Ph.D. (Musicology) Indiana University; M.M. (Choral Conducting) Yale University; B.M. (Theory) Furman University. Primary interest in American music, nineteenth- and twentieth-century music in both cultivated and vernacular traditions, and the music of J. S. Bach. Has presented papers at meetings of the Society for American Music, Aaron Copland Centenary Festival and Conference at University of Maryland College Park, the Colloquium Series of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and elsewhere.