soundSCAPE | Visiting Artist: Martin Scherzinger, musicology

	Martin Scherzinger, visiting artist soundSCAPE musicology lecturer Martin Scherzinger has been a recipient of the Cotsen fellowship from Princeton University, Society of Fellows (2004-07), the Tuck Fellowship, Princeton University (2006-07), research fellowships from the Sacher Stiftung, Switzerland (2006-2009), an ACLS/A. W. Mellon Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (2002-03), the AMS 50 Fellowship (1990-00), American Musicological Society, President’s Fellowship from Columbia University (1994-00), and the International Scholarship for Music from the Foundation for the Creative Arts, South Africa (1994).

Martin Scherzinger, visiting artist

soundSCAPE musicology lecturer

Martin Scherzinger has been a recipient of the Cotsen fellowship from Princeton University, Society of Fellows (2004-07), the Tuck Fellowship, Princeton University (2006-07), research fellowships from the Sacher Stiftung, Switzerland (2006-2009), an ACLS/A. W. Mellon Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (2002-03), the AMS 50 Fellowship (1990-00), American Musicological Society, President’s Fellowship from Columbia University (1994-00), and the International Scholarship for Music from the Foundation for the Creative Arts, South Africa (1994).

Scherzinger's research interests include 19th and 20th-century music, with a particular interest in music after 1945, including high modernism, minimalism, post-modernism, transnational musical fusions, electronic dance music, non-western music (in particular African music), and the politics of globalization. Other interests include aesthetics and history of music theory (19th and 20th centuries), psychoanalysis, the hermeneutics of absolute music, feminism, the afterlife of romanticism in late modernism, and the politics of mass-mediated music.

He has served as associate editor for Perspectives of New Music (2004-), Editor for Journal of American Musicology (2007), Editor for SAMUS: Journal of South African Music Studies (2007-), Contributing Editor for Open Space (2002-), Editor for NewMusicSA: Bulletin of the International Society for Contemporary Music, South African Section (2007-), Senior Editorial Board Member for Current Musicology (1993-00). Associate Member of the South African Music Rights Organization (1997-)

Martin received his BA and BM from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa; and the MA, MPhil, PhD, from Columbia University. He received an emerging scholar award from the Society for Music Theory (2002-03). Joint winner of the Total Music Composition Competition, South Africa (1995) and Composers’ Competition, South Africa (1993). Member of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory (Awards Committee, 2002-05, Committee on Diversity, 1999-02, Mentor for the Committee on the Status of Women, 2004-), Program Committee Member (Feminist Theory and Music 8, Music Theory Society of New York State), Faculty Mentor for the Mellon Summer Research Fellows, Princeton University.