Carl Schachter 2003-04 Endowed Chairholder in Music Theory

Carl Schachter has taught music theory and analysis at Mannes College of Music since 1956. He has served as the chair of the Techniques of Music Department, and was Dean of the College from 1962 to 1966. In July 1996 he retired as Distinguished Professor of Music at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he had taught since 1971, and subsequently joined the faculty of The Juilliard School. He was a visiting professor at Harvard University in 1997.

Professor Schachter is the co-author of two well-known theory texts - Counterpoint in Composition with Felix Salzer, and Harmony and Voice Leading with Edward Aldwell - and a number of articles, many of them dealing with Schenkerian analysis; one of these won the 1996 publication award of the Society for Music Theory. A collection of his essays, entitled Unfoldings, was recently published by Oxford University Press.

Trained as a pianist and a conductor, he has had a number of distiguished performers as students, among them conductors Semyon Bychkov, Yakov Kreisberg, and Myung Whun Chung, and pianists Richard Goode and Murray Perahia.

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