Richard Taruskin
Richard Taruskin is an American musicologist, music historian, and critic who has written about the theory of performance, Russian music, 15th-century music, 20th-century music, nationalism, the theory of modernism, and analysis. As a choral conductor he directed the Columbia University Collegium Musicum. He played the viola da gamba with the Aulos Ensemble from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. Taruskin received his B.A. magna cum laude, M.A. and Ph.D. in historical musicology from Columbia University.
He has received various awards for his scholarship, including the Noah Greenberg Prize from the American Musicological Society, the Alfred Einstein Award, the Dent Medal, the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and the 1997 and 2006 Kinkeldey Prizes from the American Musicological Society. On the faculty of Columbia University until 1986, he moved to California as a professor of musicology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he held the Class of 1955 Chair. He retired from Berkeley at the end of 2014.
He has received various awards for his scholarship, including the Noah Greenberg Prize from the American Musicological Society, the Alfred Einstein Award, the Dent Medal, the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and the 1997 and 2006 Kinkeldey Prizes from the American Musicological Society. On the faculty of Columbia University until 1986, he moved to California as a professor of musicology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he held the Class of 1955 Chair. He retired from Berkeley at the end of 2014.
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