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Michael Berry is assistant professor of music theory and coordinator of undergraduate theory at Texas Tech.
He teaches undergraduate courses in harmony and aural skills and graduate classes in theory pedagogy, post-tonal
analysis, and analysis and performance. He also teaches courses in performance studies and rap music for the Honors
College at Texas Tech. Prior to his appointment at Texas Tech, he taught music theory, music appreciation, and
double bass at The College of New Jersey.
His current research focuses on music as performance and the music of Sofia Gubaidulina. He has presented at
numerous regional, national, and international conferences. Several articles on these topics are forthcoming in 2009.
He earned his doctorate in 2007 from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where his primary
teachers included Joseph Straus, William Rothstein, David Gagne, and Stephen Blum. His dissertation synthesizes
recent theories of voice leading and pitch spaces in order to examine the works of Messiaen, Debussy, Stravinsky,
and other early 20th-century composers.
Berry earned his bachelor's degree in double bass performance from Temple University, where he was a student of
John Hood. His Master's degree, also from Temple, is in music theory, and his primary teachers were Cynthia Folio and Michael Klein.
He remains active as a double bassist and is a member of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed
with the Roswell Symphony, Midland-Odessa Symphony, Big Spring Symphony, and the Amarillo Symphony. He is a former
member of the Allentown (PA) Symphony, and has played with numerous other orchestras in the Philadelphia area.
Click here for his personal website.
Click here for the TTU Theory Department Blog.
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