Jonathan Dunsby

Jonathan Dunsby is Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, where he was department chair during nine of the last two decades. He previously taught at King’s College London, the University of Southern California, the University of Reading, and SUNY University at Buffalo. In early years a student of Fanny Waterman, he was a prize winning pianist, Gold Medalist of the Commonwealth Competition, and laureate in the Geneva (bronze) and Munich (jury prize) International Competitions. He subsequently often appeared in international venues as collaborative pianist with Bulgarian violin virtuoso Vanya Milanova. Among his many publications are Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Performing Music: Shared Concerns (Oxford University Press, 1995), and Making Words Sing: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Song (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Recently, he was co translator, with Jonathan Goldman and Arnold Whittall, of Pierre Boulez’s Music Lessons: The Collège de France Lectures (Chicago University Press, 2018). He has published extensively in major journals. His WorldCat listing targets some 150 publications. Founding Editor of the journal Music Analysis in the 1980s, in 2009-12 he was President of the Music Theory Society of New York State.