An Evening with Music Theorist Philip Ewell

Join Boulanger Initaitive for a virtual presentation with music theorist Philip Ewell. Dr. Ewell is a Professor of Music Theory at Hunter College CUNY. His specialties include race studies, Russian opera, modal theory and history, twentieth-century music theory, and African American music. His work has appeared in the BBC, the CBC, Daily Beast, Die Zeit, New York Times, New Yorker, The Conversation, and WQXR’s Aria Code. His monograph, On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone, appeared with the UM Press in 2023 and won the PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers and the Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory. His co-edited volume, American Antiblackness, recently appeared with Routledge. He is coauthoring a music theory textbook, The Engaged Musician: Theory and Analysis for the Twenty-First Century, which is under contract at W.W. Norton, and he is the series editor for OUP’s Theorizing African American Music. (140 words)