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William Quillen

  • Dean of the Conservatory
  • Professor of Musicology

Education

  • BS, music and history, Indiana University, 2001
  • MA, musicology, University of California at Berkeley, 2003
  • Stazhirovka in musicology, Moscow Conservatory (2007-08, as Fulbright IIE grantee)
  • PhD, musicology, University of California at Berkeley, 2010
     

Biography

A musicologist and former tubist, William Quillen specializes in Russian music, 20th- and 21st-century music, and the sociology of music. As a research fellow of the University of Cambridge鈥檚 Clare College (2010-13), he supervised a variety of courses in the university鈥檚 Faculty of Music and Department of Slavonic Studies. He has also served on the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley as a visiting lecturer from 2013-14, and he has delivered a variety of invited talks at universities throughout the United States and U.K.

His work has been published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society and Music & Letters, among other forums. He serves on the editorial board of Academic Studies Press鈥 Studies in the History and Sociology of Music series.

He has appeared as a preconcert lecturer for such organizations as Cal Performances. He has helped organize concerts, conferences, and other events in the United States, U.K., and Russia.

Quillen was appointed Dean of the Conservatory in January 2020 after serving as acting dean since fall 2018. He joined 91直播 Conservatory in August 2017, after previously serving as legacy and major gifts officer at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He also has served in the administrations of Berkeley Symphony (as director of development), the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players (as project developer), and the San Francisco Symphony.

鈥淭he Idea of the 1920s in Russian Music Today.鈥 In Russian Music Since 1917: Reappraisal and Rediscovery, edited by Marina Frolova-Walker and Patrick Zuk, 376-95. Proceedings of the British Academy, no. 209. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

鈥淲inning and Losing in Russian New Music Today.鈥 Journal of the American Musicological Society 67, no. 2 (2014): 487-542.

English translations, with Anton Batagov, of Batagov鈥檚 Russian-language notes for his recordings Selected Letters of Sergei Rachmaninoff (FANCYMUSIC, Fancy026, 2013) and Post Production (FANCYMUSIC, Fancy042, 2014).

Research Fellow, Clare College, University of Cambridge (UK), 2010-13.

Ingolf Dahl Award in Musicology, Northern California & Pacific Southwest chapters of the American Musicological Society, 2010.

Fulbright IIE grant to Russia (Host institution: Moscow Conservatory), 2007-08.

Institute of Historical Research Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, University of London (award declined), 2007-08.

Title VI FLAS Award, Indiana University Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Languages, 2004.

Nicholas C. Christofilos, Jr. Memorial Prize in Music, University of California, Berkeley, 2004.

Panelist, 鈥淭he Politics of Soviet Musicology and Music Theory.鈥 American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory national meeting (Nov. 2018).

Organizer and roundtable participant, 鈥淢usic and Social Change after 1989: Comparative Views from Eastern Europe and Russia.鈥 Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies national meeting (Nov. 2013).

鈥淲inning and Losing in Russian Music Today.鈥 Paper delivered on the colloquium series in the Department of Music, University of California at Santa Barbara (Apr. 2012) and in the Department of Music, King鈥檚 College London (Oct. 2011).

Roundtable participant, 鈥淢usic and Interdisciplinarity.鈥 Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies national meeting (Nov. 2011).

鈥淐age in the USSR.鈥 Paper delivered at the national meeting of the American Musicological Society (Nov. 2010) and on the colloquium series in the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge (Jan. 2011) and the Department of Music, University of Nottingham (Dec. 2010).

鈥淏ack to the Future: The 1920s in Russian Music Today.鈥 Paper delivered at joint meeting of the Northern California and Pacific Southwest Chapters of the American Musicological Society (Apr. 2010) and at the Music, Memory, and Nostalgia conference at the University of Pittsburgh (Apr. 2009).

鈥淪corched Earths:  Aleksandr Vustin鈥檚 and Vladimir Tarnopolski鈥檚 Chevengur Settings, 1992-2001.鈥 Paper delivered at the national meeting of the American Musicological Society (Nov. 2008) and the national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (Nov. 2008)

鈥溾楨very Revolution is a Symphony鈥: Music and Song in the Early Soviet Years.鈥 U.S. Department of Education Title VI Teachers Outreach Conference, sponsored by UC Berkeley鈥檚 Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (Apr. 2007).

鈥淪hostakovich鈥檚 Late Simfonizm.鈥 Shostakovich-100 conference, Goldsmiths College London (Sep. 2006).

鈥淩ussian Simfonizm.鈥 Glinka and His Legacies conference, University of California, Berkeley (Apr. 2005).

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