was born (1954) in Sydney, Australia, and studied in the United Kingdom at the University of Durham and then under Nigel Fortune at the University of Birmingham. He has taught in the UK at the Universities of Leicester and Lancaster, and at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, where he was Department Chair. His doctoral research was on Jacopo Peri - his thesis was published (1989) by Garland Publications, New York, in their series 'Outstanding Dissertations in Music from British Universities' - and he has continued to work extensively on music in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy. [more]
Musicology, Women's Studies
fauser@email.unc.edu
Annegret Fauser (Professor and Adjunct Professor in Women's Studies) studied musicology, art history, and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität in Bonn, the Université de la Sorbonne-Paris IV, and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. She received her PhD at the University of Bonn in 1992. She was "chercheur invité" at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris (1992-93) and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia (2001), and she held a Pardue Fellowship at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC (2004). Before joining the faculty at UNC, she taught musicology at the Université François Rabelais in Tours, the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and City University, London. [more]
Musicology
jfinson@email.unc.edu
Jon W. Finson (Professor and Adjunct Professor of American Studies) received a Bachelor of Music (with honors) from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1973, a Master of Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1975, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1980 with a dissertation on compositional process in the symphonic works of Robert Schumann. Since then he has taught, lectured, and published widely across the United States and Europe in many areas of nineteenth-century German music and in the history of American popular song. Most recently his research has turned to interactions between image and music in American cinema. He teaches undergraduate courses in the American Studies Curriculum as well as graduate and undergraduate courses in the Music Department. [more]
Ethnomusicology
daga@email.unc.edu
David Garcia (Assistant Professor) received his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at the City University of New York, The Graduate Center in 2003. He specializes in Latin American and Latino popular music. He teaches undergraduate courses in music of Latin America and world music and graduate seminars in ethnomusicology, music of the African diaspora, and popular music. He also directs Charanga Carolina (MUSC 7E, Section 4), which specializes in Cuban danzón and early salsa from New York City (http://music.unc.edu/ensembles/charanga/). His publications include Arsenio Rodriguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music (Temple University Press, 2006). He has done research in New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, Havana, and Curaçao. His current research interests include early Latin jazz history and Latin popular music and culture of the 1940s and 1950s. [more]
Ethnomusicology, Popular Music
mkatz@email.unc.edu
Mark Katz (Assistant Professor) holds degrees from the College of William and Mary (B.A. in philosophy, 1992) and the University of Michigan (M.A., Ph.D. in musicology, 1999). Before joining the faculty at UNC, he taught at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University (1999-2006). His research and teaching focus on music and technology, popular music, and performance practice. He has written two books, Capturing Sound: How Technology has Changed Music (2004) and The Violin: A Research and Information Guide (2006). He is currently at work on two books, The Social Life of Sound Technologies: A History in Documents (with Timothy Taylor and Anthony Grajeda) and Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip Hop DJ. His work on Groove Music is being supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. [more]
Composition, Musicology, Piano
stefanlitwin@gmx.com
The UNC Department of Music is delighted to welcome Stefan Litwin as George Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Music. He is a renowned concert pianist, and is also highly active as a composer and as a musicologist. His 1998 recording of Jean Barraqué’s ferociously difficult Piano Sonata won the French Grand Prix du Disque, and he has been the recipient of prestigious fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and Christ College, Cambridge. [more]
Musicology
macneil@email.unc.edu
Anne MacNeil (Associate Professor). BMus, Ithaca College (1981); MA in Music History, Eastman School of Music (1985); PhD in the History and Theory of Music, University of Chicago (1994). Before joining the faculty at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Professor MacNeil taught at Northwestern University and the University of Texas at Austin. Her areas of specialization include music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, music and spectacle, commedia dell’arte, opera, performance studies and historiography. Her current research encompasses early-modern laments, operatic settings of tales of the Trojan Wars, and the intersections of music, ceremony, and biography in the lives of Margherita Farnese and Eleonora de’ Medici. [more]
Popular Music, Theory
jneal@email.unc.edu
Jocelyn Neal (Associate Professor) received a B.A. in music from Rice University in 1993, an M.A. from the Eastman School of Music in 1995, and a Ph.D. in music theory from the Eastman School of Music in 2002. Her primary area of research is early country music and blues, following on her dissertation ("Song Structure Determinants: Poetic Narrative, Phrase Structure, and Hypermeter in the Music of Jimmie Rodgers"). Professor Neal teaches music theory, analysis, and popular music courses; her research addresses commercial country music, rhythm and meter, and dance/music interactions in popular music. She is currently serving as chair of the Popular Music Group for the Society of Music Theory, and a member of the editorial board for the academic journals Music Theory Spectrum and Southern Cultures. [more]
Theory
SevNeff@aol.com
Severine Neff (Eugene Falk Distinguished Professor) received a Bachelor of Arts in music magna cum laude from Columbia University (1971), a Master of Arts in music theory from Yale University (1972) and a Master of Fine Arts (1974) and Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University (1979). She has taught at Bates College, Barnard College of Columbia University, and the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, before coming to UNC-CH in 1995. [more]
Musicology
jancsi@email.unc.edu
John L. Nádas (Gerhard L. Weinberg Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences) was born in Caracas , Venezuela . He received a B.F.A. in music from Tulane University in 1968; an M.A. from Villa Schifanoia ( Florence , Italy ) in 1975; and a Ph.D. in musicology from New York University in 1985. He taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1982-83 before joining the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Professor Nádas is presently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Musicology. His interests include the music of 14th- and 15th-century France and Italy , Monteverdi, and 19th-century Italian opera. [more]
Ethnomusicology
vanderme@email.unc.edu
Philip Vandermeer (Music Librarian, Adjunct Associate Professor) holds the Bachelor of Music (1978) and the Master of Library and Information Sciences (1980) degrees from the University of Tennessee, and a Master of Arts in musicology from the State University of New York at Binghamton (1984). He studied anthropology and ethnomusicology at Brown University, completing his Ph.D. at The University of Maryland, College Park in 1999, with a dissertation on the gospel songs of the country singer, Hank Williams. He has served as a music librarian at the Free Library of Philadelphia and at the University of Maryland, and has taught musicology and ethnomusicology at SUNY-Binghamton, Brown, and the University of Maryland. He was appointed Head of the Music Library and Adjunct Associate Professor of Music at UNC-Chapel Hill in September 2001. He is currently President of the Music Library Association. His current research interests include the traditional musics of the southern Appalachians, early country music, the application of cognitive and language models to music analysis, and the intersections between music and information science. In addition to teaching in the Department of Music he also teaches music librarianship in the School of Information and Library Science. [more]
Theory
woerner@email.unc.edu
Felix Wörner (Assistant Professor) has studied musicology, philosophy, and German Literature at the Technical University in Berlin, at King’s College London, and at the Ruprecht Karls-Universität Heidelberg (M. A. 1996). He received his PhD at the University of Basel in 2002. Between 2002 and 2004 he was Research Assistant at the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Basel (Switzerland), the University of Rostock (Germany) and the Charles University Prague (Czech Republic). He received research grants by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in 1997-1999, the Paul Sacher-Foundation (1999), and the Avenir-Foundation (2004). In 2004-05 he held a Theodor-Lynen-Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation for postdoctoral research at Stanford University. [more]