MusicFaculty Directory

Concentration: 

Composition/Theory

Gerald Chenoweth

Composition/Theory

Prof. Chenoweth has degrees from the University of Massachusetts (B.M. and M.M.) and the University of Iowa (Ph.D.). His works have been performed extensively in this country and Europe, and he has conducted contemporary music ensembles at Rutgers and the University of Iowa. His compositions have been recorded for CRI, the Smithsonian Collections of Recordings, and Access.

Office: Graduate Music House 200A | Phone: 732-932-8813
Email: chenowet@rci.rutgers.edu


Richard Chrisman

Composition/Theory

Richard Chrisman is current Director of the Graduate Programs in Music: the Master of Music, the Artist Diploma, and Doctoral of Music Arts in the Mason Gross School of the Arts; and the Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in musicology and in compostion/theory for the Graduate School of Rutgers University. He graduated from Yale with a PhD in music theory, and now devotes most of his time toward composition.

Office: Music 114 | Phone: 732-932-9272
Email: chrisman@rci.rutgers.edu


Christopher Doll

Composition/Theory

Christopher Doll specializes in the analysis of recent popular and art music (especially in regard to tonality), the analysis of film music, metatheory, and composition. He earned degrees at Columbia University (Ph.D. with distinction), the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (M.M.), and Case Western Reserve University (B.A.), and undertook additional graduate studies at SUNY Stony Brook.

Office: Graduate Music House 200B | Phone: 732-932-8813
Email: cdoll@rci.rutgers.edu
Personal Website


Charles Fussell

Theory, Composition

Fussell's works include five symphonies; Wilde, a symphony for baritone and orchestra, was runner-up for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize. In 1992, Mr. Fussell received a citation and award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Office: Music Building | Phone: 732-932-9302
Personal Website


Nancy Yunhwa Rao

Theory

Dr. Rao has degrees from National Taiwan Normal University (B.A.) and the University of Michigan (M.M. and Ph.D.). Her research interests include twentieth-century American music, women composers, early history of Chinatown opera theaters and contemporary Chinese composers. Her articles can be found in the Musical Quarterly, American Music, Perspectives of New Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, as well as essay collections Locating East Asia in Western Art Music and Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-century American Music. She received American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, 2003, and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship, 2004–2005.

Office: Graduate Music | Phone: 732-932-8809
Email: ryh@rci.rutgers.edu


Matthew Riedel

Composition

Composer, music theorist, and computer wizard Matt runs the electronic music lab and the IMLC on-line training system. His compostions include No Gas, Brasspiece, californicate, Additive Ambiance, Passing Tones, and Kiss the Shattered Glass.

Office: GMH 200E | Phone: 732-932-6873
Email: matthewr41@musictheory411.com
Personal Website

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