Steven Plank
Director, Division of Musicology
Professor of Musicology
Faculty, Historical Performance Program
Director, Collegium Musicum
Education:
B.Mus. with honors, 1973, M.Mus., 1974, University of
Louisville; Ph.D., Washington University (St. Louis), 1980;
Studies in early music performance with Trevor Pinnock,
James Tyler, Edward Tarr, and Bruce Dickey.
Professional Affiliations:
Member, Louisville Orchestra, 1970-76; Early Music Ensemble
of St. Louis, 1978-79; Papers on 17th-century music read
before the American Musicological Society and the Society
for Seventeenth-Century Music; Associate editor, Historic
Brass Society Journal.
Publications (Books):
• Choral Performance: A Guide to Historical
Practice (Scarecrow Press, 2005)
• The Way to Heavens Doore: An Introduction to Liturgical
Process and Musical Style (Scarecrow
Press,1994)
• Co-translator:
Edward Tarr’s The Trumpet (Batsford Ltd., 1988)
Publications
(Contributing Author):
Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Early Music, The Musical Times,
Music & Letters, Bach, The Consort, Franciscan Studies, and Choir
and Organ.
Teaching:
Visiting assistant professor of trumpet, University of
Massachusetts, 1975; Teaching assistant (Collegium Musicum,
historical winds), Washington University, 1977-79;
Affiliated teacher, St. Louis University, 1978-79.
Recordings:
Orchestral recordings, Louisville Orchestra First
Editions.
The Oberlin Collegium Musicum at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, Washington, D.C. Photo credit: Margot Schulman