2019-2020 University Committee and Tenure and Privileges Eastman School of Music Candidate Biographies

Matthew Brown Professor, , EMS

Matthew Brown was born in London and studied at the Royal College of Music J.D., King’s College (B. Mus.), and Cornell University (M.A., Ph. D.). He was a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University. Brown was a member of the Eastman faculty from 1986-1992 and rejoined the School in 1997. He has also taught at Harvard University (1986), Louisiana State University (1992-1997), the University of Texas at Austin (2003), and has been a member of the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory. Brown has been the recipient of numerous awards such as the Provost’s Interschool Interdisciplinary Award (), Summer Research Fellowship (LSU), Sage Graduate Fellowship (Cornell University), the Purcell Prize and Sambrooke Exhibition (King’s College, London). Over the past fifteen years, he has supervised fifteen Ph. D. dissertations. His advisees have won numerous external fellowships, including Presser, Fulbright, and Chateaubriand awards, and have positions at major universities, such as NYU, the University of Minnesota, the University of Arizona, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Alabama, and the Eastman School of Music. Brown’s publications include three books–Debussy’s ‘Ibéria’: Studies in Genesis and Structure (Oxford, 2003),Explaining Tonality: Schenkerian Theory and Beyond (Rochester, 2005), and Debussy Redux. The Impact of His Music on Popular Culture (Indiana, 2012)—as well as over thirty articles and reviews in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of , Nineteenth-Century Music, Journal of Music Theory, Music Theory Spectrum, Integral, Journal of Film Music, Science, New Harvard Dictionary of Music, Analyzing Opera, Understanding Rock, and elsewhere. https://www.esm.rochester.edu/faculty/brown_matthew/

Jonathan Dunsby Professor, Music Theory, EMS

Jonathan Dunsby graduated from Oxford and completed his music theory PhD at the at the age of 23. A laureate of a number of international piano competitions in earlier years, he went on to teach at King's College London, the University of Southern California, the University of Reading, and SUNY University at Buffalo, before joining Eastman https://www.esm.rochester.edu/faculty/dunsby_jonathan/ in 2007. He chaired Eastman Theory for six years, has served on many school committees, and was recently a member of the university's Public Safety Review Board advisory committee; and his public service includes having been a senior Magistrate in the UK (criminal and civil courts), and a Teaching Quality Assurance Agency subject specialist (performing arts). Founding editor of the journal Music Analysis, he has published books with Blackwell, CUP, Faber, and OUP, and articles in many leading journals. https://www.esm.rochester.edu/faculty/dunsby_jonathan/