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Sylvia
Kahan
Professor
Performing and Creative Arts
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Sylvia Kahan
Professor
Office
: Building 1P
Room 203C
Phone
: 718.982.2556
Fax
: 718.982.2537
skahanpf@aol.com
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Degrees :
BFA, Oberlin Conservatory
M.M., Michigan State University
DMA, CUNY Graduate Center
Biography / Academic Interests
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Sylvia Kahan teaches courses in music history, music theory, and keyboard musicianship, as well as giving private instruction in piano and chamber music. In her teaching, she foregrounds the interconnections of the historical and cultural forces that shape music composition, music analysis, and performance practice. Many of her courses include the teaching of skills that enable students to write about music more clearly and confidently. Dr. Kahan has presented her research at numerous international conferences and is a frequent lecturer at New York City Opera. As a pianist, Sylvia Kahan has performed as concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician in all of New York City’s major concert halls and throughout North America and Europe. Her recitals have been broadcast on WQXR, WNYC, and National Public Radio.
Scholarships / Publications
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Professor Kahan’s writings appear in the journals Nineteenth Century Music (2005), Three Oranges (2004), and the Bulletin Marcel Proust (2003) and the anthologies Nadia Boulanger et Lili Boulanger, témoignages et études (Lyon: Symétrie, 2007), Edgard Varèse: Composer, Sound Sculptor, Visionary (Boydell and Brewer, 2006) and Regarding Fauré (Gordon and Breach, 1999). Her critically-acclaimed biography, Music’s Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac (University of Rochester Press, 2003, 2nd printing 2006) will be published in French translation as Une Musique de la Musique Moderne (Les Presses du Réel, forthcoming). A second book for University of Rochester Press, Edmond de Polignac and the Discovery of Octatonicism, is forthcoming.
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