Baird Lecture Series
Sumanth Gopinath, Associate Professor of Music at the University of Minnesota, delivered a talk on Prince.
Through the Baird Lecture Series, the UB Department of Music hosts regular lectures, talks, and master classes given by distinguished visiting scholars, performers, and composers throughout the academic year.
Talks take place in Baird Recital Hall at 3:30 p.m. on Thursdays, and are free and open to the public.
2024-2025 Lecture Series
September 19, 2024
Miriam Piilonen, "Charles Darwin vs. Herbert Spencer: Reconsidering a Historic Debate about the Evolutionary Origins of Music."
October 10, 2024
Martha Feldman, “Vocal Deliriums."
October 24, 2024
Join us for an engaging deep dive into the groundbreaking works of Arnold Schoenberg and Helmut Lachenmann, with insights from Professors Brian Moseley and Ming Tsao, plus a chance for Q&A after each session.
Postponed - Daphne Brooks, “Rhapsody & Ruin: Porgy & Bess and the Story of America.”
November 21, 2024
Slee Visiting professor Nina Young will give a lecture presentation of her work.
February 20, 2025
Roger Grant, “The Colonial Galant Style: Eighteenth-Century Music from Chiquitania, Bolivia."
March 13, 2025
Pianist Philip Somononick will give a lecture presentation and performance of Hindemith's "Ludus Tonalis."
March 27, 2025
Clara Latham, "Music from Invisible Strings: Mediating Reproductive Labor with the Theremin."
April 17, 2025
Steven Rings, What Did You Hear, My Blue-Eyed Son?: On the Musical Sources for "Hard Rain."
May 1, 2025
"Works-In Progress" Professors Stephen Guerra and Brian Moseley will present current research projects in progress. Stephen Guerra, “A New New-World Harmonic Schema." Brian Moseley, "John Dowland, Thomas Adès, and Surreal Recomposition in Music."
Our seminars promote open and frank discussions that generate insights which have been extremely useful in shaping how I perceive my role and craft as a composer.
Igor Coelho A.S. Marques, PhD in Composition
Upcoming Lectures
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Previous Lecturers
| Zachary Bernstein | Assistant Professor | Eastman School of Music |
| Mark Evan Bonds | Professor | UNC Chapel Hill |
| Andre Bregegere | Lecturer | CUNY Queens College |
| Seth Brodsky | Associate Professor | University of Chicago |
| Tim Carter | Professor | UNC |
| Theodore Cateforis | Associate Professor | Syracuse University |
| Richard Cohn | Professor | Yale University |
| John Covach | Professor | Eastman School of Music |
| Suzanne Cusick | Professor | NYU |
| Jim David | Professor | SUNY Fredonia |
| Mary Davis | Professor | Case Western University |
| Todd Decker | Professor | Wachington University in St. Louis |
| Jonathan Dunsby | Professor | Eastman School of Music |
| Kyle Gann | Professor | Bard College |
| Charles Garrett | Professor | University of Michigan Ann Arbor |
| Lydia Hamessley | Professor | Hamilton College |
| Berthold Hoeckner | Professor | University of Chicago |
| Mark Katz | Professor | University of North Carolina |
| Michael Klein | Professor | Temple University |
| Lawrence Kramer | Professor | Cornell University |
| Adam Krims | Professor | University of Nottingham |
| Richard Leppert | Professor | University of Minnesota |
| Tamara Levitz | Professor | UCLA |
| Judy Lockhead | Professor | SUNY Stony Brook |
| Roger Moseley | Professor | Cornell University |
| Andre Mount | Associate Professor | SUNY Potsdam |
| Tiffany Naiman | Thinking Matters Fellow | Stanford University |
| Catherine Nolan | Professor and Dean of Graduate Studies | Western University, Ontario |
| Judith Peraino | Professor | Cornell University |
| Benjamin Piekut | Professor | Cornell University |
| Iann Quinn | Professor | Yale University |
| Steven Rings | Associate Professor | University of Chicago |
| Colin Roust | Associate Professor | University of Kansas |
| Anthony Shepherd | Professor | Williams College |
| Mary Simonson | Associate Professor | Colgate College |
| Elaine Sisman | Professor | Columbia University |
| Decatur Smith Stephen | Associate Professor | SUNY Stony Brook |
| Robynn Stilwell | Professor | Georgetown University |
| Robert Walser | Professor | Case Western University |
| Holly Watkins | Professor | Eastman School of Music |