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Composition/Theory
Office: Graduate Music House 200A | Phone: 732-932-8813 
Richard ChrismanComposition/Theory Richard Chrisman is current Director of the Graduate Programs in Music: the Master of Music, the Artist Diploma, and Doctoral of Music Arts in the Mason Gross School of the Arts; and the Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in musicology and in compostion/theory for the Graduate School of Rutgers University. He graduated from Yale with a PhD in music theory, and now devotes most of his time toward composition.
Office: Music 114 | Phone: 732-932-9272 
Christopher DollComposition/Theory Christopher Doll specializes in the analysis of recent popular and art music (especially in regard to tonality), the analysis of film music, metatheory, and composition. He earned degrees at Columbia University (Ph.D. with distinction), the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (M.M.), and Case Western Reserve University (B.A.), and undertook additional graduate studies at SUNY Stony Brook.
Office: Graduate Music House 200B | Phone: 732-932-8813 
Charles FussellTheory, Composition Fussell's works include five symphonies; Wilde, a symphony for baritone and orchestra, was runner-up for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize. His music is programmed frequently by Boston ensembles, in particular Collage New Music, The Cantata Singers, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Fussell attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he worked with Thomas Canning and Bernard Rogers, and studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, working with Boris Blacher. While in Germany, he also attended the Bayreuth Masterclasses of Frideland Wagner. He later was assistant to and close friend of composer Virgil Thomson. He has received a citation and award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, grants from the Ford Foundation and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and a Fulbright Fellowship. Fussell's discography includes Specimen Days and Being Music, two commissions for the 1992 Walt Whitman Centennial (Koch Records), Symphony No. 5, The Astronaut's Tale, and Right River, Concerto for Cello solo and String Orchestra (Albany Records). Fussell has served on the faculty of Boston University and Rutgers University, and is active as vice president of the Virgil Thomson Foundation.
Office: Music Building | Phone: 732-932-9302 
Richard MetzgerOnline Learning Metzger has a B.F.A. from the Pennsylvania State University (string performance), an M.A. from Marywood University (musicology), and a Ph.D. from Rutgers (musicology). His publications include two critical editions, Chansons of the Sixteenth Century for Classical Guitar: Franco-Flemish and Parisian Chansons Printed by Attaingnant and French Clavecin Music for Guitar. Editions of the Willoughby and Marsh lute manuscripts, major manuscripts of the late English Renaissance, are forthcoming. As a classical musician, he performed on solo guitar and lute, including tours as the recipient of grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Metzger now devotes his efforts to improvisational jazz on electric guitar. He also composed and performed the music for the PBS documentary film, "The Once and Future City" and a production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", directed by Giles Block of the National Theatre of Great Britain. He teaches face-to-face courses but is also currently involved in the development of online courses for the Mason Gross School of the Arts. Metzger formerly taught online for New York University.
Email: onlinemusic@masongross.rutgers.edu 
Nancy Yunhwa RaoTheory Dr. Rao has degrees from National Taiwan Normal University (B.A.) and the University of Michigan (M.M. and Ph.D.). Her research interests include twentieth-century American music, women composers, early history of Chinatown opera theaters and contemporary Chinese composers. Her articles can be found in the Musical Quarterly, American Music, Perspectives of New Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, as well as essay collections Locating East Asia in Western Art Music and Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-century American Music. She received American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, 2003, and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship, 2004–2005.
Office: Graduate Music | Phone: 732-932-8809 
Matthew RiedelComposition Matthew Riedel has degrees from the State University of California (B.A., organ and composition), University of California (M.A., composition and theory), and Rutgers University (Ph.D., composition and theory). His works have been performed in films, television, recordings and onstage in this country and Europe. He has also worked as a hardware/software engineer and was a representative for Arp, Moog Music, and Touch Synthesis in the mid 1970's. He also has worked as a recording enginner, both in-studio and freelance. Prof. Riedel specializes in computer, electronic and electroacoustic music and performs on a variety of synthesizer controllers (keyboard, percussion and experimental) as well as theremin and electric bass. His catalog of works has recently been added to the collection at La Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France). Prof. Riedel teaches electroacoustic, computer, and traditional composition techniques, recording, technology, and theory. He runs the electronic music lab, the recording arts studio, the sonic arts studio, and the IMLC on-line courses and training system.
Office: GMH 200E | Phone: 732-932-6873
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