Faculty

Roger Moseley, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Music History, is a musicologist whose activities focus on musical thought and practice from the 19th to the 21st centuries. His research interests include the music of Brahms, Schumann, Fauré, and Poulenc; the performance and reception of art song; the poetics and aesthetics of transcription; and musical interpretation through rhythm-based videogames. He has recently published an article on Brahms's Piano Trio in B, op. 8, and a review-article covering recent Brahms literature in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and is currently working on a book that addresses Brahms's interactions with musical scholars, theorists, and practitioners and their effects on how his music has been understood. Before coming to Chicago, he held a Junior Research Fellowship at University College, Oxford; prior to that, he earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004.

Roger is also a collaborative pianist and recently completed an MMus at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, where he studied with Graham Johnson and Ronan O'Hora. He also extemporises in late 18th- and early 19th-century idioms, and recently performed a Mozart piano concerto in which he improvised cadenzas and embellishments. Excerpts and an interview were subsequently broadcast on Classic FM in the UK, and a live recording of the concerto, along with other performances, can be streamed or downloaded from his website, www.rogermoseley.com.

Office: Classics 415
Email: rogermo@uchicago.edu