Faculty — Music History
Laura Dolp Prof. Laura Dolp is Associate Professor in Music History at the Cali School of Music. Her interdisciplinary research interests embrace a variety of topics, from late nineteenth-century Austro-German music and visual arts to the music of Arvo Pärt and Orthodox iconography. Currently, she is working on a book-length study of the historical relationship between cartography and the musical score. Her other interests include the relationship of music to modern dance, in the choreography of Mark Morris. Prof. Dolp is a frequent speaker in North America and Europe. Her articles are featured in 19th-Century Music, Journal of Musicological Research, Naturlaut and Muzykaand she has been awarded a President’s Fellowship at Columbia University and a DAAD scholarship at Humboldt–Universität in Berlin. She received her Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from Columbia University.
Dean Drummond Dean Drummond attended the University of Southern California and California Institute of the Arts. He studied trumpet with Don Ellis and John Clyman, composition with Leonard Stein, and worked as musician for and assistant to the composer Harry Partch. He performed in the premieres of Partch's Daphne of the Dunes, And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma, and Delusion of the Fury, and on both Partch Columbia Masterworks recordings made during the late 60's. He has performed and recorded extensively with Newband, which he co-founded with flutist Stefani Starin in 1977, and served as director of the Harry Partch Instrumentarium and taught theory and composition with an emphasis on microtonal music. His music has been recorded on Innova, Mode, and Music and Arts, and performed throughout the world including at Avery Fisher, Alice Tully and Carnegie Hall in New York. He has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Library of Congress, and the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University. Drummond has produced and music-directed Harry Partch's The Wayward, Daphne of the Dunes, Oedipus, Delusion of the Fury, and his own The Last Laugh, a live film score for the silent film by F.W. Murnau. He has produced and performed on recordings of music by Harry Partch and John Cage and premiered new works by Cage, John Zorn, Muhal Richard Abrams, Lasse Thoresen, Mathew Rosenblum, Elizabeth Brown.
Jeffrey Gall Jeffrey Gall made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1988 - the first countertenor ever to sing at the Met. He sang Tolomeo in Handel's Giulio Cesare, and in 1994 returned to the Met for Britten's Death in Venice. He studied voice at the Yale School of Music with Blake Stern, and holds degrees in Slavic languages from Princeton and Yale Universities. He sang with such early music ensembles as the Waverly Consort and Pomerium Musices early in his career and then moved on to solo roles in Baroque and contemporary opera. He has sung principal roles at La Scala, Teatro San Carlo (Naples) and La Fenice in Italy; the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Salle Garnier in France; the Monnaie in Brussels; the Netherlands Opera; the Cologne and Frankfurt Operas in Germany; the Canadian Opera, as well as the Spoleto, Edinburgh, Innsbruck, Halle, Schwetzingen, and Bordeaux Festivals. In the United States he has sung at the San Francisco, Chicago Lyric, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, Dallas, Philadelphia, and Boston Operas, and has made many concert appearances at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, as well as at the Kennedy Center in Washington. He has recorded for CBS, Harmonia Mundi, Erato, Nonesuch, Titanic, and Smithsonian Records, and appears in the title role on the London video of Peter Sellars' production of Handel's Giulio Cesare. Prof. Gall has conducted clinics and master classes in both standard repertory and early-music techniques at music schools across the United States. In addition, he is a founding member of the Italian vocal ensemble Il Terzo Suono.
David Witten Pianist David Witten has performed extensively in Europe, Russia, and South America. As a 1990 Fulbright Scholar, he spent five months in Brazil. Witten has recorded piano music of various Latin American composers. Witten's involvement in music has not been limited to performance. He is editor of Nineteenth-Century Piano Music: Essays in Performance and Analysis (Garland, 1997), which includes his landmark analytical study of the Chopin Ballades. Born in Baltimore, Witten studied at Peabody Conservatory, and Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. His undergraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University led to a degree in Psychology. Later graduating with high honors from Boston University, he earned the D.M.A. degree in piano performance. Witten is currently Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at the Cali School of Music at Montclair State University.
Justin Burton
Justin Burton is a musicologist specializing in contemporary US popular music and posthuman theory. He received a PhD in historical musicology from Rutgers University in 2009 and currently teaches at Montclair State University, Rider University, and Rutgers University. He also serves as web editor for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US Branch and works as a freelance forensic musicologist. He has forthcoming publications in the Journal of Popular Culture and Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, and he is working on a book project titled AudioFiles: Hybrid Identity in Popular Music.
Adjunct Professor Music History 973-655-7212 dohoneyr@mail.montclair.edu Ryan Dohoney is a music historian specializing in American modernism, experimentalism, and interdisciplinary performance since 1950. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 2009. He teaches music history at Montclair State University, Columbia, and the New School for Social Research. His current book project is titled The Illusion of Feeling: Morton Feldman and the Rothko Chapel Project. Johanna Frymoyer Niko Higgins Rebecca Y. Kim |
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