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Ronald Cross, Prof. of Music, Kurt and Auguste Riemann Chair of Music,
Wagner College. Director, Wagner College Young Musicians Competition. Currently organist St.Paul’s/St.Luke’s Lutheran Church; previously organist/choirmaster of various churches.
Received an M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University, Graduate School
of Arts and Sciences (musicology, Medieval and Renaissance notation, ethnomusicology, organology, adv. strict and adv tonal counterpoint, adv. composition, commonwealth of art, adv. orchestration); ); Associateship diploma, American Guild of Organists; former Dean of the S.I. Chapter of
the A.G.O.; Fulbright Fellowship, study at Univ. of Florence musicology), Conservatorio of Venice (composition), Accademia Chiggiana, Siena (harpsichord), Univ. of Perugia (literature) and Univ. of Vienna (literature); studied conducting at Guillmont Organ School; grant from the American Council of Learned Societies for work in the history of Medieval,
Renaissance and non-Western music theory (leading to publication).
Transcribed and edited the complete works of the mid-Renaissance
Flemish composer Matthaeus Pipelare: Opera omnia; various scholarly
articles (Musica disciplina, Musical Quarterly, Groves Dictionary of Music
and Musicians, etc.); reviewer of Renaissance recordings for many years
for the Musical Quarterly, other articles and numerous book reviews (The American Recorder, Early Music Newsletter, etc.); the video The
Harpsichord Today: An Interview with Ronald Cross, was nominated for
three Nova awards; long time free lance performer on viola da gamba
and recorder.
For many years Director of the Wagner Collegium Musicum and Director
of the Wagner Summer Seminar in Viola da Gamba and Early Music; previously conductor/teacher at other colleges and free-lance conductor,
such as contemporary music at Town Hall; eighteen consecutive grants
from the Council on the Arts for harpsichord recitals at Snug Harbor
Cultural Center; numerous organ and harpsichord recitals throughout
the Northeast and Canada (such as an all-Bach organ recital at St.
Thomas, 5th Ave., N.Y. and harpsichord at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, yearly recitals at Old John St. Church, near Wall St.), etc.; performer on
many instruments and director of the Collegium Pro Musica.
Recorded for FSM (Germany), Pantheon and Priceless (solo and with Collegium Pro Musica); glowing reviews of Songs and Dances of the Renaissance in Europe, the Far East and in journals and newspapers
across the U.S.; award from French government and second place in
national contest for graduate study in France; chosen to present a special project and selected by the French government to present a recital
of French harpsichord music for the celebration of the bicentennial by the French Revolution; in 1996 was asked by Lincoln Center to perform the complete harpsichord works by Henry Purcell on the 300th anniversary
of his death; Bio included in American Keyboard Artists; Bakers, Who's
Who in America, Who's Who in the World, other Who's Whos; builder of
several harpsichords; Founder's Day Award, NYU; Award for Outstanding Service, S. I. Council of Churches, 1999; Board of Trustees, Ignatius
University.
Served on the Committee for the selection of Fulbright grantees in ethnomusicology, Institute for International Education.
Formerly Secretary-Treasure of the NYC Chapter of the American
Musicological Society; Dean, AGO,SI; took part in the Jubilee 2000
Celebration in N.Y., performing Bach's D Min. Concerto for harpsichord
and orchestra; Wagner Award for Technology, and Award for Most
Inspiring Faculty member; NYU Alumni Award for Achievement; selected
for the ODK special Colloquium in 2002, "Where the Muse Leads"; two-hour
live broadcast on WKCR; live broadcasts on WNYC; live interview on
WQXR; short presentations on NPR, and National Italian Television;
WNYC program devoted to "Recordings of Trevor Pinnock and Ronald
Cross."
Composer of various composition: Chorale-preludes for Organ (H.W. Grey)
Psalm settings for Chorus and Organ; Settings from the Japanese (Haiku
settings for chamber orchestra and chorus based on aleatoric and canon
cancrizan techniques, premiered at Town Hall); Song Settings of Emily
Dickinson for Soprano and Piano.
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