JASON HOOPER

Office: Fine Arts Center 149H
(413) 545-2279
hooper@music.umass.edu

MUSIC THEORY; LECTURER

Jason Hooper is currently a doctoral candidate in Music Theory and Chancellor's Fellow at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. In addition, he holds a B.M. in Trombone Performance (2003) and a M.M. in Music Theory (2005), both from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. His research interests include Schenkerian theory, form, transformational theory, and the recent music of Elliott Carter. This fall he will present a paper entitled "A Transformational Approach to Harmony and Voice Leading in Elliott Carter's Recent Music" at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Montréal. His dissertation, advised by William Rothstein, chronicles how Heinrich Schenker's approach to form changed over time. Before coming to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he served as Adjunct Lecturer at Hunter College, CUNY and as Associate Instructor at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Appointed 2009