Robert Hasegawa receives a Society for Music Theory award

Robert Hasegawa, Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Area Chair for Music Theory at the Schulich School of Music, has received the 'Emerging Scholar Award' at the 2016 Society for Music Theory conference held in Vancouver.  His article “Clashing Harmonic Systems in Haas’s Blumenstück and in vain” was published in the journal Music Theory Spectrum 37/2 (Fall 2015).  The Emerging Scholar Award (Article) is given for an article published no more than seven calendar years after the author’s receipt of the Ph.D. (or, in the case of someone who does not hold a Ph.D., before the author reaches the age of forty). 

Hasegawa completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University and was previously a faculty member of the Eastman School of Music, His scholarly interests include the music of György Ligeti, French ‘spectralist’ composters Gérard Grisey and Tristan Murail, transformational theory and the history of music theory.  In addition to his theoretical work, Robert is an active composer with recent compositions having been performed by White Rabbit, cellist Frances-Marie Uitti, Stephen Drury and the Callithumpian Consort.