Carlos Abril

Associate Professor, Music Education

c-abril@northwestern.edu - 847-467-1606
PhD, The Ohio State University
Recent Activity

General and elementary music education specialist. Research interests include the sociocultural nature of teaching and learning, music perception, and arts education policy. Author of chapters in several books and articles in journals such as Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, International Journal of Music Education, Journal of Research in Music Education, Music Education Research, Music Educators Journal, Contributions to Music Education, and Orff Echo. Co-editor of the book Musical Experience in Our Lives. Editorial board member of journals in the U.S. and Spain. Music arrangements and instructional materials published by World Music Press and Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. Certified in Orff Schulwerk and trained in Dalcroze Eurhythmics. Former general music and choral specialist for the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, where he received the Cervantes Outstanding Educator Award.

Stephen Alltop

Senior Lecturer, Conducting and Ensembles/Piano

swa440@northwestern.edu - 847-491-2299
DMus, Northwestern University
Recent Activity

Conductor, harpsichordist, and organist. Director of music, Alice Millar Chapel; harpsichord instructor, chamber music coordinator. Music director, Cheyenne and Elmhurst Symphony Orchestras, Apollo Chorus. Associate Conductor, Peninsula Music Festival. Winner, 2001 Community Orchestra of the Year (Elmhurst) and 1996 Programming of the Year Awards, Illinois Council of Orchestras. Guest conductor across the United States and in Italy. Performances as harpsichordist and organist with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Minnesota Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Baroque Ensemble, Omaha Symphony, and Symphony II. Recordings on Albany, Cedille and American Gramaphone.

Richard Ashley

Associate Professor, Music Theory and Cognition

r-ashley@northwestern.edu - 847-491-5720
DMusA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Coordinator, music theory and cognition program. Research and publications in music cognition focusing on expressive performance, musical communication, and long-term memory for music. President, Society for Music Perception and Cognition. Member, editorial board, Music Perception. Recipient of two Fulbright grants for research in the Netherlands and grants from National Endowment for the Humanities and U.S. Department of Education. Recipient, Bienen School of Music Exemplar in Teaching Award. Also teaches in the cognitive science program.

Linda Phyllis Austern

Associate Professor, Musicology

l-austern@northwestern.edu - 847-491-5705
PhD, University of Chicago
Recent Activity

Specialist in Renaissance and baroque musical-cultural relations, gender and feminist theory, European iconography, music as related to visual art and the early history of science. Recipient of major fellowships and research grants, including American Council of Learned Societies, British Academy, Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute (Radcliffe College/Harvard University), and National Endowment for the Humanities. Author, Music in English Children's Drama of the Later Renaissance (Gordon and Breach, 1992), Music in English Life and Thought 1550-1650 (forthcoming); editor, Music, Sensation and Sensuality (Routledge, 2002), editor, Music and the Sirens (Indiana University Press, 2006). Author of numerous articles and reviews in books and such journals as Journal of the American Musicological Society, Modern Philology, Music and Letters, and Renaissance Quarterly.