Theodor Duda

Department/Affiliation: Music
Phone: 330-263-2045
Office Address: 210 Scheide
Email: tduda@wooster.edu

Degrees

• A.Mus.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Master of Music, Michigan State University
• Bachelor of Music, Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music

Courses Taught

Music Theory, American Music

Biography, Performance, and Research

Dr. Theodor Duda taught at several institutions in the Midwest before coming to Wooster. His primary performance interest is American concert song. He was featured as baritone soloist on the CD entitled With Pipes and Voices (Arkay Records AR6150). He has been guest lecture-recitalist at Brown University’s festival to honor American composer Gordon Binkerd’s 80th birthday. He was contributor to the 2000 edition of the New Grove Dictionary. He published composer and arranger whose works include over sixty songs for voice and piano, thirty-five choral pieces, five cantatas, and many piano and chamber compositions. His recent works include the song cycle Sleep Sound, premiered at the 2007 Ann Arbor Art Song Festival (at which festival his songs have often been performed); a set of choral part songs entitled A Rose and a Rose and a Rose, first performed in 2006 at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas; and Encomium for symphonic wind ensemble, also premiered in 2007. He edited and wrote keyboard realizations for the collected songs of Francis Hopkinson. In 1975 he was awarded the Joseph H. Bearns Prize for Composition by Columbia University for Cantata No. 2: Faust Soliloquy for baritone and orchestra. Commissions from Music Teachers National Association and Choral Department of the University of Hawaii. He was guest composer at Baldwin-Wallace College’s Focus Festival of Contemporary Music in October 1999. Other performances of his compositions include over a dozen college and university campuses across the country, at Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, and in Tokyo, Japan. He was appointed at The College of Wooster in 1990.