CAREER REVIEW

• 2006- Dean, School of Music (interim)
• 2001- Professor of Music, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
• 1991- 2001 Associate Professor of Music, DePauw University
• 1985-91 Assistant Professor of Music, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
• 1983-85 Music Librarian, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
• 1980-81 Administrative Assistant, Norddeutsche Orgelakademie, Bunde, West Germany
• 1980-81 Continuo player for the professional baroque ensemble, Fiori Musicali, Berlin/Bremen, West Germany

CAREER REVIEW (church music)

• 1999-2005 Alto in the professional Choir of Men and Boys, Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis, Indiana.
• 1998-1999, 2005-2006 Director of Music, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Greencastle, Indiana.
• 1997-98 Director of Music, Pleasant View Lutheran Church, Indianapolis, Indiana (position shared with wife)
• 1986-94 Director of Music, Calvary United Methodist Church, Brownsburg, Indiana.
• 1981-85 Director of Music, McKendree United Methodist Church, Norfolk, Virginia.
• 1974-77 Organist/Choirmaster, First Presbyterian Church, Huron, Ohio.
• 1972-73 Organist, Camellia Baptist Church, Norfolk, Virginia.

EDUCATION

• 1981-82 Göttingen Universität, Göttingen, West Germany (made possible by a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service) Supervisor: Wolfgang Boetticher.
• 1978-80 Oxford University , Oxford, England: D.Phil. in Music­ (permission to confer degree: 16 Oct. 1984; degree conferred in persona: 24 Jan. 1987). Dissertation: Keyboard Intabulations Preserved in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century German Organ Tablatures: A Catalogue and Commentary, revised and reprinted in the series, Outstanding Dissertations in Music from British Universities, John Caldwell, ed. (New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1989)
• 1977-78 Norddeutsche Orgelakademie, Bunde, West Germany: study of the keyboard literature of the 15th-18th centuries on original instruments of the North German area (made possible by a fellowship from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation). Major teachers: Harald Vogel, Klaas Bolt.
• 1973-77 Oberlin College Conservatory of Music : B.Mus. with a double major in Music History and Organ Performance. Thesis: The Keyboard Canzoni of Claudio Merulo: A Study of Intabulation and Ornamentation in Sixteenth-Century Italy.

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

Online Publications:

• The Madras Season of 2003/04: A Searchable Database of Featured Ragas, Composers, and Compositions
• "Vocal Compositions in German Organ Tablatures, 1550-1650: A Searchable Database"
• "In the Trenches with Johann and Caspar Plotz: a rediscovered Gebrauchstabulatur from the Scheidt Circle"

Print Publications:

• Orphei Organi Antiqui: Essays in Honor of Harald Vogel, editor (Seattle: Westfield Center for Keyboard Studies, 2006).
• "Tablature" and "Ems/Dollart Region" in The Organ: an Encyclopedia, edited by Douglas Bush and Richard Kassel ( New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 170-172, 555-558.
• A review of William Jackson’s Songs of Three Great Indian Saints (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) in Religious Studies Review, vol. 26/3 (July 2000), p. 300.
• Keyboard Intabulations by Heinrich Scheidemann, 3 vols., (Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen Verlag, 1990-1993).
• "A Keyboard Diminution Manual in Bártfa Ms. 27: Keyboard Figuration in the Time of Scheidt" in Church, Stage, and Studio: Music and its Contexts in Seventeenth-Century Germany (Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1990), pp. 279-347.
• Vocal Compositions in German Organ Tablatures, 1550-1650: A Catalogue and Commentary in the series Outstanding Dissertations in Music from British Universities (New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1989).
• "The Sixteenth-Century Organ: Some Thoughts and Resources," in The American Organist, vol. 23/4 (April 1989), pp. 60-63.
• "New German Organ Tablature: Its Rise and Demise," in Charles Brenton Fisk: Essays in his Honor (Easthampton, Mass.: The Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies, 1987), pp. 93-109.
• A review of Clyde William Young's Ottavio Bariolla: Keyboard Compositions (Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, 1986) in Music and Letters, vol. 68/4 (October 1987), pp. 395-396.
• A review of Charles Jacob's new edition of Elias Nicolaus Ammerbach's Orgel oder Instrument Tabulaturbuch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984) in Music and Letters, vol. 67/1 (January 1986): pp. 95-97. Reprinted in The Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies' Early Keyboard Studies Newsletter, vol. 2/3 (June 1986). pp. 8-9.
• "Intabulation Reconsidered," Early Keyboard Studies Newsletter, vol. 2/3 (June 1986), pp. 1-4.
• A review of Thomas Warburton's Keyboard Intabulations of Music by Josquin des Prez (Madison: A-R Editions, Inc.: 1980) in Music and Letters, vol. 65/1 (January 1984), pp. 110-112.
• "Buxtehude Festival at Westfield Center," in The Diapason (July 1981), p. 8.
• "A Modern Approach to the Historic Organ," in Early Music, vol. 8/2 (April 1980), pp. 173-77.

Recordings:

• Complete organ works of Heinrich Scheidemann (6 CDs) played on historic organs of the time by Calcante Records (recorded with Claudia Heberlein Johnson). Interview about this project on National Public Radio's "Harmonia" (May 14, 2005).

Papers Read:

• 7/2006 “ The State of the Pipe Organ in South Asia Today” at the national convention of the American Guild of Organists (Chicago, IL)
• 6/2006 “Orphei Organi Antiqui: Conception and Contents” Westfield Center for Keyboard Studies “J.S. Bach and Central/South European Influences” ( Victoria, B.C.)
• 11/2005 “The First ‘All-India’ Music Conferences and the Advent of Modern Indian Musicology” at the annual conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology ( Atlanta, GA)
• 3/2005 “The First ‘All-India’ Music Conferences and the Advent of Modern Indian Musicology” at the conference “Music’s Intellectual History: Founders, Followers, and Fads,” the first conference of the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (New York, NY)
• 3/2005 “Early Fingering” for the Indianpolis Chapter of the American Guild of Organists
• 4/2004 “Popular Ragas in Contemporary Carnatic Performance” at the annual conference of the ASIANetwork, Lisle, IL
• 2/2003 "The Victorian Organ in Colonial and Post-Colonial India" at the conference, "The Organ in Context" of the British Institute of Organ Studies, University of Reading.
• 6/2000 "Teaching with Technology: The Roles People Play." at CLAC2000 (Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges), DePauwUniversity/Wabash College.
• 1/2000 "Virtual Vienna: On-Campus Preparation for Off-Campus Study" at the conference, "Best Practices in International Studies," of the Indiana Consortium for International Programs, Indianapolis, IN.
• 8/1998 "In the Trenches with Johann and Caspar Plotz: a rediscovered Gebrauchstabulatur from the Scheidt Circle" at the Göteborg International Organ Academy, Göteborg University, Sweden
• 8/1994 "From Motet to Organ Intabulation" at the Göteborg International Organ Academy, Göteborg University, Sweden (cancelled because of sickness)
• 4/1993 "In the Trenches with Johann and Caspar Plotz: a rediscovered Gebrauchstabulatur from the Scheidt Circle" at the annual meeting of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (St. Louis) The paper is the result of work supported by a 1992 Summer Stipend for Exploratory Research and a 1993 Fisher Time-Out.
• 11/1990 "The Keyboard Intabulations of Heinrich Scheidemann" at the Organ in Music History conference, University of California, Berkeley.
• 4/1989 "The Keyboard Intabulations of Heinrich Scheidemann" at the Midwest Regional meeting of the American Musicological Society, Oberlin College.
• 6/1987 "A Keyboard Diminution Manual in Bartfa Ms. 27: Keyboard Figuration in the Time of Scheidt" at Wellesley College in a conference entitled "From Scheidt to Buxtehude: German Music in the Seventeenth Century"sponsored by the Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies.
• 1/1987 "The Rise of the Basso Continuo Practice in Seventeenth-Century Germany" to the Graduate Music Society of Oxford University.
• 10/1986 "Vocal Compositions in German Organ Tablatures: A Catalog in Progress" at Northwestern University for the Fall meeting of the AMS Midwest Chapter.
• 6/1986 "The History of Intabulation" and "The Keyboard Performance of Vocal Music in the Sixteenth Century" at Wellesley College in a conference entitled "Renaissance Splendor: The Organ and its Music in Sixteenth-Century Europe" sponsored by The Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies, New England Conservatory of Music, and Wellesley College.

Miscellaneous:

• 2001-02 Organ consultant to the Diocese of Madras (Church of South India)
• 2000 Guest Curator for Emison Art Center exhibit, "Music to My Eyes: Musical Instruments as Visual Art"
• 1998-2001 Member of the GLCA "Mellon Global Partners Project" (Global Network Resources task force)
• 6/1994 Panel on the career of German organbuilder/restorer Jürgen Ahrend at a meeting of the American Organ Academy (at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley) (cancelled because of sickness)
• 3/1987 "Intabulation: the Significance of an Insignificant Genre" at Indiana State University in its Colloquium/Seminar Series in Music

EXTERNAL GRANTS (numerous DePauw University grants are not listed):

• American Institute of Indian Studies and the National Endowment for the Humanties to fund one-year sabbatical in South India (study of Carnatic vocal music, research into the Indian harmonium, and the historical roots of Indian musicology)
• Indiana Network for the Development of India Awareness to fund a five-week study trip to South India (1999)
• Andrew J. Mellon Foundation, for technological enhancements in my course, "Vienna: Its Culture and History.
• Lilly Endowment, Inc., Open Faculty Fellowship to fund a one-year sabbatical in Germany focusing on historic organs in northern Germany (1994/95)
• Lilly Endowment, Inc., grant for developing a new course, "Introduction to Performance Practice" (1989)
• National Endowment for the Humanities, grants for attending summer institutes "Joseph Haydn and the Culture of the Hapsburgs," Rutgers University (1989) "Theory and Practice of 16th-Century Music," Newberry Library (1987)
• German Academic Exchange Service, fellowship for doctoral research in Germany (1980/81)
• Thomas J. Watson Foundation, fellowship for organ study in Germany (1977/78)

PERSONAL

• Date of birth: November 3, 1955
• Marital status: divorced
• Hobbies: watercolors, bookbinding, aerobic training, reading German literature
• Home address: 425 Anderson St. Greencastle, IN 46135
• Work Address: School of Music, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN 46135
• Phone: (765) 247-9569 (home); (765) 658-6732 (work) Fax: (317) 658-4042