Yuri Funahashi
Associate Professor of Music; Co-Chair of Music
Music
Love to play an instrument or sing? Fascinated by the complexity that makes music simultaneously intricate and powerful?
The Music Department at Colby will give you opportunities to pursue your passion for music while enhancing your communication, analytic, writing, and reasoning skills.
About Music
Students work closely with professors—internationally recognized theorists, composers, performers, and musicologists—to investigate music in global, historical, and theoretical contexts. Courses encourage creative and critical thinking and emphasize music as an art form as well as a rigorous discipline. Students are exposed to music from a wide variety of past and present world cultures and can select courses in music history and theory, musicianship, performance, conducting, composition, world music, jazz history, American popular music, and African drumming.
The collaborative major in music and computation includes music and computer science courses allowing for focused study in computer-generated music and consideration of how it has shaped musical taste and culture.
Faculty
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Moon Young Ha
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
José Martínez
Assistant Professor of Music
Steven Nuss
Associate Professor of Music
Emmalouise St. Amand
Assistant Professor of Music
Natalie Zelensky
Associate Professor of Music; Co-Chair of Music
- Jonathan F. Hallstrom, Ph.D. (Oregon State, Iowa), 1984-2022, Associate Professor of Music, Emeritus
- Adel Heinrich, A.Mus.D., 1964-1988, Associate Professor of Music, Emerita; Director of Chapel Music, Emerita
- Eva Linfield, Ph.D., 1993-2008, Associate Professor of Music, Emerita
- Paul S. Machlin, M.A. ’87, Ph.D., 1974-2012, Arnold Bernhard Professor of Arts and Humanities, Professor of Music, Emeritus
- Dorothy Swan Reuman, M.A., 1966-1992, Associate Professor of Music, Emerita
- Steve Saunders, Ph.D., 1990-2024, James M. Gillespie Professor of Music, Emeritus
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