Randy Kinnett received his B.M. in Music Theory at Furman University and completed his M.M. and Ph.D. in Musicology at the University of North Texas. His dissertation, “‘Now His Time Really Seems To Have Come’: Ideas about Mahler's Music in Late Imperial and First Republic Vienna,” was written under the supervision of Margaret Notley. Dr. Kinnett’s research interests include twentieth-century music in central Europe before World War II, reception history, and interwar Viennese culture, and his work focuses especially on the music of Gustav Mahler and Alban Berg. He is a recipient of the AMS-SW Hewitt-Oberdörffer Award (2006) and the UNT Toulouse School of Graduate Studies Thesis and Dissertation Award (2008).

E-mail: randy.kinnett@unt.edu