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Eric
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| Ph.D., University at Buffalo (2009) | |
| Dissertation: "Where the Truer Beauties Lie: Analytical Issues in Four Unbarred Songs by Charles Ives" | |
| M.A., CUNY: Queens College (1997) | |
| Thesis:
"The Learning of a Systematic Tonal Dictation Technique: A Treatise." Graduating Master's Award. |
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| B.M.,
Mannes
College of Music (1996) |
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Percussion
studies with John Horrigan, Jerry Scholl, and Norman
Freeman. Techniques of music (T.O.M.), theory and analysis with Henry
Burnett, John
Clough, Robert
Cuckson, William
Needelman, Daniel
Plante, Carl
Schachter and Charles
Smith. Conducting studies with Jacques-Louis
Monod. Choral studies with William
B. Wright. Composition studies with Thea
Musgrave. Tutor and substitute
teacher, Mannes College of Music since 1992. Faculty, Mannes College of
Music Preparatory
Division since 1996; former co-chair of T.O.M. Department. Former faculty,
Boys
Choir of Harlem, Highbridge
Voices, Amati Conservatory . Guest lecturer, Queens College Center
for Unlimited Enrichment, 1999-2003. Dr. Chernov taught on the theory faculty of the University
of Alabama from 2003-2006. He was the UA School of Music webmaster from 2004 to 2009. Dr. Chernov has taught courses in music theory, musicology and related fields at Queens College, Dowling College, and New School Jazz, among others. He has given lecture-series courses on Mahler, Program and Incidental Music of the 19th century, Beethoven's Symphonies, and American Masters of Song (concentrating on Charles Ives and Aaron Copland). He has conducted seminar courses on the Music of Pete Townshend and on British Pop Music of the 1960s. Conference coordination experience includes the Third International Schenker Symposium (1999), Carl Schachter: A Celebration (1999), and Developing the Musical Ear: A Conference on the Teaching of Ear Training at the College Level (2000). He recently presented his paper “Partition Possibilities in Ives’s Like a Sick Eagle” at the Fifth Annual CUNY-GSM Conference. His next conference presentations are at the Pacific Northwest and the Southern CMS Conferences (both in 2007). Dr. Chernov is the former choir director for the First Presbyterian Church of Newtown, the oldest congregation in Queens County, and one of the oldest in the United States (est. 1652). His wife, Konstantza, was the church's organist. |
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