Carlos Abril
Assistant 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
sociocultural issues in teaching and learning, music perception, and the elementary
music curriculum. Author of chapter in Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom and
articles in journals such as Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music
Education, Contributions, International Journal of Music Education, Journal
of Research in Music Education, Music Education Research, Music Educators Journal,
and Orff Echo. Editorial board member of CRME, Orff
Echo, Research & Issues in Music Education, and Update. 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
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
Recent Activity
Director, Music Cognition Lab.
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, 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
Specialist in Renaissance and baroque musical-cultural relations, gender and
feminist theory, 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, 2004, forthcoming). 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.
