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SHEPHERD SCHOOL FACULTY AND STAFF

The Shepherd School of Music is one of the nation's youngest major university level music programs. In the last few years, it has also become one of the most prominent. The school has attracted an international student body and faculty whose impact on the cultural life of Rice and greater Houston is apparent everywhere.

A school of music is its faculty. The Shepherd School is proud to state that quality of instruction is paramount. Our illustrious faculty of artist-teachers are dedicated to the highest possible cultivation of the talents and skills of each individual student.

Dean of the Shepherd School of Music
Robert Yekovich
Composition and Theory
Karim Al-Zand
Anthony Brandt
Shih-Hui Chen
Arthur Gottschalk
Pierre Jalbert
Richard Lavenda
Kurt Stallmann

Musicology
Walter Bailey
Gregory Barnett
Marcia Citron
David Ferris
Peter Loewen

Orchestral Repertoire
Joan DerHovsepian
Christopher French
Eric Halen
Thomas LeGrand

Lecturers
Nancy Bailey
Rachel Buchman
Phillip Kloeckner
Virginia Nance
Janet Rarick
Robert Simpson
Cornelia Watkins

Adjunct Lecturers

David Rosenfield
C. Richard Stasney
Pieter Visser
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