Post by deanna on Aug 26, 2011 16:16:16 GMT -7
Christopher Shultis, Regents’ Professor of Music, College of Fine Arts, has been on faculty since 1980. He rounded out his music academic career with a 1993 doctorate in American Studies at UNM. His dissertation on John Cage was later published as a book, which has become one of two books on John Cage recommended in the Grout History of Western Music.
In addition to his faculty appointment in music, Shultis taught in General Honors as a visiting lecturer and then an adjunct professor in American Studies. Schultis was the 55th Annual Research Lecturer in 2010, an award recognized as the highest award UNM bestows on its faculty members.
He has received numerous honors, including two Fulbright awards. As director of percussion studies 1980–96, Shultis worked closely with renowned composers including Ernst Krenek, Lou Harrison, Michael Colgrass and John Cage. His performance of Konrad Boehmer’s “Schreeuw Van Deze Aarde” for solo percussion earned him an Edison award for best new music recording.
Schlutis’ nominator wrote, “He is a major thinker whose work has received important notice like the Deems Taylor award for Musicological Research. He has had an amazing career beginning as an astonishing and brilliant percussionist who, after becoming a senior faculty, injured his wrist. In response to this seeming end to his career, he instead earned a doctorate and became a noted scholar in the field of musicology and theory.”
The nominator added, “Students flock to his classes because he has so much to offer whether it is important insights on Cage and Stockhausen to an in-depth analysis of Brian Wilson’s “Pet Sounds” (and the more recent ‘Smiles’). His range includes all contemporary music from Phish to Nirvana, Rudhyar to Glass. He is equally at home teaching scholars in the honors program as he is teaching non-music majors about the intricacies of Rock.”
“His appointment to the editorial board of one of the three primary juried journals in the field confirms the scope of his achievement as a respected scholar,” his nominator wrote.
In addition to his faculty appointment in music, Shultis taught in General Honors as a visiting lecturer and then an adjunct professor in American Studies. Schultis was the 55th Annual Research Lecturer in 2010, an award recognized as the highest award UNM bestows on its faculty members.
He has received numerous honors, including two Fulbright awards. As director of percussion studies 1980–96, Shultis worked closely with renowned composers including Ernst Krenek, Lou Harrison, Michael Colgrass and John Cage. His performance of Konrad Boehmer’s “Schreeuw Van Deze Aarde” for solo percussion earned him an Edison award for best new music recording.
Schlutis’ nominator wrote, “He is a major thinker whose work has received important notice like the Deems Taylor award for Musicological Research. He has had an amazing career beginning as an astonishing and brilliant percussionist who, after becoming a senior faculty, injured his wrist. In response to this seeming end to his career, he instead earned a doctorate and became a noted scholar in the field of musicology and theory.”
The nominator added, “Students flock to his classes because he has so much to offer whether it is important insights on Cage and Stockhausen to an in-depth analysis of Brian Wilson’s “Pet Sounds” (and the more recent ‘Smiles’). His range includes all contemporary music from Phish to Nirvana, Rudhyar to Glass. He is equally at home teaching scholars in the honors program as he is teaching non-music majors about the intricacies of Rock.”
“His appointment to the editorial board of one of the three primary juried journals in the field confirms the scope of his achievement as a respected scholar,” his nominator wrote.