Gene Cho, Regents Professor of Music, has been on the UNT faculty since 1972. He received his Ph.D. degree (music theory) from Northwestern University. His earlier education included science and economics, as well as theology, church music, conducting and composition.

His most recent publication is The Replica of The Ark of the Covenant in Japan: The Mystery of Mi-fune-Shiro (iUniverse; winter 2008), which represents a bold reinterpretation of history on the missing articles from the Ark of the Covenant of the ancient Israelites, that these most sacred items (or their replica) in monotheistic Judaism are preserved to this day within the great shrines of Japan. His other notable publication includes The Discovery of Musical Equal Temperament in China and Europe in the Sixteenth Century (Edwin Mellen Press; spring 2003) that presents the history of the formulation of the world’s first mathematical theory for equal temperament by a late Ming dynasty scholar, and its possible transmission to Europe in the early seventeenth century by Jesuit priests. His other publications include two monographs, three music theory pedagogical manuals, and a number of articles in journals such as ICTM Proceedings, Journal of Music in China, Theoria, and others. Several of his compositions and musical arrangements have also been published and performed in the U.S. as well as in Europe and Asian countries

Dr. Cho served as a charter editorial board member of Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, and two terms as president of Texas Society for Music Theory. He is on the editorial review board of the Journal of Music in China (Los Angeles) and a member of the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications. He was appointed an honorary member of China’s Society of [Research in] Lü, Advisor to Society for (study in) the Western Music, and honorary permanent professor of Xinghai Conservatory (Guangzhou), Yunnan Conservatory, and Shandong Arts College (China). He was a guest professor in Taiwan (1986) and Hong Kong (1994-96). He has presented numerous lectures and clinics in six countries, and leads field study in China and Taiwan.