Michael Berry

Michael Berry is assistant professor of music at Texas Tech University. He is finishing a Ph.D. in music theory at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He holds the Master’s and Bachelor’s Degree of Music from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Prior to this appointment he taught at The College of New Jersey in Trenton, NJ.

His dissertation develops a theory of voice leading for music that inhabits non-mod-12 pitch-class spaces. Current research centers on Sofia Gubaidulina, rap music, and pedagogy.

Berry is active as a freelance double bassist and is a member of the Lubbock Symphony.

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