Graduate Students at the Center for Schenkerian Studies
COLIN DAVIS is a Doctoral student in music theory at the University of North Texas. He holds a B.M. in music theory and a piano performance certificate from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.M. in theory from UNT. He is a teaching fellow at UNT and is currently serving as the editor of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies.
JOHN HEIMEL is currently a Doctoral theory student at UNT.He holds a B.M. in Church Music from Westminster College and a M.M. in Theory from the Hartt School. Priot to UNT, he studied organ with John Walker and Raymond Ocock and theory with Patrick Miller, Akane Mori, and Michael Schiano.He also participated in master classes with David Craighead, Lynn Davis, Andrew Fletcher, and Marilyn Keiser.Before moving to Texas, he served as Director of Music and Organist at several churches in the New York City area as well as teaching private piano lessons.Current research interests include Schenkerian Theory and the music of Mendelssohn and Franck.Professional memberships include the Society for Music Theory, the College Music Society, and the American Guild of Organists.
DAVID HUFF is currently pursuing a master's degree in music theory at the University of North Texas. In addition to his coursework, he works as a supervisor in the UNT music library and a teaching assistant in the department of Theory, History & Ethnomusicology. David teaches freshman music theory courses and has recently worked as a graduate research assistant to Dr. Stephen Slottow on a project related to the development of Schenkerian analysis in the United States. An avid performer of experimental popular music, his interests include Schenkerian analysis, post-tonal theory, and the history of music theory.
HEEJUNG KANG was born in Seoul, Korea, and studied at the Seoul Music and Art High School for musically gifted teenagers. She graduated with the highest honors from the College of Music, Ewha Woman�s University in Seoul and later at the same university she earned her Master�s Degree in Piano, receiving the Ewha Graduate Research Fellowship Scholarship. Currently a Doctoral Candidate in Piano at the University of North Texas, she studies piano with Dr. Pamela M. Paul. In 2002, She has made a recording of �Rediscovered Lieder and Piano Pieces by Kletzki, Oppel, and Schenker,� sponsored by Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Jewish Federation, and College of Music at UNT. In addition, she has studied Schenkerian Analysis with Dr. Timothy L. Jackson and Dr. Stephen Slottow, as well as privately with Carl Schachter, Distinguished Professor, the Graduate Center, City University of New York and the Mannes College of Music. Ms. Kang is currently preparing a recording of Reinhard Oppel�s piano music with the Toccata Record Label in England and completing her doctoral dissertation on Rachmaninoff.
JONG KYUN KIM comes from South Korea, where he completed work on a bachelor's degree in music composition at KyngHee University in Seoul in 1997.Additionally, he received his master's degree in music theory/musicology at KyungHee University in 2001, with the thesis:"A Study on the Signs of Meaning and its Application for Semiotics in Music."As a graduate music theory student at the University of North Texas, Mr. Kim has distinguished himself with his interests in applications of Schenkerian theory to contemporary music, as well as semiotics and meaning in music.His main mentors at UNT include Dr. Timothy Jackson and Dr. Davis Schwarz.In Korea, Jon Kyn served as a memeber of Republic of Korea Navy Symphony Band and as a member of the Seoul Baroque Choir.
JENNIFER AMY SADOFF, M.M. University of North Texas, B.A. Chicago Musical College is a doctoral student in music theory at the University of North Texas. Originally from Chicago, Ms. Sadoff's main interests in the field of music theory center around Schenkerian pedagogy. Her master's thesis:"Die Neue Lehre: An On-Line Course in Schenkerian Analysis," presented a unique interactive web-based platform for disseminating the Schenkerian dialectic in conjunction with her main professor, Dr. Timothy Jackson.Ms. Sadoff has presented her work at international scholarly conferences throughout the United States, such as: Institute for Music Research (2001), Texas Distance Learning Association (2002), and has published an article on an early bassoon treatise, which can be found in the spring, 2002 issue of The Double Reed.
Jennifer Sadoff is responsible for developing a unique methodology for typesetting Schenkerian graphs using Graphire’s Music Press software.She serves as the editor of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies.
Ms. Sadoff actively plays in the period instrument groups on Baroque bassoon, and is a founding member of the period instrument group, Femme 415 (two Baroque flutes, Baroque bassoon).She was awarded the Toulouse Doctoral Fellowship for 2001-2002, as well as the Walter E. Gribbon Award, granted by the American Musical Instrument Society in 2001 and 2002.
RENÉ PÉREZ TORRES is pursuing a Ph.D. in Music Theory at the University of North Texas where he also serves as a Teaching Fellow. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from the Veracruz Institute of Technology (Mexico) and his Master’s of Music from UNT with his thesis Bach’s Mass In B Minor: An Analytical Study Of Parody Movements And Their Function In The Large-Scale Architectural Design Of The Mass. A keyboard specialist and a pianist by training, his interest in basso continuo has led him to the study of harpsichord and baroque performance practice. In music theory his main mentors include Timothy Jackson, Stephen Slottow and Graham Phipps; and Lenora McCroskey and Brad Benight in harpsichord. He is the 2002 winner of the first prize in arranging for the national music competition “La música mexicana en la intimidad de la música de cámara” in Mexico, and has received several national awards for his choral and instrumental arrangements in Mexico as well. In addition he was awarded as the Undergraduate Outstanding Student in Music Theory in 2002 and 2003 at UNT and is recipient of the Robert Ottman scholarship for the academic year 2006-2007.
CHIA-YING (CHARLES) WU is a graduate student in the Master of Music program in Music Theory at the University of North Texas. He is currently the circulation manager of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies.