Speakers

Dr. Marcus R. Pyle is currently the distinguished inaugural Franco Professor of the Humanities and Assistant Professor of Musicology at Davidson College. He holds degrees from Juilliard, Royal Academy of Music, Dartmouth, and NYU. He is Artistic Director of the Davidson Concert Series, sponsored by WDAV, and past President of the American Musicological Society, Southeast. He is also a violist with Charlotte Strings Collective, Opera Carolina, Charlotte Symphony, and Chamber Music for All. Prior to Davidson he held positions at Tufts University and MIT. His research has been published in 19th-Century Music and in the Journal of Popular Music Studies. He is guest editor of Opera Quarterly, on the editorial board of Musicology Now, and is editor for Oxford’s Grove Dictionary of Music for topics 1900-present. In 2010, he founded ChamberWorks Music Institute which is a chamber music program that serves underrepresented and underprivileged young string players in the Dallas area. Since 2010, ChamberWorks has partnered with Southern Methodist University, has been featured in the Dallas Morning News, and has toured New York City, Boston, and London.