LAWRENCE SHUSTER

81 Bartlett Hall

MUSIC THEORY; LECTURER

Lawrence Shuster received his doctoral degree in music theory from the City University of New York Graduate Center with a dissertation entitled "Transformational Harmony and Voice-Leading: Analytical Applications and Methodological Extensions of Klumpenhouwer Network Theory" completed under the supervision of Philip Lambert. Mr. Shuster has taught previously at the Contemporary Institute of Music in Beijing, China; Brooklyn College (CUNY); Hunter College (CUNY); and the University of Georgia, Athens. His research interests include theories of musical transformation; theories of musical time and jazz theory and analysis.

Mr. Shuster has presented papers at numerous international, national and regional conferences including the Society of Music Theory and the International Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music. For the past several years, Mr. Shuster has been conducting interdisciplinary research with the mathematician Jerry G. Ianni. Their joint publication entitled  "Groups of Symmetries for Tetrachordal K-classes" has been recently published as part of the selected conference proceedings from the First Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music. In addition to his activities as music theorist, Mr. Shuster is also active as an electric bassist and performs regularly at various venues in New York City.

Appointed 2008