Catherine Losada
Catherine Losada is Professor of Music Theory at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati. She has published articles, book chapters and reviews in top journals and with distinguished publishers in North America, Europe, and South America. Her research focuses on transformational theory, the musical collage, post-1950s music, the music of Pierre Boulez and the film music of Max Steiner. She was the winner of the 2016 Outstanding Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory and has served as president of Music Theory Midwest and as member of the Executive Board and co-chair of the Publication Awards Committee for the Society for Music Theory.
Rachel E. Mann
Rachel Mann is an associate professor of music theory at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and senior content developer for the NSF-funded, part-writing and analysis app, Harmonia by Illiac Software. Her research interests include the music and writings of exiled Catalan composer, Roberto Gerhard; DEIB issues in the theory classroom; and educational technology. Her work is published by Oxford University Press for the British Academy, Routledge, Cambridge Scholars Press, Ashgate, Salem Press, and the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy. She is a question leader for the College Board AP Music Theory Exam and she has been a featured guest on the Note Doctors and Picardy: Parallel Motion podcasts.
Brian Moseley
Brian Moseley is an associate professor of music theory at the University at Buffalo, specializing in 20th and 21st-century music, particularly the works of Anton Webern and Thomas Adès. His research explores topics such as surrealist automatism, time and memory in music, and the influence of Webern on contemporary composition. Moseley is a prolific scholar, with publications in leading journals like Music Theory Spectrum and the Journal of Music Theory, and contributions to award-winning edited collections. Active in music theory pedagogy, he co-authored the open-access textbook Open Music Theory and designed the innovative "Music Theory and Analysis" curriculum at UB, which integrates tonal theory with the study of diverse genres like rap, rock, and contemporary classical music. A dedicated member of the music theory community, Moseley has served in leadership roles for the Society for Music Theory and the Music Theory Society of New York State. Beyond academia, he is deeply involved in Buffalo's non-profit arts scene, serving on the boards of Buffalo String Works and Nusantara Arts.
Christoph Neidhöfer
Christoph Neidhöfer is Associate Professor of Music Theory at McGill University. His research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century music and eighteenth-century counterpoint. Recent and forthcoming publications include Ernst Kurth, Music Psychology, translated by Daphne Tan and Christoph Neidhöfer, edited by Daphne Tan (Routledge, 2022), a revised and expanded edition of the textbook Baroque Counterpoint co-authored with Peter Schubert (State University of New York Press, 2023), a collection of essays co-edited with Angela Carone on the music of Camillo Togni (Libreria Musicale Italiana, forthcoming), and articles in SMT-V and Music Theory Online.
Philip Stoecker
Philip Stoecker is Professor of Music at Hofstra University. His research interests include the music of Thomas Adès, Alban Berg, George Perle, and Arnold Schoenberg. His co-edited book with Edward Venn, Thomas Adès Studies(Cambridge University Press, 2021), was awarded the 2022 Outstanding Multi-Author Collection Award from the Society for Music Theory. He was awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend to support his revised edition of Schoenberg’s Fundamentals of Musical Composition. He served as Secretary of the Society for Music Theory (SMT), Co-chair of the Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Group of the SMT, and President of the Music Theory Society of New York State.
Joseph N. Straus
Joseph Straus is Distinguished Professor of Music Theory at the CUNY Graduate Center. With a specialization in music since 1900, he has written numerous technical music-theoretical articles and scholarly monographs on a variety of topics in modernist music, including Remaking the Past: Musical Modernism and the Influence of the Tonal Tradition (Harvard University Press, 1990), The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger (Cambridge University Press, 1995), Stravinsky's Late Music (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and Twelve-Tone Music in America (Cambridge University Press, 2009). He is also the author of Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory (4th ed., Norton, 2016).