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Theodor Duda

Associate Professor of Music

Theodor Duda, music theory, American music, vocal pedagogy, and piano. Associate Professor of Music, appointed 1990. B.Mus., Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music; M.Mus., Michigan State University; A.Mus.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Has taught at several institutions in the Midwest before coming to Wooster. Primary performance interest is American concert song. Baritone soloist on the CD entitled With Pipes and Voices (Arkay Records AR6150). Guest lecture-recitalist at Brown University’s festival to honor American composer Gordon Binkerd’s 80th birthday. Contributor to the 2000 edition of the New Grove Dictionary. 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. Recent works include the song cycle Sleep Sound, premiered at the 2007 Ann Arbor Art Song Festival; 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. Edited and wrote keyboard realizations for the collected songs of Francis Hopkinson. In 1975 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. Guest composer at Baldwin-Wallace College’s Focus Festival of Contemporary Music in October 1999. Other performances of compositions on over a dozen college & university campuses across the country, at Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, and in Tokyo, Japan.