BIOS
MUSICOLOGISTS
Professor Yayoi Uno Everett is a native of Yokohama, Japan. Her research specializes on the analysis of postwar art music through the perspectives of cultural studies, film studies, literary theories, semiotics, and East Asian aesthetics. She is currently working on a book on contemporary operas by Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun. Her recent publications include articles on Toru Takemitsu’s film music for Double Suicide (Journal of Film Music, forthcoming), Toshio Hosokawa’s Voiceless Voice for Hiroshima (Aracne, forthcoming), CD liner notes for Lei Liang: Brush-stroke (Mode Records 2009), György Ligeti’s opera Le Grand Macabre (Music Theory Spectrum 31/1, 2009), postwar Japanese avant-garde music (Sound Commitments: Avant-garde Music in the Sixties, ed. Robert Adlington, Oxford University Press, 2009), and gesture and calligraphy in Chou Wen-chung's late works (Contemporary Music Review 27/2, 2007). In addition, she authored a monograph entitled The Music of Louis Andriessen (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and co-edited the volume Locating East Asia in Western Art Music (Wesleyan University Press, 2004).
She is the recipient of the Society for Music Theory Subvention award and grants from the Japan Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Asian Cultural Council, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Woodruff Presidential Fund, University Research Committee (Emory University), Campus Research Board Funding (University of Illinois), Junior Faculty Development Award (University of Colorado), and scholarships from the Goethe Institute (Vienna, Austria) and the Aspen Music Festival. Prior to coming to Emory, she taught Music Theory at the University of Colorado (1992-99) and at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (1999-2000). She has also served on the Test Development Committee for the Advanced Placement in Music Theory (Educational Testing Service: Princeton, NJ) during 1997-2000. She is currently secretary for Music Theory Southeast and serves on the Executive Board for The Society for Music Theory.
Dr. Everett completed a B.A. at Lewis & Clark College; an M.A. at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and a Ph.D. at the Eastman School of Music in 1994.
Professor Choon Mee Kim is a world-renowned musicologist, active in the field of contemporary Korean music. Her books include The Socio-Cultural Structure of Musicology in Korea (1999), the Dictionary of Korean Contemporary Composers (joint authorship, 1999), A Hundred Years of West-Oriented Korean Music (joint authorship, 2002), and Gateway to the Study of Korean Contemporary Composers (2008). Ms. Kim’s positions include those of the Director of Korean National Research Center for the Arts, President of the Musicological Society of Korea, and Program Manager of the Korea Research Foundation, among others. Ms. Kim received her Doctorate in Musicology from the Michigan State University, and currently teaches in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Seoul National University.
Leta Miller's recent research focuses on mid-twentieth-century experimental music in the U.S. She has published two books on composer Lou Harrison, as well as a critical edition of his works in Music in the United States of America (MUSA). Since 2000, she has also published nearly two dozen articles on Harrison, John Cage, Henry Cowell, Charles Ives, and various aspects of music in San Francisco in journals including American Music, Twentieth-Century Music, the Journal of Musicology, Musical Quarterly, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, the Journal of the Society for American Music, and California History, as well as in numerous essay collections. Miller's current project is a large-scale study of San Francisco's musical life from 1906 to 1945. Earlier publications dealt with the sixteenth-century chanson and madrigal, music and science in the baroque, and the flute music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. As a performer, Miller has been featured on nearly twenty published solo recordings on renaissance, baroque, and modern flute. She has been awarded five recording grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Copland Fund, and three research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Miller is the current editor of the Journal of the Society for American Music.
Education: B.A. with great distinction (music): Stanford University, 1969; M.M. (music history): Hartt College of Music, 1971; Ph.D. (musicology): Stanford University, 1978.
John Robison is Associate Professor of Musicology and Collegium Musicum director at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He received his doctorate in musicology/performance practice from Stanford University in 1975, where he studied with George Houle, William Mahrt, Imogene Horsley, Herbert Myers, Stanley Buetens, and Leonard Ratner. The co-author of A Festschrift for Gamal Abdel-Rahim (Binational Fulbright Commission, 1993) and the author of Johann Klemm: Partitura seu tabulatura italica (A-R editions, 1998), his research interests include Renaissance lute music, German Renaissance composers, the development of the fugue, performance practices, and contemporary composers from diverse African, Asian and Latin American cultures. A versatile musician who performs professionally on plucked string, bowed string, and woodwind instruments, he has done numerous solo Renaissance lute recitals over the past thirty-five years, and also performs regularly on the viola da gamba, Renaissance/Baroque recorders, Renaissance double reeds (krummhorn, rauschpfeife, shawm, racket, curtal), Baroque oboe, and modern oboe/english horn. His articles on Renaissance, Baroque, and Twentieth-Century topics have appeared in various American, European and Asian journals, and his presentations as a scholar and a performer have taken him to many parts of Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. He created the world music survey course at the University of South Florida in the early 1990s, and also teaches a course on intercultural composers of the twentieth/twenty-first centuries. His current projects include a scholarly edition of the works of Jacob Meiland (1542-1577), a book on Indian composer John Mayer (1930-2004), and a book on contemporary Korean women composers that has recently been completed.