New Faculty Profiles
March 20, 2009
Douglas Cohen
Douglas Cohen, lecturer, is the coordinator of music composition and the director of the Brooklyn College Composers' Forum. Cohen received a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Art and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Cohen is an intermedia composer, often collaborating with film, folk and performance artists to realize his work. Many notable musicians, including the California E.A.R. Unit and the pianist Anthony de Mare, have performed his compositions. In 1990 and 1992 he was composer in residence at the International Courses for Contemporary Music in Darmstadt, Germany. Cohen is a specialist in American experimental music with particular attention to the work of John Cage, Morton Feldman and Pauline Oliveros.
Jason Eckardt
Jason Eckardt comes to the conservatory with a doctorate from Columbia University (1998) after years of teaching at Columbia University, the Oberlin Conservatory, New York University, the University of Illinois, Rutgers University and Northwestern University. Eckardt is one of New York's leading composers and founder of the new music ensemble Ensemble 21. His critically acclaimed Ensemble 21 has earned a reputation for innovative programming and top-caliber performances, premiered over 30 works, and recorded for the CRI and Mode labels. Eckardt's areas of expertise include post-tonal analysis, extended instrumental and vocal techniques, and musical cognition and perception. In addition to composing, he has written on subjects ranging from applications of cognitive research in composition to Richard Serra's use of process from a musical perspective. His work has appeared in Perspectives of New Music, L'etincelle, Dansk Musik Tidsskrift, and Current Musicology.
Stephanie Jensen-Moulton
Stephanie Jensen-Moulton received her Ph.D. in musicology at the City University of New York, where she is also active in the Women's Studies Certificate Program. Her work has been published in Critical Minded: New Approaches to Hip-Hop Studies, edited by Ellie M. Hisama and Evan Rapport, and, most recently, in Sounding Off: Theorizing Music and Disability, edited by Neil Lerner and CUNY's Joseph N. Straus. Her dissertation focused on composer Miriam Gideon, a former conservatory professor. Jensen-Moulton teaches courses in American music history and women's music studies. She also serves as the conservatory’s new graduate deputy in music.
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