Faculty and Staff
Administration
Christina Dahl, Chairperson
Erika Honisch, Director of Graduate Studies
Deborah Heckert, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Joanna Kaczorowska, Director of Undergraduate Performance
Composition
Matthew Barnson, Composition, Theory & Musicianship
Nirmali Fenn, Composition, Theory & Musicianship
Perry Goldstein, Composition, Theory & Musicianship
Margaret Schedel, Composition, Computer Music & Theory
Daria Semegen, Composition, Theory & Electronic Music
Daniel Weymouth, Composition, Computer Music & Theory
Critical Music Studies
Margarethe Adams, Kazakhstan and Northwest China, temporality, popular culture, Islam in Central Asia
Kevin Holt, 20th and 21st Century American popular culture, hip hop studies, Africana studies,
performance studies, intersectionality
Erika Supria Honisch, 16th- and 17th centuries, historical sound studies, historiography of Central Europe
Judith Lochhead, 20th- and 21st centuries, history and theory of contemporary musics, music and philosophy,
post-phenomenological approaches to music analysis, gender studies
Ryan Minor, 19th-century musical cultures, opera studies and dramaturgy, performance studies,
Wagner, nationalism
August Sheehy, history of music theory and analysis, jazz and improvisation, music theory and politics
Stephen Decatur Smith, 19th- and 20th centuries, musical modernism, music and philosophy - especially the
Frankfurt School and German Idealism
Benjamin Tausig, Thai and Southeast Asian music, sound studies, politics and protest movements
Deborah Heckert, Lecturer, British Music Studies; the Discipline of Writing
Graduate Performance
| Piano Gilbert Kalish, Piano Christina Dahl, Piano Early Music Arthur Haas, Harpsichord Strings Philip Setzer, Violin Arnaud Sussmann, Violin Jennifer Frautschi, Violin Hagai Shaham, Violin Matthew Lipman, Viola Lawrence Dutton, Viola Colin Carr, Cello Blake Hinson, Double Bass Nancy Allen, Harp Voice Brenda Harris, Voice Jeremy Little, Voice Conducting and Opera Studies Daniel Beckwith |
Winds and Brass Jazz Studies |
Undergraduate Performance
Joanna Kaczorowska, Violin
Pablo Luis Lavandera, Piano
Undergraduate Studio Teachers
Peter Auricchio, Trumpet
Nikhil Bartolomeo, Clarinet
Ujjal Bhattacharyya, Percussion
Robert Catinella, Bass
Julietta Curenton, Flute
Sarah Ghandour, Cello
Daniel Guedes, Violin
Culley Hamstra, Trombone
Nathan Huvard, Guitar
Nicole Karrs, Voice
Caitlin McKechney, Voice
Alejandro Salaverry, Horn
Liuh-WenTing, Viola
Calvin Hu, Piano
Charlotte Hill, Piano
Laura Saldanha, Piano
Ensemble Directors
JB Gnonlonfoun, VOLTA West African Music Ensemble
Shoshana Hershkowitz, Stony Brook Chorale and Camerata Singers
Susan Deaver, University Orchestra
Justin R. Stolarik, Wind Ensemble
Alan Kay, Director Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra
Arthur Haas, Baroque Ensemble
Eduardo Leandro, Contemporary Chamber Players
Ensemble-in-Residence
Emerson Quartet
Eugene Drucker, Violin
Philip Setzer, Violin
Lawrence Dutton, Viola
Paul Watkins, Cello
Staff
Germaine Berry, Secretary to the Chair and Undergraduate Studies
Monica Winchell, Graduate Program Coordinator
Ford Fourqurean, Director of Concerts, Publicity, and Social Media
Susan Kaiserman, Receptionist
Thomas Malenich, Piano Technician
Nicholas Nelson, Audio Engineer
Martha Ruth Zadok, Administrator, ATC
Emeritus Professor
Sarah Fuller, Medieval & Renaissance History & Theory
Peter Winkler, Composition, Theory & Popular Music
Timothy Mount,Director of Choral Studies
Richard Kramer, 18th and 19th Century Music History and Theory
David Lawton,Stony Brook Opera, Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra, History-Theory (19th-century opera)
Sheila Silver, Composition & Theory
Affiliated Scholars
Carol K. Baron, History & Theory