 Associate Professor of Music Professor Nuss received his Ph.D. in Music Theory in 1996 from the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York. A former orchestral
conducting fellow of the Aspen Music Festival and faculty member of the
Seishin International School and University in Tokyo, his published
research is a unique blend of Western and non-Western analytical
techniques and theoretical models of form and process. His most recent
work has appeared in Perspectives of New Music, The Musical Quarterly, Contemporary Music Review, Music Theory Spectrum, Theory and Practice, and analytical essays in A Way Alone: Writings on Tôru Takemitsu published by Academia Musicae, and in Locating East Asia in Western Art Music
published by Wesleyan University Press. Professor Nuss is currently at
work on a book that explores the intersections between musical and
religious thought, practice, and perception. He is a recent recipient
of grants from the Fulbright Foundation and the American Council of
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 The Arnold Bernhard Professor of Arts and Humanities, Professor of Music Professor Machlin teaches courses in jazz
history, European music history, American musical theater, American
popular music, and directs both the Colby College Chorale,
which he has led on tour in the US and Europe, and the Colby-Kennebec
Choral Society. He has also served as music director for numerous
musical theater productions at Colby. He has twice been awarded
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for his research on
the African-American jazz pianist Thomas "Fats" Waller, and he is the
author of two books about Waller: Stride: The Music of Fats Waller (1985), and Fats Waller: Performances In Transcription, a collection of transcriptions of several Waller solos and ensemble performances. The book is a volume in the series Music of the United States of America, a multi-volume set of monuments of American music.
A member of the Colby faculty for over 30 years, Professor Machlin
studied piano and conducting at Yale University, where he received his
B.A. with honors in music; he received the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in
music from the University of California at Berkeley. In his spare time,
he is an avid skier and canoeist (recreations that Maine is well-suited
to), and though his own kids are pretty skeptical about his chances for
success at it, he keeps trying to learn how to use the internet. |
Charles A. Dana Professor of Music
Steve Saunders teaches music history and theory. He has written numerous articles on sacred music of the early 17th century and on 19th-century popular song. His complete critical edition of the works of Stephen Foster was published by Smithsonian Institution Press, and his books on music in Vienna have been been issued by Oxford University Press and A-R Editions. He is also involved in the preparation of editions of the complete works of Alessandro Grandi. His articles have appeared in a variety of journals, including The Journal of the American Musicological Society, The Journal of Musicological Research, Music & Letters, MLA Notes, and Studien zur Musikwissenshaft. He has received fellowships and awards for his teaching and research, including grants from the Fulbright Commission, American Musicological Society, National Endowment for the Humanities, and American Council of Learned Societies.
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Associate Professor of Music
Professor Borgerding holds degrees in musicology from the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan, and returned to Colby in 2008 after being away for nearly a decade. A Renaissance specialist with a focus on music of the Iberian world, his books and articles address issues of religion, sexuality and rhetoric. He is editor of Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music (Routledge), and his articles appear in such journals as Musical Quarterly and, more recently, the collection Musical Childhoods and the Cultures of Youth (Wesleyan). His latest book, The Motet, Rhetoric and Religion in Renaissance Spain is forthcoming from the University of Rochester Press. In addition to teaching courses in music history, Professor Borgerding directs the Collegium Chamber Singers and Players, the early music ensemble at Colby. |
Associate Professor of Music
Jonathan Hallstrom teaches music theory and composition, conducts the Colby Symphony Orchestra and directs the multimedia studio. He has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Rockefeller, Exxon, and Sloan Foundations for his work in computer-generated sound and interactive multimedia and has been a featured composer at many national and international conferences and festivals, including SEAMUS, SCI, ICMC, The New Music America Festival, The Bourges "Sonneries Utopiques" festival and IRCAM's Portes Overtes series. from 1990-1995 served as Consulting Director for the Juilliard Music Technology Center. He has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Keele's Center for Music Technology in England and a visiting composer at The University of Lancaster (England), Marshall University, and Colgate University. As a conductor, Mr. Hallstrom has appeared in recent years with the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, the Keele (England) Symphony Orchestra, L’orchestre du Dixième (Paris), The Bangor Symphony Orchestra, The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra and The University of Iowa and University of Wisconsin New Music Ensembles. He has also appeared as a conductor/clinician at numerous high school orchestra festivals throughout the United States.
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 Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Pianist Yuri (Lily) Funahashi has performed
extensively in Europe, Japan, Canada and Australia and in many of the
major halls in the U.S. including the Kennedy Center, Orchestra Hall in
Chicago, the Music Center in Los Angeles, Jones Hall in Houston and the
92nd Street Y in New York City. She has also been heard on many college
campuses across the U.S. such as the Eastman School of Music, the New
England Conservatory, Harvard University, Goucher College, Bates
College, Kalamazoo College, Tulane University, Michigan State
University, University of Wisconsin, University of Louisville,
University of Connecticut and the University of Miami among others.
As
a member of the Festival Chamber Music of New York City, Funahashi
performs regularly in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall and has been a guest
artist at the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, the Vancouver Music
Festival, Sebago Long Lake Festival, the Windham Chamber Music
Festival, the Mediterranean Music Festival and Royal Viking’s Music
Festival at Sea. She has collaborated frequently with the Verdehr Trio,
has appeared in performances with the Brentano String Quartet and the
Cassatt String Quartet, and is co-founder and co-director of the Maine
Mountain Chamber Music series.
Born in Japan, Funahashi moved to
the U.S. at a young age with her family and received the Doctor of
Musical Arts degree from the Juilliard School. She has recorded for
Musical Heritage and John Marks Records. |
 Director of Band Activities
Mr. Thomas is the Director of Jazz and Wind Ensembles.
He received his Bachelor of Music degree from the New England
Conservatory of Music, and has previously conducted the Phillips
Academy Andover Jazz Band, the Phillips Academy Andover Concert Band,
and was a conducting assistant to Sarah Caldwell at the Opera Compnay
of Boston. In July, Eric was a guest at the Bravo! Colorado festival
and played clarinet in small chamber ensembles with Eugenia Zukerman
and Yolanda Kondanassis. |
 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Kariann Goldschmitt received her PhD in musicology
from the University of California, Los Angeles and an MA in Music:
Critical Studies/Experimental Practices from the Universisty of
California, San Diego. Kariann specializes in the art and popular music
from Brazil and from across Latin America as well as electronic dance
music, jazz, rock and hip hop. Her work also engages with literature on
world music, auditory cultures, urban studies, and the cultural
industries and creative economies in Latin America. She has presented
her research at national meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology as
well as the US Branch of the International Association for the Study of
Popular Music (IASPM-US). As a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, she is
teaching classes in non-Western music and expanding her dissertation to
consider the role of Japanese immigrants in the music scenes of major
Brazilian cities.Kariann plays the trumpet, electric bass, guitar, and
Brazilian percussion. |
Faculty Fellow in Music
Shannon Chase received her Ph.D. in Music in 2002 from the College of Music of The Florida State University, and a master of music in Choral Conducting from the University of Maine in 1999 under choral director Dennis Cox. After being away for nearly a decade, Chase returned to Maine to assume the position of assistant professor of music and Director of the Bowdoin Chamber Choir in the department of music of Bowdoin College. A former Associate Director of Choral Activities of the School of Music & Dance of the University of Oregon, Dr. Chase's conducting and performance spans youth, collegiate and adult community choirs. Her teaching, research, presentation and publication in the areas of choral music education, choral conducting and literature, and group voice technique have been presented nationally and internationally at the Conferences of ISME, MENC, NCCO and the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA).
Currently, Professor Chase is an active conductor and choral adjudicator for honor choirs and festivals in the U.S. and has held leadership positions on the boards of MENC and ACDA. Chase is co-founder and artistic director of the Vox Nova Chamber Choir, an adult vocal ensemble comprised of Bowdoin College faculty, alumni and midcoast Maine community musicians.
A faculty fellow and choral director in the department of music for the 2009-2010 academic year, Professor Chase will direct the Colby Chorale in three performance programs including an appearance in the Annual Service of Carols and Lights in December, a mid-winter full-length repertory concert entitled, People of Passion: A World in Song, and the Colby-Kennebec Chorale masterworks concert presenting Vaughan Williams'Dona Nobis Pacem in collaboration with the Colby Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Jonathan Hallstrom.
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Artist in Residence
Wynn Yamami is a taiko drummer and percussionist currently based in New York City. He has performed with a wide variety of musicians including Arturo O’Farrill and the Lincoln Center Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Badal Roy, Giovanni Hidalgo, Jason Kao Hwang, Sang Won Park, and Korn at such venues as the Knitting Factory, Barbès, Galapagos, Birdland, Issue Project Room, Vision Festival, Merkin Concert Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Central Park, and the Arthur Ashe Stadium.
He has performed taiko and percussion for theater and dance productions at the NYC Fringe Festival and the United Nations and has appeared in television commercials and programs for the US Open, Anime Network, Iron Chef, and MTV Unplugged. He leads the Japanese street music group HAPPYFUNSMILE, the experimental trio KIOKU, and regularly performs with SOH DAIKO, the TACHIBANA DANCE GROUP, and the Japanese gypsy rock group KAGERO. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Rutgers University, and Westminster Choir College, and received his Ph.D. in musicology from New York University in 2009.
As the artist in residence at Colby College, he will be teaching a course on Japanese and North American taiko, presenting two concerts, and working with the student ensemble. The blog TALKING TAIKO will be used as a resource within the classroom and ensemble settings.
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