Jeannie Guerrero

Introduction

Jeannie Ma. Guerrero has an A.B. from The University of Chicago (Classical Languages and Literatures) and a B.M. from the Eastman School of Music (Music Theory; primary instrument: piano). She received her A.M. and Ph.D. in Music Theory from Harvard University. One of her specialties, and the subject of her dissertation, is the interaction and fusion of text and music in the choral works of the socially-engaged composer Luigi Nono. Guerrero's secondary area of interest is historical musicology, including 14th- and 15th-century Italian music.

Her liberal arts background and approach is reflected in the variety of honors, grants, and related professional experiences that she brings to Eastman. These include presentations and publications on topics from medieval and Latin American music and composers to the works of Nono, Schoenberg, and contemporaries of J.S. Bach.

From 2001-2003, Guerrero was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard in the Music Department. She has also been a private piano teacher, accompanist, and coach, and was a member of the choirs at King's Chapel in Boston and at Rockefeller Chapel in Chicago.

"Tintoretto's Perspectival Spaces and Nono's Canonic Expanses," submitted for publication

"The Listener's Quest For Meaning In Luigi Nono's Spatial Music," submitted for publication

"Serial Intervention in Nono's Il canto sospeso ," Music Theory Online 12.1

"Multidimensional Counterpoint and Social Subversion in Luigi Nono's Choral Music," Theory and Practice 28 (2003), 53-78

Concert notes for the Boston Conservatory: Rimsky-Korsakov's Polonaise from Christmas Eve , Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5, Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, Borodin's In the Steppes of Central Asia , Elliott Carter's Elegy, 2003

"Latin American Composers in the United States Press," commissioned by the University of California Press and the Ojai Music Festival, 2001

"Bach's Contemporaries," in Wolff, Christoph, ed., Johann Sebastian Bach: "The Man from Whom All True Musical Wisdom Proceeded." A 250th Anniversary Exhibition (President and Fellows of Harvard College), 2000

"Tintoretto, Nono, and Expanses of Silence," presented at the Dublin International Conference on Music Analysis, Trinity College, Dublin, 2005

"Multidimensional Counterpoint and Social Subversion in Luigi Nono's Choral Music," presented at the meetings of the Music Theory Society of New York State, the New England Conference of Music Theorists, and the Society for Music Theory, 2003

"'Do, Re' mi fa Nono," paper presented at Harvard University, Eastman School of Music, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, St. Lawrence University, Swarthmore College, and the University of Michigan, 2003-2004

"Unraveling an Enigma: Towards a Modernist Engagement of Schoenberg's Opus 15/I," presented at conferences of the Indiana University Graduate Theory Association and the Graduate Association of Music and Musicians at the University of Texas, 2002

WORKS IN PROGRESS

"Francesco's Dream: Scholastic Elements in Landini's Three-Voice Ballate "

"A Tale of Two Florentines: New Attributions for Four Anonymous Fourteenth-Century Ballate "

"A New Look at Machaut's Rose, lis "

Luigi Nono: The Music to 1960

"Architecture and Music," Session Chair with A. Krista Sykes (Rhode Island School of Design), Society of Architectural Historians 2007 Meeting

HONORS AND GRANTS

Professional Development Grant, Eastman School of Music, for research at the Archivio Luigi Nono, 2005

Emerging Scholar Award, Music Theory Society of New York State, 2003

Gladys Krieble Delmas Grant for Independent Venetian Research, for research at the Archivio Luigi Nono, 2002

John Knowles Paine Travelling Fellowship, for participation in a residential seminar on medieval music in Dozza, Italy and dissertation research in Salzburg, Austria, 2002

Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (Harvard), 2002-2003, 2001-2002, 2000-2001

Wesley Weyman Grant, for participation at a Nono conference in Venice, Italy, 2001

Nino and Lea Pirrotta Research Grant, for dissertation research at the Archivio Luigi Nono in Venice, Italy, 2001

Department of Music Travel Grant (Harvard), for exploratory research in Florence, Italy, 1999

Middlebrook Fellowship, 2000

Thorvald Otterstrom Memorial Scholarship, 1999-2000

Constance McGlinchee Fellowship, 1998-1999

DEPARTMENT OF THEORY, EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC

Text and Music Throughout the Ages (PhD/DMA seminar)

Topics in 20th-Century Analysis and Literature (DMA requirement)

Survey of Analytical Techniques (MM requirement)

Analysis and Performance (DMA seminar)

Freshman Theory

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Tonal Analysis (for majors)

Fundamentals of Music Theory I (for non-majors)

Music Theory I (primarily for majors)

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Harvard University, Music Theory, 2003

A.M. Harvard University, Music Theory, 2001

B.M. (Highest Distinction), Eastman School of Music, Theory, 1998

A.B. (Honors), University of Chicago, Classical Languages and Literatures, 1993

DISSERTATION

"Text-Setting Techniques in Luigi Nono's Choral Works, 1956 to 1960," Adviser: David Lewin Abstract

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

Session Chair, Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Pittsburgh, PA, 2007

Session Chair, Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Cambridge, MA, 2005

DMA Exam Committee, Eastman School of Music, 2004-2006

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Eastman School of Music, 2004-2007

Founder and Conference Chair, "Progressions, Regressions, and Digressions" (a multidisciplinary music conference at Harvard), 2002-2003

Treasurer of the Graduate Music Forum (Harvard), 2002-2003

Participant, Seminari festivi di Jacopo da Bologna (residential seminar in Dozza, Italy), 2002, 2003

Graduate Student Representative at Music Department meetings (Harvard), 2000-2001

Student Colloquium Committee (Harvard), 2000-2001

Member and contributor to program notes, Boston Cecilia, 2000-2003

Private piano teacher, 2000-2002

Accompanist, Advanced Choral Conducting (Harvard), 2001; Holden Chapel Choir (Harvard), 2001; Individual coaching (Chicago), 1991-1995

Professional singer, King's Chapel (Boston), 2001; Rockefeller Chapel (Chicago), 1993-1995

SOCIETAL MEMBERSHIPS

Member, Society for Music Theory

Member (2005-2008), Committee on Diversity, Society for Music Theory

Treasurer (2004-2008), Music Theory Society of New York State

New England Conference of Music Theorists

Nono Analytical Society of America (NASA)