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Eric B. Chernov
 

Ph.D., University at Buffalo (2009)
     Dissertation: "Where the Truer Beauties Lie: Analytical Issues in Four Unbarred Songs by Charles Ives"
M.A., Queens College (CUNY) (1997)
     Thesis: "The Learning of a Systematic Tonal Dictation Technique: A Treatise."
     Graduating Master's Award.
B.M., Mannes College of Music (1996)
 
Percussion studies with John Horrigan, Jerry Scholl, and Norman Freeman. Theory and analysis with Henry Burnett, John Clough, Robert Cuckson, 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; co-chair of Techniques of Music Department. Former faculty, Boys Choir of Harlem, Highbridge Voices, among others. 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. He holds professorships (adj) at both Queens College (assistant) and Dowling College (associate). In 2010 he was awarded Queens College's "Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching."

Dr. Chernov teaches courses in music theory, musicology and related fields. 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, British Pop Music of the 1960s, and Led Zeppelin.

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). Conference presentations at the Fifth Annual CUNY-GSM Conference, and regional CMS Conferences.

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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