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	About Robert Winter

Robert Winter: Ida Cordelia Beam Visiting Professor

February 7, 2007 – 12:30-1:30 pm Harper Hall, VMB
“Can Our Music Curriculum Be Saved?”

February 8, 2007 – 6:45-7:45 pm Room 240, Art Building West
“Classical Music in a Digital World”

February 9, 2007 – 8:00 pm, Clapp Hall, VMB (with the Maia Quartet)
“The Margins and the Center-Edvard Grieg and Musical Nationalism” – reception following in Clapp Lobby

Scholar/pianist/media author ROBERT WINTER earned a B.A. from Brown University, an M.F.A. in Piano from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a Ph. D. in the History & Theory of Music from the University of Chicago. He spent 1972-74 in Europe on Fulbright-Hayes and Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation fellowships researching his doctoral work on the sketches for Beethoven's String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131. A member of the UCLA music faculty since 1974, he served as Acting Chair of the Music Department in 1992-93.??

In the first fifteen years of his scholarly career, Winter authored, co-authored, or edited four major books on Beethoven and published a substantial number of influential articles on compositional process, performance practice, and Franz Schubert (he contributed the Schubert article to the new 2000 edition of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians). The Beethoven Sketchbooks (with Douglas Johnson and Alan Tyson, published by the University of California Press) received the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society for the best scholarly music book of 1985.

From 1979 on, Winter became widely known to the general musical public for his nationally broadcast 10-week live-music series on Mozart and Beethoven (with the Sequoia Quartet) for American Public Radio, as well as programs in the series Pacific Coast Highway. His audiences for countless live performances and lectures covering a vast range of musical and cultural topics have included the national meetings of the American Symphony Orchestra League, Avery Fisher Hall (New York Philharmonic) and the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center, the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, the Cleveland Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the 92nd Street Y, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.

In addition to his interactive creating and authoring, Winter has become an articulate international spokesperson for the role of content and the arts in a digital world. He has been a featured or keynote speaker/performer at many professional conferences, including the Microsoft CD-ROM Conference, the Japanese National Audio-Visual Conference in Tokyo, MacWorld Expos in the United States and Mexico, Milia (Cannes, France), Intermedia (San Francisco), Chamber Music America, and the Ziff Institute. He also recorded a live video music series for RCA Victor that was launched with three titles in February 1995.

As President of Calliope, a multimedia publishing company devoted to originally authored programs in the arts, humanities, and entertainment, Mr. Winter authored or produced numerous titles-from "Robert Winter's Crazy for Ragtime" (released in May 1996) to "Interactive Perlman" (a program exploring Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman) that have continued to receive wide critical acclaim. He was the recipient with Joseph Horowitz of an NEH grant to vastly expand and transform his earlier program on Dvorák and the New World into a fully interactive DVD (the first of its kind) that will appear in the fall of 2005. In 2003 he was recruited by Carnegie Hall to help spearhead their new digital outreach programs. The first project joins forces with the world renowned Emerson String Quartet in an interactive Performer's Guide to the Bartók Quartets, which will go online in the fall of 2005. In addition to his multifaceted teaching , Winter currently divides his time equally between live appearances and new media creation.

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