| Gene J. Cho, Regents Professor | ||
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B.S., Chung-Hsing National University; M.A.,
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; Ph.D. Northwestern
University. He was a member of the Charter Editorial Board of Journal
of Music Theory Pedagogy, and is currently an editorial board member of
Journal of Music in China (Los Angeles). He also serves as
an External Examiner for Hong Kong Institute of Education. His
publication includes three monographs, three pedagogical manuals, a
number of journal articles, a choral anthology, and several shorter
composition-arrangements. His most recent publication is a
monograph The
Discovery of Equal Temperament in China and Europe in the Sixteenth
Century (Edwin Mellen Press, Spring 2003). Chinese
translation of this and one other work will be forthcoming. In
addition, his compositions and arrangements for voice, piano, ensemble,
and orchestra have been performed in the United States, Europe, and
Asia. His most recent commissioned original compositions include
an incidental music for a stage play Confucius, and a musical
setting of a literary 'tone poem' Abraham Lincoln: The Whole Heart,
for orchestra, chorus, soli and narrators. Cho has presented
lectures, clinics and workshops in theory, conducting and composition in
six countries outside the U.S.
In addition, Dr. Cho teaches a sequence of courses in music and culture of China and Japan and directs field study programs to Asia. Most recently, he led an intensive study on the culture and music of the minority nationals in China's southern provinces. Dr. Cho is also an advisor to the Asian Music Students Association (AMSA). |