Cho, Gene
Gene J. Cho
Regents Professor
Professor of Music Theory & Ethnomusicology
BS, Chung-Hsing University; MA, Bob Jones University; MCM, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; PhD, Northwestern University.
Email: Gene.Cho@unt.edu
Dr. Cho was a member of the Charter Editorial Board of Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, and is currently an editorial board member of Journal of Music in China (Los Angeles). He also serves as an External Examiner for Hong Kong Institute of Education. His publications include three monographs, three pedagogical manuals, a number of journal articles, a choral anthology, and several shorter composition-arrangements. Of particular note is his monograph The Discovery of Equal Temperament in China and Europe in the Sixteenth Century (Edwin Mellen Press, Spring 2003). His compositions and arrangements for voice, piano, ensemble, and orchestra have been performed in the United States, Europe, and Asia. His most recent commissioned original compositions include an incidental music for a stage play titled Confucius, and a musical setting of a literary tone poem, Abraham Lincoln: The Whole Heart, for orchestra, chorus, soli and narrators. His most recent monograph, Replica of the Art of the Lost Convenant, fuses religion studies with Japanese cultural history for an insightful glimpse into the interplay of new and old traditions.
In Fall 2009, Professor Cho published the Chinese language version of The Scholarship and Contribution of Zhu Zaiyu in the Cultural History, East and West (Beijing, China: Central Conservatory Press, 2009). He is the co-author, with Laila Kteily-O'Sullivan, of Passage to Musical Literacy: A Manual for Aural Skills (Kendall-Hunt, 2009). 
Cho has presented lectures, clinics and workshops in theory, conducting and composition in six countries outside the U.S. In addition, Dr. Cho teaches a sequence of courses in music and culture of China and Japan and directs field study programs to Asia. Most recently, he led an intensive study on the culture and music of the minority nationals in China's southern provinces. Dr. Cho is the faculty advisor to the College of Music's Asian Music Students Association (AMSA).