Faculty

Karen Desmond

Department Chair; Undergraduate Advisor, History Track and Cultural Studies Track

Associate Professor of Music

781-736-3329 kdesmond@brandeis.edu Slosberg Music Center, 237

Expertise: History of music notation, late medieval French and English music and theory, paleography, music and ideas, digital editions, digital musicology.

Mark Berger

Viola, Lydian String Quartet

Associate Professor of the Practice of Music

781-736-3211 mberger@brandeis.edu Slosberg Music Center, 222

Expertise: Chamber music, contemporary performance techniques, music theory, music analysis, counterpoint, composition.

Eric Chafe

(on leave fall 2021 – spring 2022)

Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Music

781-736-3334 chafe@brandeis.edu Slosberg Music Center, 218

Expertise: Music of Monteverdi, Bach, Wagner, seventeenth-century music, postromantic music, twentieth-century music, analysis.

Yu-Hui Chang

Director of Graduate Studies in Composition and Theory

Professor of Composition

781-736-3317 ychang@brandeis.edu Slosberg Music Center, 225

Website: yuhuichang.com

Expertise: Composition, theory and analysis.

Eric Chasalow

(on leave fall 2021 – spring 2022)

Irving G. Fine Professor of Music

781-736-3312 chasalow@brandeis.edu Slosberg Music Center, 236/Kutz, 219

Website: ericchasalow.com

Expertise: Composition, analysis, electronic and computer music.

Robert Duff

Undergraduate Advisor, Vocal Performance Track; Conductor, University Chorus and Chamber Singers

Associate Professor of the Practice of Music

781-736-3324 rduff@brandeis.edu Slosberg Music Center, 210

Expertise: Choral music, conducting, vocal pedagogy, vocal repertoire.

Judith Eissenberg

Director, MusicUnitesUS; Violin, Lydian String Quartet

Professor of the Practice of Music

781-736-3315 eissenberg@brandeis.edu Slosberg Music Center, 126

Expertise: Chamber music performance and analysis, world musics.

Emily Frey

Director of Graduate Studies in Musicology

Assistant Professor of Music

781-736-3321 eafrey@brandeis.edu Slosberg Music Center, 216

Expertise: Music of the "long" nineteenth century; Russian music, literature, and cultural history; history of opera; music and literature; music, politics, and law; Romanticism and realism; voice studies; music criticism; operatic acting.

Erin Gee

(on leave fall 2021) Undergraduate Advising Head (spring 2022)

Associate Professor of Composition

781-736-3335 eringee@brandeis.edu Slosberg Music Center, 220

Website: erin-gee.com

Expertise: Composition, theory and analysis.

Joshua Gordon

Undergraduate Advisor, Instrumental Performance Track

Cello, Lydian String Quartet; Professor of the Practice of Music

781-736-3338 gordon@brandeis.edu Slosberg Music Center, 126B

Expertise: Chamber music, teamwork and ensemble interaction, performance psychology and preparation for concerts and auditions, music appreciation and understanding (theory, structure, character, expression, ear training, rhythm, intonation), educational outreach.

Neal Hampton

Conductor, Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra

Associate Professor of the Practice of Music

781-736-3328 hampton@brandeis.edu Slosberg Music Center, 235

Official Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra Website

Expertise: Conducting, musical theater composition, jazz history.

Sarah Mead

Undergraduate Advising Head (fall 2021) (on leave spring 2022)

Director, Early Music Ensemble; Professor of the Practice of Music

781-736-2935 mead@brandeis.edu Slosberg Music Center, 229

Website: nb-viols.org

Expertise: Historical performance practice, sixteenth-century music theory, viola da gamba, lyra-viol, renaissance ensembles, Baroque chamber music, choral conducting.