College Music Department

Dr. Kim Kowalke

Kim KowalkeProfessor of Music, the College, University of Rochester
The Richard L. Turner Professor in Humanities
Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music
kkwk@mail.rochester.edu
Courses: Music History, Musical Theater
Todd Union 210
(585) 275-2828
Ph.D., Yale

  • Professor of Music and past Chair, the College Music Department. The Richard L. Turner Professor in Humanities. Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music.
  • BA (summa cum laude), Macalester College; MA, MPhil, PhD, Yale.
  • Winner of Theron Rockwell Field Prize for the dissertation "Kurt Weill in Europe, 1900-35: A Study of His Music and Writings."
  • Member of Phi Beta Kappa.
  • Recipient, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Martha Baird Rockefeller Grant, Whiting Prize Dissertation Fellowship, Mellon Foundation Grant, ACLS Research Grant, Graves Award, and other prizes and awards.
  • President, Board of Trustees, Kurt Weill Foundation for Music (1981-Present). Founding member of the Editorial Board, Kurt Weill Edition.
  • Author, Kurt Weill in Europe, numerous articles, reviews, and liner notes on 19th- and 20th-century music, opera, and musical theater, including, especially, Hindemith, Orff, and Sondheim.
  • Editor, A New Orpheus: Essays on Kurt Weill, A Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill Studies, Speak Low: The Weill-Lenya Correspondence; four-time winner of ASCAP's Deems Taylor Award, two-time winner of Irving Lowens Award for Best Article on American Music, Theatre Library Association's George Freedley Award. Co-author of two documentary films for the BBC and Hessische Rundfunk (Frankfurt A.M.).
  • Member, Sonneck Society (Lowens Prize Committee, 1997), American Musicological Society National Council (1985-88), Program Committee (1986), AMS 50 Fellowship Committee (1993-); College Music Society; International Brecht Society.
  • Conductor, Eastman Opera Theatre Street Scene (1991), There Once Was a Girl Named Jenny (1995), "Tribute to George Abbott" (1997). Collegiate Symphony Orchestra and Occidental Faculty Players (1977-83).
  • Faculty member, Occidental College (1978-86), University of Rochester (1986-Present).