BA, Harvard; MA, PhD, Chicago. Piano study with Kate Friskin, Longy School. Editorial Board member, Journal of Musicological Research, Ad Parnassum: A Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music ; senior editor, Eastman Studies in Music; music editor, Encyclopedia of New York State. Faculty associate, University of Rochester’s Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies. Author, Music, Musicians, and the Saint-Simonians and Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections. Co-editor, Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860. Music criticism, musicological articles, and reviews on American musical life and on Berlioz, Liszt, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, Loeffler, Copland, Virgil Thomson, Bernstein, and other composers in Cambridge Opera Journal; Fontes artis musicae; Revue française de musicologie; 19th-Century Music; Journal of the American Musicological Society; Opera Quarterly; MLA Notes; Pendragon Review; Journal of the American Liszt Society; Mendelssohn and Schumann Essays; Music in Paris in the 1830s; Music and Society: The Early Romantic Era; Les Saint-Simoniens et L’Orient; En travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera; The Work of Opera; The Nineteenth-Century Symphony; Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking Truth to Power; Liber Amicorum Isabelle Cazeaux; Liszt and His World; Musique, esthétique et société au xixe siècle; Händel’s Opern: Das Handbuch; International Musicological Society (IMS) Conference Proceedings (1982, 1992, 1997); New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; New Grove Dictionary of American Music; New Grove Dictionary of Opera; New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers; New Harvard Dictionary of Music; American National Biography; Encyclopedia of New England Culture; Dictionnaire Berlioz (Prix de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts); Dictionnaire de la musique en France au xixe siècle (MLA Vincent H. Duckles Award); and Encyclopaedia Britannica. Scholarly adviser to the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and Bard SummerScape. Recipient, Galler Prize (1980), MLA Prize for bibliography (1981), ACLS Fellowship (1983), National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (1988), National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2006-7), American Musicological Society and Society for American Music Society Publication Subventions (1986, 1997), Bridging Fellowship (1990), Music and Letters Award (2002), ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award (1992, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007). H. Colin Slim Award (American Musicological Society, for 2005 article on Aida), Ruth Solie Award (American Musicological Society, for 2009 book in which he authored a chapter on Spanish music in Bizet’s Carmen), Faculty member, Eastman (1975-).
National Association of Schools of Music
FACULTY RECORD REPORT
(Required for each full-time and part-time faculty member)
Institution Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
Name Douglas Lowry Date June 30, 2012
Rank (check one): None Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor
Instructor Teaching Assistant Other (check “None” if no rank system exists)
Tenure Status Tenured Tenure-track Non-tenured
Date of Appointment 1 August 2007
Nature of Assignment Full-Time Part-Time – please indicate the fraction (e.g., ½, ¼, etc.)
Level of Teaching(check all that apply): Non-Degree-Granting – Elementary/Secondary Non-Degree-Granting – Postsecondary
FieldBachelor of MusicUniversity of Arizona1974Theory and CompositionMasters of MusicUniversity of So. California1976Trombone PerformanceMasters of MusicUniversity of So. California1978Orchestral Conducting B. Teaching Assignment
1. If you give instruction in applied music in individual lessons, please supply the following information:
I teach (e.g. , piano, voice, composition) . This term, I devote
clock hours to this type of teaching each week.
2. Please supply the following for lecture or ensemble courses you teach regularly over a three-year period. Include non-credit courses.
NASM Faculty Record Report Eastman School of Music 2012
Douglas Lowry
Joan and Martin Messinger Dean of the Eastman School of Music
Professor of Conducting and Ensembles
Douglas Lowry began his tenure as sixth dean of the Eastman School of Music on August 1, 2007. Prior to his arrival at Eastman, he served for 7 years as Dean and Thomas James Kelly Professor of Music at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. While in Cincinnati, Lowry was a periodic host of WVXU’s Around Cincinnati, a radio series focusing on the arts and entertainment in the Greater Cincinnati area. He also served on the boards of the Cincinnati Symphony, Cincinnati Opera and the School for Creative and Performing Arts. He continues to serve on the board and co-chair the artistic directorate of the American Classical Music Hall of Fame. Previously he served as Associate Dean and Chair of the Conducting Department at the Flora L. Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California.
As a composer, Lowry has written for a wide variety of media. Recent commissions and premieres include works for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Louisville Orchestra, Cincinnati Playhouse, St. Louis Repertory Theater, the CCM Chamber Players in performance at the University of Michigan, and the Cincinnati Pops. His compositions appear on recordings issued by Summit Records and BIS.
Born in Spokane, Washington in 1951, Lowry holds degrees in composition, conducting and music performance from the University of Arizona and the University of Southern California.
He serves on the boards of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and Rochester’s Mercury Opera.
National Association of Schools of Music
FACULTY RECORD REPORT
(Required for each full-time and part-time faculty member)
Institution Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
Name Macey, Patrick Date June 30, 2012
Rank (check one): None Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor
Instructor Teaching Assistant Other (check “None” if no rank system exists)
Tenure Status Tenured Tenure-track Non-tenured
Date of Appointment 1 July 1985
Nature of Assignment Full-Time Part-Time – please indicate the fraction (e.g., ½, ¼, etc.)
Level of Teaching(check all that apply): Non-Degree-Granting – Elementary/Secondary Non-Degree-Granting – Postsecondary
Associate Baccalaureate Masters Doctoral
Administrative Position (if applicable):
Education and Training
Degrees, Diplomas, etc.InstitutionDate Completed
or ExpectedMajor FieldMinor FieldBachelor of ArtsOccidental College1973PhilosophyBachelor of ArtsCalifornia State Univ., Fullerton1976MusicMaster of ArtsUniv. of California, Berkeley1978MusicDoctor of PhilosophyUniv. of California, Berkeley1985Music
B. Teaching Assignment
Please supply the following for lecture or ensemble courses you teach regularly over a three-year period. Include non-credit courses.
Course Number and TitleHours Credit
Per TermClock Hours of
Teaching Per WeekFall: MHS 590: Symphony: 1800-190031 hr. 50 min.Fall: MHS 590: Mass: Chant to Stravinsky31 hr, 50 min.Fall: MUY 590/591: The Motet 1470-15503 or 42 hrs. 50 min.Spr: MHS 422: Music in the Renaissance31 hr. 50 min.MHS 290: Independent Study (1 in F11)31 hr.MUY 593: Directed Study I
(3 in F09; 2 in F10; 1 in S11; 1 in F11)4None. Only entered grades from instructorsMUY 594: Directed Study II
(1 in F09; 3 in S10; 2 in S11; 1 in F11; 1 in S12)4None. Only entered grades from instructorsMUY 595: PhD Dissertation Project
(5 in F09;9 in S10; 7 in F10; 6 in S11; 6 in F11; 5 in S12)As chair, entered grades for instructors; supervised 2 dissertations: 2 hrs.Reader for DMA doctoral essay (S11 Jonathan Wessler)1 hr.Biography and Curriculum Vitae
Biography on reverse side of this sheet.
Curriculum Vitae available on site.
NASM Faculty Record Report Eastman School of Music 2012