Michael Beckerman

Michael Beckerman is Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Music and Collegiate Professor at New York University. He has written on Czech topics, film music, Mozart, orientalism, music of the Roma, and composition in the camps and the question of the relationship between form and musical meaning. He is the author of six books including New Worlds of Dvořák, Martinů’s Mysterious Accident, and Janáček as Theorist. He was recently made an honorary member of the Czech Musicological Society. He has taught at Washington University, the University of Chicago, the University of California, Santa Barbara, Central European University, Charles University in Prague, and New York University where, from 2004 to 2013 he served as department chair. From 2011 to 2015 he served as distinguished professor of history at Lancaster University in England and he was the Leonard Bernstein Scholar in Residence of the New York Philharmonic from 2016 to 2018.