Music Faculty

The Core, Associated, and Studio Faculties of the CGU Music Department are a group of musicians of outstanding pedigree and achievement. They bring to their teaching significant professional accomplishments in the fields of musicology, composition, and performance.The Music Department is composed of faculty whose appointments are directly in the department and who provide the majority of seminar teaching and serve as the students' primary advisors. Robert Zappulla, Peter Boyer, and Nancy Van Deusen hold faculty appointments in the Music Department.  

Peter Boyer, Helen M. Smith Chair in Music

B.A., Rhode Island College; M.M., D.M.A., The Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford; Graduate Certificate, University of Southern California; Doctor of Music (Honorary), Rhode Island College

Professor Peter BoyerProfessor Peter Boyer has emerged in recent years as one of the most frequently performed young American orchestral composers, whose music has been widely acclaimed by audiences and critics alike for its dramatic strength and evocative power. His orchestral works have received nearly 200 public performances, by more than 60 orchestras. He has conducted recordings of his music with two of the world’s finest orchestras, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia. His works have received national broadcasts by NPR in the U.S., and by radio networks throughout Europe and Australia. He has won six national competitions, including two BMI Awards, the First Music Carnegie Hall commission, and the Ithaca College Heckscher Prize. Orchestras which have performed his music include the Dallas Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Toledo Symphony, Hartford Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Kalamazoo Symphony, Santa Barbara Symphony, and many others. In 2004, Boyer completed a commission from the Pacific Symphony for a major work to celebrate its 25th anniversary season. The finale of this work, On Music’s Wings, conducted by Carl St.Clair, featured nearly 1,000 performers, including hundreds of children from throughout Orange County. Boyer’s major work Ellis Island: The Dream of America, which celebrates the American immigrant experience, has been his most successful composition to date. This work has been enjoying an extraordinary performance history, with over 85 performances by 40 orchestras from its debut in 2002 through the 2007-08 season, making it one of the most-performed large-scale American orchestral works of the last decade. Boyer recorded the work with the Philharmonia Orchestra and a cast of well-known actors, including Barry Bostwick, Olympia Dukakis, Bebe Neuwirth, and Eli Wallach. This recording was released by Naxos in its American Classics Series in 2005, has been broadcast extensively around the United States, and received a GRAMMY® Nomination for Best Classical Contemporary Composition. Boyer’s music has been praised in such publications as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA TODAY, CNN.com and Gramophone. Following the conclusion of his formal graduate studies, Boyer studied further with Academy Award-winning composers John Corigliano in New York and Elmer Bernstein in Los Angeles. In addition to his work in academia and for the concert hall, Boyer is active as a composer, orchestrator, and conductor in the film and television industry. He recently scored episodes of the TV series Engineering an Empire for The History Channel, and contributed orchestrations to the Paramount film Mission: Impossible III. Further information may be found on his personal website: PropulsiveMusic.com. 

 
Professor Peter Boyer
Music Department
School of Arts and Humanities
Claremont Graduate University
121 East Tenth Street
Claremont, CA 91711
Tel.: 909.621.8612
Fax: 909.607.1221
Email: Peter.Boyer@cgu.edu 

Nancy van Deusen, Louis and Mildred Benezet Chair in the Humanities

B.M., Houghton College; M.M. (Piano), MM. (Musicology, Music Theory), Ph.D., Indiana University

Professor Nancy van Deusen Professor van Deusen has published on music and institutional culture in medieval Rome, the cathedral milieu of 11th- and 12th-century France, and music in the history of ideas. Her most recent book, Music and Theology at the Early University (1995), explores the concept of a university, as well as music's place as an analogical bridge between the natural sciences and philosophy within that concept. Her current book project deals with the development of a notion and academic discipline of "folklore" and "folkmusic" during the course of the 19th century as a reinvention and retooling of significant medieval concepts. A musicologist and music theorist with ongoing interest in music analysis, van Deusen's work has intersected disciplines often kept apart on more conventional, standardized music faculties. Equally at home in "music theoretical" systems, analytical discourses, and historical issues, as well as historical anthropology, both her teaching activities and scholarly publications have transcended the boundaries between music theory, history, and practice within a cultural context. Professor van Deusen is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, and has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, several Fulbright Research Grants, and an American Philosophical Society Research Grant. Her teaching career has included positions at California State University, Northridge and the Institute for Musicology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. For further information you are invited to visit Professor van Deusen's online curriculum vitae.

 
Professor Nancy van Deusen
Music Department
School of Arts and Humanities
Claremont Graduate University
121 East Tenth Street
Claremont, CA 91711
Tel.: 909.621.8612
Fax: 909.607.1221
Email: Nancy.vanDeusen@cgu.edu


Robert Zappulla, Associate Dean; Fred W. Smith and Grace Hobson Smith Chair in Music; Department Chair

B.A., State University of New York, Stony Brook; M.A., M.M., Rutgers University; A.M., Duke University; Ph.D., Utrecht University

Professor Robert Zappulla Professor Zappulla is known primarily as a harpsichordist and scholar specializing in the field of historical performance practices. His book, Figured Bass Accompaniment in France, is a ground-breaking, comprehensive study of French accompaniment treatises produced during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, about which scholar David Ledbetter wrote (Early Music XXX/2), "...this book will take its place beside the works of Franck Thomas Arnold and Peter Williams...as a standard point of reference." He is editor of the music journal, Performance Practice Review, and consulting editor for Encyclopedia of the Harpsichord and Clavichord (2006). A former harpsichord pupil (as Fulbright Scholar) of Gustav Leonhardt, Robert Zappulla has appeared as soloist or continuist throughout North America and Europe, and he currently directs the early-music ensemble, Concordia Clarimontis, for which he also is harpsichordist (see "Early Music/Historical Performance Practice Faculty" below). He has played with many other local period instrumentalists and ensembles, including Con Gioia (in whose Centaur recording of J.S. Bach's concertos for one, three, and four harpsichords he performs in BWV 1063 and BWV 1065), the Angeles Consort, and the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra. For further information you are invited to download Professor Zappulla's current resume:

Download files of live, unedited recordings of Professor Zappulla's concerts at The Claremont Colleges:

 

Professor Robert Zappulla
Music Department
School of Arts and Humanities
Claremont Graduate University
121 East Tenth Street
Claremont, CA 91711
Tel.: 909.621.8612
Fax: 909.607.1221
Email: Robert.Zappulla@cgu.edu

Associated Faculty

The associated faculty of the Claremont Graduate University Department of Music comprise the music faculty at Pomona, Scripps, and Harvey Mudd Colleges, and the Claremont School of Theology, and they provide service to CGU Music in various ways, from teaching courses to guest lecturing, providing studio instruction, and serving on the advisory committees of CGU music students.

Prospective CGU students are requested to contact the CGU Department of Music, rather than members of the associate faculty directly, to discuss options regarding prospective teachers.

  • William Alves (Harvey Mudd College)
    B.S., B.M., Trinity University; M.M., D.M.A., University of Southern California
  • Graydon Beeks (Pomona College)
    B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
  • W. Jack Coogan (Claremont School of Theology)
    B.A., Pepperdine College; M.A., San Fernando Valley State College; Th.M., Th.D., Claremont School of Theology
  • Alfred Cramer (Pomona College)
    B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
  • Donna Di Grazia (Pomona College)
    B.A., M.A., University of California, Davis; Ph.D., Washington University
  • Preethi de Silva (Scripps College)
    A.R.C.M., Royal College of Music; L.R.A.M., Royal Academy of Music; A.D., Hochschüle für Musik; M.M.A., D.M.A., Yale University
  • Katherine Hagedorn (Pomona College)
    B.A., Tufts University; M.A., The Johns Hopkins University; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University
  • Hao Huang (Scripps College)
    B.A., Harvard University; M.M., The Juilliard School; D.M.A., State University of New York, Stony Brook
  • Genevieve Lee (Pomona College)
    B.M., Peabody Conservatory of Music; Diploma, Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris; M.M., M.M.A., D.M.A., Yale University.
  • Eric Lindholm (Pomona College)
    A.B., Princeton University; M.M. (Cello), M.M. (Conducting), Boston University; Artist Diploma, Yale University
  • Gwendolyn Lytle (Pomona College)
    B.A., Hunter College; M.M., New England Conservatory
  • William J. Peterson (Pomona College)
    B.A., B.M., Oberlin College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Studio Faculty

Faculty providing studio instruction are drawn from the Claremont Colleges, as well as from the outstanding pool of musicians in the greater Los Angeles area. For instruments not specified below, CGU draws on the talents of other highly qualified Los Angeles-area musicians.

Prospective CGU students are requested to contact the CGU Department of Music, rather than members of the studio faculty directly, to discuss options regarding prospective teachers.

  • Gayle Blankenburg, piano
    B.M., M.M., Perf. Cert., Indiana University
  • Kira Blumberg, viola
    B.M., Boston University; M.M., The Juilliard School
  • Stephen Gothold, conducting
    M.A., Occidental College; D.M.A., University of Southern California
  • Mary Beth Haag, voice
    B.A., Hope College; M.M., University of Illinois
  • Rachel Huang, violin
    B.A., Harvard University; D.M.A., State University of New York, Stony Brook
  • Ursula M. Kleinecke, voice
    B.M., University of the Pacific; M.M., Eastman School of Music
  • Roger Lebow, violoncello
    M.M., University of Southern California
  • Norman Ludwin, double bass
    B.F.A., California Institute of the Arts; M.M., California State University at Northridge; D.M.A., Claremont Graduate University 
  • Sergey Martinchuk, piano
    Artist Diploma, Ukraine Crimean Music Academy; M.M., University of California at Los Angeles; D.M.A., University of California at Santa Barbara
  • Jorge Mester, conducting
    M.S., The Juilliard School
  • Janice McVeigh, voice
    B.A., Hamline University; M.A., Claremont Graduate University
  • Todor Pelev, violin
    B.M., Sofia Conservatory; Perf. Cert., The Juilliard School; M.M., Eastman School of Music
  • M. Anne Rardin, violin/viola
    B.A., M.M., Eastman School of Music; D.M.A., University of Southern California 
  • Carey Robertson, organ
    B.A., California State University, Northridge; M.M., D.M.A., University of Southern California
  • Rachel Rudich, flute
    B.A., Goddard College; M.M., D.M.A., Manhattan School of Music
  • Jack Sanders, guitar
    B.F.A., M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
  • David Washburn, trumpet
    B.M., University of Southern California; M.M., New England Conservatory
  • Edward Zeliff, composition
    B.F.A., California Institute of the Arts; M.A., D.M.A., Claremont Graduate University

 

Early Music/Historical Performance Practice Faculty

Members of CGU's resident early-music ensemble, Concordia Clarimontis (Robert Zappulla, director).

Prospective CGU students are requested to contact the CGU Department of Music, rather than members of the Early Music/Historical Performance Practice faculty directly, to discuss options regarding prospective teachers.

  • Janet Beazley, Renaissance/Baroque flute/recorder
    B.M., M.A., D.M.A., University of Southern California
  • Raymond Burkhart, natural trumpet
    B.A., Occidental College; M.M., University of Southern California 
  • Carol Lisek, voice
    B.A., Towson State University; M.A., Johns Hopkins University; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts; D.M.A., University of Southern California
  • M. Anne Rardin, Baroque violin/viola
    B.A., M.M., Eastman School of Music; D.M.A., Universtiy of Southern California
  • Robert Zappulla, harpsichord
    B.A., State University of New York, Stony Brook; M.A., M.M., Rutgers University;
    A.M., Duke University; Ph.D., Utrecht University
  • Daniel Zuluaga, lute/theorbo/guitar
    B.M., M.M., Indiana University 
  • Shanon Zusman, viola da gamba/violone
    B.A., Loyola Marymount University; M.A., D.M.A., University of Southern California

Emeriti Faculty

  • Roland Jackson, Professor of Music, Emeritus
    B.M., M.M., Northwestern University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
  • Helen M. Smith, Professor of Music, Emerita
    B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., Indiana University
  • Frank Traficante, Grace H. and Fred W. Smith Professor of Music, Emeritus
    B.M., M.M., Carnegie-Mellon University; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Contact information for associated, studio, and emeriti faculty is on file in the Arts and Humanities office, and can be obtained on request from the faculty support secretary.