Personae
- Personae
Australian musicologist JOEL CROTTY is affiliated with Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University and has published on 20th- and 21st-century Australian and Romanian art music. He has collaborated on a number publication and performance projects with Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea.
MAX ERWIN is a musicologist, composer, and lecturer at the University of Malta. His research is primarily focused on the European avant-garde. His writing has been published in Tempo, Music & Literature, and Revue belge de Musicologie, among others.
SUNNY KNABLE is a multi-faceted composer, pianist, and educator with numerous awards to his credit. Knable's music has been described as "great!" (The WholeNote), "genius" (Anchorage Press), "entertaining" (Audiophile Audition), "witty, romantic and lilting" (TheaterScene.net), offering up "sparks of color and inventiveness" (Sacramento Bee), and possessing a "wealth of thematic invention" (feastofmusic.com). Dr. Knable serves as Music Director of The Church-in-the-Gardens in Forest Hills, NY, and as Adjunct Assistant Professor at Queens College and LaGuardia Community College. Degrees obtained include a PhD from Stony Brook University, an MA from Queens College, and a BM from CSU Sacramento. Professional credits include his composition albums American Variations on Centaur Records and Song of the Redwood Tree on MSR Classics, and his bassoon works which are published by TrevCo-Varner Music.
ALISON MAGGART is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in Musicology at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on 20th-century music, in particular serial music and aesthetics, esotericism, spirituality in music, and U.S. identity. As a public musicologist, she has worked with the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Piatigorsky Archives.
JOSHUA BANKS MAILMAN has taught at Columbia University, NYU, U.C. Santa Barbara, and U. of Alabama. Notable performances include his audio-visual electro acoustic improvisational trio Material Soundscapes Collide (with Arthur Kampela and Rhonda Taylor) at the New York Philharmonic Biennial in 2016, John Cage's Ryoanji at the Miller Theatre in 2015, and the solo audio-visual Montreal Comprovisation No. 1 at Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice (ICASP) at McGill University in 2012. Besides presenting numerous times at the Society for Music Theory and European Music Analysis Conferences, Joshua Banks Mailman has also lectured on gagaku at the Japan Society (NYC), on metaphor and temporality at the Society for Music Analysis (UK), on Grisey's Vortex Temporum at IRCAM (Paris), and on flux and form for the Symposium (SIMPOM) of Brazilian Studies in Music (Rio de Janeiro). He researches form from flux: dynamic form, creates interactive audio-visual computer music, and writes on Schoenberg, Crawford Seeger, Carter, Babbitt, Ligeti, Lucier, Ashley, Grisey, Saariaho, and others, as well as metaphor, narrative, improvisation, and phenomenology. His writings appear in Music Analysis, Music Theory Spectrum, Sonic Studies, Tempo, Psychology of Music, Music Theory Online, Open Space Magazine, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, SMT-V, and Perspectives of New Music.
ABEL PAÚL is a Spanish composer of instrumental and electronic music. He studied composition at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and at the Berlin University of the Arts. He holds a PhD from the University of Huddersfield (UK). Paúl's music has been performed in Europe, America, Australia, Israel, and China by some of the leading contemporary music ensembles in the international arena. Currently, Abel Paúl teaches composition at Málaga's Higher Conservatory of Music (Spain).
Romanian composer and pianist LIVIA TEODORESCU-CIOCĂNEA is Professor of Composition at the National University of Music Bucharest and Adjunct Associate Professor, Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University. Her works include opera (The Lady with the Dog—after Chekhov), ballet (Le Rouge et le Noir) , symphonic (Archimedes Symphony), concerti, chamber, choral, and solo instrumental works. Her music has been performed across Europe, USA, Australia, and Asia. Toccata Classics and Move have published her recordings and Routledge (Contemporary Music Review 2003) one of her articles. She has written two books and has engaged in spectral music research, introducing a new musical poetics called hypertimbralism.
