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In this episode, I chat with Professor Roger Matthew Grant. Professor Grant is a music theorist and cultural historian specializing in eighteenth-century music, affect theory, and the history of music theory. He is the author of Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical and Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era, both of which have received major scholarly awards. A...

In this episode, I chat with Professor Alexandre Abdoulaev. Professor Abdoulaev is a pianist, conductor, researcher, arranger, and band leader based in Baltimore, Maryland. He has been studying pianosince 1985, and has been teaching piano, music theory, and music history professionally for over fifteen years. Professor Abdoulaev studied both classical and jazz piano under such noteworthy teachers...

In this episode, I chat with Professor Emily Richmond Pollock. Professor Pollock is an Associate Professor of Music at MIT whose research explores twentieth-century opera, musical institutions, and cultural politics. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, she is the author of Opera after the Zero Hour: The Problem of Tradition and the Possibility of Renewal in...

In this episode, I chat with Mr. David Deveau. Mr. Deveau is an acclaimed American pianist, chamber musician, and educator who has performed internationally with major orchestras and ensembles for over four decades. A Juilliard-trained artist and recipient of the SHASS Levitan Award for Excellence in Teaching, he served on MIT’s Music and Theater Arts faculty from 1988 to 2020 and continues as an...

In this episode, I chat with Mr. Jeffrey Snyder. Mr. Snyder is a composer, improviser, and instrument designer based in Princeton, New Jersey. As founder of Snyderphonics, he creates original electronic instruments such as the Manta and JD-1 Keyboard/Sequencer , used by musicians worldwide. His music bridges experimental electronics, improvisation, and reimagined early music, often performed on hi...

In this episode, I chat with Professor David Kechley. Professor Kechley is an American composer whose music spans orchestral, chamber, and solo genres, blending influences from classical, contemporary, and vernacular traditions. Known for his dynamic contrasts of lyricism and virtuosity, Professor Kechley’s works have been performed by major ensembles such as the Minnesota Orchestra, Boston Pops,...

In this episode, I chat with Ms. Nina Fukuoka. Ms. Fukuoka is a Japanese and Polish composer and performer based in New York City. Her work brings together instrumental and computer music with multimedia art, exploring the intersections of sound, technology, and identity. Drawing from horror aesthetics, video games, and feminist scholarship, she examines the contemporary world through layers of cu...

In this episode, I chat with Professor Craig Wright. Professor Wright is the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor Emeritus of Music at Yale University, where he has taught since 1973 and chaired the Department of Music from 1986 to 1992. A leading scholar of medieval and Renaissance music, his research spans from early polyphony to Bach, while his later work explores Mozart and the concept of geni...

In this episode, I chat with Professor Dmitri Tymoczko. Professor Tymoczko is a composer, theorist, and scholar whose work bridges music, mathematics, and philosophy. He is Professor of Music at Princeton University and an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. A Rhodes Scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, Professor Tymoczko’s research revolutionized music theory through his geometrical appr...

In this episode, I chat with Professor David Berezan. David Berezan is Professor of Electroacoustic Music Composition at the University of Manchester. He is the founder of the Electroacoustic Music Studios and the MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) concert series. Originally from Canada, he studied history and composition before completing his PhD in Electroacoustic Composition at the University...

In this episode, I chat with Dr. Emmanuela Wroth. Dr. Wroth is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge whose research explores nineteenth-century French music theatre, celebrity, and the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class. Her current project, Diasporic Divas: Racialized and Gendered Celebrity in Western Europe, 1715–1925 , recovers the overlooked contribut...

In this episode, I chat with Professor Jennifer Iverson. Professor Iverson is a musicologist whose research explores the intersections of music, technology, and culture. A leading scholar of electronic and experimental music, she is the author of Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Avant-Garde (Oxford, 2019), which examines the pioneering WDR studio in postwar Germany. Her upcomi...

In this episode, I chat with Dr. Richard Whalley. Dr. Whalley is a composer and pianist based in Manchester, where he serves as Senior Lecturer in Composition at the University of Manchester. His music draws inspiration from time, memory, visual art, geopolitics, and the natural world- ranging from glacial landscapes to microscopic biological structures. Performed widely across Europe and the Unit...

In this episode, I chat with Ms. Nina Shekhar. Ms. Shekhar is a composer, producer, songwriter, and multimedia artist whose work explores identity, vulnerability, and human connection through bold, emotionally charged sound worlds. Hailed by The New York Times as “tart and compelling” and by the LA Times as an “orchestral supernova,” she is one of the most celebrated composers of her generation, w...

In this episode, I chat with Professor Paul Phillips. Professor Phillips is a conductor, composer, pianist, and author who serves as Professor of Music and Gretchen B. Kimball Director of Orchestral Studies at Stanford University. He directs the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Stanford Philharmonia, and Stanford Summer Symphony, and has conducted over 80 orchestras, opera companies, and ballet troupe...

In this episode, I chat with Professor John Rink, who is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge and Fellow in Music at St John’s College. A leading scholar of performance studies and nineteenth-century music, he is particularly renowned for his research on Chopin. Educated at Princeton, King’s College London, and Cambridge, his influential works include Chopin: The Piano Concer...

In this episode, I chat with Professor Esther Kurtz from Washington University of St. Louis Arts & Sciences. Professor Kurtz is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Director of Undergraduate Studies, affiliated with the Performing Arts Department and the Department of African and African-American Studies. Trained at Eastman, the Utrecht School of the Arts, and Brown University, she sp...

In this episode, I chat with Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach. Professor Leach is a distinguished musicologist and music theorist at the University of Oxford, specializing in medieval music and poetry - particularly from the fourteenth century. Her award-winning scholarship ranges from detailed manuscript studies to broader cultural and philosophical contexts, with notable works including Medieval Se...

In this episode, I chat with Professor Tom Collins. Professor Collins is an Associate Professor of Music Engineering Technology at the Frost School of Music and Principal Investigator of the Music Computing and Psychology Lab. His research focuses on developing and applying machine learning techniques for music-analytical and music-generative tasks, leading to collaborations with GRAMMY Award-winn...

In this episode, I chat with Dr. Frederick Harris. Dr. Harris is Director of Wind and Jazz Ensembles at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he leads the MIT Wind Ensemble, MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, and jazz chamber music programs. He founded It Must Be Now! , a multimedia project addressing racial justice through music and visual art, and co-leads an initiative linking Brazilian mus...

In this episode, I chat with Mr. Erik Ulman. Mr. Ulman is a Lecturer in Music at Stanford University whose compositions have been performed by renowned interpreters, including the Arditti Quartet, Claire Chase, and the Formalist Quartet. He studied composition with Brian Ferneyhough at UCSD and Helmut Lachenmann at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule, and has received distinctions including a Fromm Foun...

In this episode, I chat with Mr. Robert Clendenen. Mr. Clendenen is a composer, performer, and educator whose work spans experimental music, jazz, and rock. He has collaborated with Grammy-winning bassist Charlie Haden and opened for artists ranging from Frank Black to various jam bands, while studying composition with notable figures including Brian Ferneyhough, John Harbison, and Morton Subotnic...

In this episode, I chat with Professor Andrei Pohorelsky. Professor Pohorelsky is a musicologist specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, with a focus on American vernacular traditions and materialist approaches to musicology. His current book project, In Search of Ragtime , examines the genre’s role in shaping and reflecting American industrial capitalism from the Gilded Age throu...

In this episode, I chat with Dr. Keith Dodson. Dr. Keith Dodson is Director of Orchestral Activities and Assistant Professor of Conducting at Central Michigan University, where he leads the Symphony Orchestra and mentors future string educators. He is the founding Music Director of the Chamber Orchestra of the Smoky Valley and has guest conducted ensembles across the United States. A passionate ad...

In this episode, I chat with Professor Jesse Rodin. Professor Rodin is a musicologist and performer dedicated to bringing the sound world of the Renaissance to life through scholarship and performance. A professor at Stanford University, he directs the vocal ensemble Cut Circle and the Josquin Research Project, combining historical study with digital innovation. His books and recordings explore co...