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Laura Dolp
Assistant Professor
Musicology (Program coordinator)
973-655-6883
DOLPL@mail.montclair.edu

Laura Dolp is a scholar of late nineteenth-century Austro-German music and visual arts who specializes in studies of the music of Mahler and the paintings of Klimt and Schiele. She is also studying the music of Arvo Pärt and its relationship to Eastern Orthodox iconography, the role of music in the novels of Willa Cather, and the relationship of music to modern dance in the choreography of Mark Morris. Her professional activities have included an event with the Spring Creek Project (Oregon) that is dedicated to dialogue between the environmental sciences and the humanities. She has led a workshop at Wellesley College that addressed the issue of listening, urban spaces and the natural world. She has served as editor of Current Musicology and on the Advisory Board of La Donne Musicale. She is a frequent speaker in the UK, Canada and the United States, most recently at the University of Montréal, University of Durham and University of Nottingham. Her awards have included a President's Fellowship at Columbia University and a DAAD scholarship at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin. She completed her B.A. at Mills College, M.A. at Boston University and received her Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from Columbia University.

Dean Drummond
Associate Professor of Music
Theory - Composition
Partch Institute, Director
Curator, Partch Instrumentarium
973-655-6984
drummondd@mail.montclair.edu
Dean Drummond - Newband Website

Dean Drummond attended the University of Southern California and California Institute of the Arts. He studied trumpet with Don Ellis and John Clyman, composition with Leonard Stein, and worked as musician for and assistant to the composer Harry Partch. He performed in the premieres of Partch's Daphne of the Dunes, And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma, and Delusion of the Fury, and on both Partch Columbia Masterworks recordings made during the late 60's. He has performed and recorded extensively with Newband, which he co-founded with flutist Stefani Starin in 1977, and served as director of the Harry Partch Instrumentarium and taught theory and composition with an emphasis on microtonal music. His music has been recorded on Innova, Mode, and Music and Arts, and performed throughout the world including at Avery Fisher, Alice Tully and Carnegie Hall in New York. He has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Library of Congress, and the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University. Drummond has produced and music-directed Harry Partch's The Wayward, Daphne of the Dunes, Oedipus, and his own The Last Laugh, a live film score for the silent film by F.W. Murnau. He has produced and performed on recordings of music by Harry Partch and John Cage and premiered new works by Cage, John Zorn, Muhal Richard Abrams, Lasse Thoresen, Mathew Rosenblum, Elizabeth Brown.  

Jeffrey Gall
Professor of Music
Voice (Voice Program Coordinator)
Music History
973-655-7213
gallj@mail.montclair.edu

Jeffrey Gall made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1988 - the first countertenor ever to sing at the Met. He sang Tolomeo in Handel's Giulio Cesare, and in 1994 returned to the Met for Britten's Death in Venice. He studied voice at the Yale School of Music with Blake Stern, and holds degrees in Slavic languages from Princeton and Yale Universities. He sang with such early music ensembles as the Waverly Consort and Pomerium Musices early in his career and then moved on to solo roles in Baroque and contemporary opera. He has sung principal roles at La Scala, Teatro San Carlo (Naples) and La Fenice in Italy; the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Salle Garnier in France; the Monnaie in Brussels; the Netherlands Opera; the Cologne and Frankfurt Operas in Germany; the Canadian Opera, as well as the Spoleto, Edinburgh, Innsbruck, Halle, Schwetzingen, and Bordeaux Festivals. In the United States he has sung at the San Francisco, Chicago Lyric, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, Dallas, Philadelphia, and Boston Operas, and has made many concert appearances at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, as well as at the Kennedy Center in Washington. He has recorded for CBS, Harmonia Mundi, Erato, Nonesuch, Titanic, and Smithsonian Records, and appears in the title role on the London video of Peter Sellars' production of Handel's Giulio Cesare. Prof. Gall has conducted clinics and master classes in both standard repertory and early-music techniques at music schools across the United States. In addition, he is a founding member of the Italian vocal ensemble Il Terzo Suono.

David Witten
Professor of Music
Piano ( Coordinator-Keyboard Studies)
Music History
(973) 655-4379
wittend@mail.montclair.edu
David Witten - Website

Pianist David Witten has performed extensively in Europe, Russia, and South America. As a 1990 Fulbright Scholar, he spent five months in Brazil. Witten has recorded piano music of various Latin American composers. Witten's involvement in music has not been limited to performance. He is editor of Nineteenth-Century Piano Music: Essays in Performance and Analysis (Garland, 1997), which includes his landmark analytical study of the Chopin Ballades. Born in Baltimore, Witten studied at Peabody Conservatory, and Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. His undergraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University led to a degree in Psychology. Later graduating with high honors from Boston University, he earned the D.M.A. degree in piano performance. Witten is currently Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at the Cali School of Music at Montclair State University.