Alan Darling

Coach/Accompanist, Voice and Opera

Royal Academy of Music, University of Michigan

Former faculty member, Yale University. Currently also serving as faculty for Lyric Opera Centger for American Artists. Accompanied singers in recitals throughout North America and Europe. Regular participant in the Ravinia Festival.

Drew Edward Davies

Assistant Professor, Musicology

dedavies@northwestern.edu - 847-467-3367
PhD, University of Chicago
Recent Activity

Specialist in 16th- through 18th-century musics of Latin America and Iberia in global contexts. Articles and reviews published in Eighteenth-Century Music, Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia, Heterofonía, and The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, an essay collection from Oxford University Press. Dissertation “The Italianized Frontier: Music at Durango Cathedral, Español Culture, and the Aesthetics of Devotion in Eighteenth-Century New Spain” received the 2006 Wiley Housewright Award from the Society for American Music. Mexico City Regional Coordinator for MUSICAT, the National Seminar on the Music of New Spain and Independent Mexico (Seminario Nacional de Música en la Nueva España y el México Independiente) at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Edition of the complete works of Santiago Billoni, an 18th-century Italian composer in New Spain, forthcoming from A-R Editions. Complete thematic catalog of the music archive of Durango Cathedral, Mexico in preparation. Drafting a monograph on music and religious culture in New Spain. Frequent collaborator with early music ensembles and recent presenter at academic conferences throughout the USA, and in Mexico, the UK, Spain, Cuba, Poland, and Japan. Research interests include Spanish viceregal/colonial arts and culture; historiography; cultural studies; medieval music; post-Tridentine church music; 20th-century English art song.

Bernard J. Dobroski

John Evans Professor of Music, Music Education

bjdobroski@northwestern.edu - 847-491-5716
PhD, Northwestern University

Former dean of the Northwestern University School of Music (1990-2003) and dean of the University of Oregon School of Music (1986-1990). Tubist, keyboard performer and music educator. Former member of the United States Navy Band in Washington, D.C. Other activity as author/editor, conductor, impresario, and in fundraising/marketing in higher education. Currently teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in the School of Music, as well as in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

Richard Drews

Assistant Professor, Voice

r-drews@northwestern.edu - 847-491-3939
BSEd, MMus, University of Nebraska

Coordinator, Voice and Opera Program. Tenor. Active performer; international career as soloist, recitalist, and operatic singer. Performances with Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Atlanta Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, and many other companies throughout the United States and Canada. Winner, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Former member, Lyric Opera Center for American Artists.