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, and 20th-century Britain. Articles and reviews published
in Eighteenth-Century Music, Sanctorum, Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia, Journal
of the Society for American Music,Heterofonía, BoletínMúsica (Havana)
and The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. 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 Seminario Nacional de Música en la
Nueva España y el México Independiente (National Seminar on the Music of
New Spain and Independent Mexico) at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México (UNAM). Monograph Music and Devotion in New Spain under contract
with Oxford University Press. Edition of the complete works of Santiago Billoni,
an 18th-century Italian composer in New Spain, forthcoming from A-R Editions
in the Recent Researches in Music of the Baroque series. Complete
thematic catalog of the music archive of Durango Cathedral, Mexico in preparation.
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 cultures; 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 Henry and Leigh Bienen 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 Bienen 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
Recent Activity
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.
