Email: pewell@hunter.cuny.edu
Office: Room 527 Hunter North
Phone:
Spring 2023 Advising Hours:
Tuesdays 4:00–6:00PM
Philip Ewell is a professor of music theory at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He is also on the doctoral faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center. His research specialties include race studies in music theory, Russian music theory, Russian opera, modal theory and history, twentieth-century music theory, and hiphop and popular music. As a public music theorist his scholarship has been featured in Adam Neely’s YouTube channel, the BBC, Die Zeit, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and WQXR’s Aria Code, among other outlets.
His monograph, On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone, will appear with the University of Michigan Press’s Music and Social Justice series in Spring 2023. He is also under contract at W. W. Norton to coauthor a new music theory textbook, The Engaged Musician: Theory and Analysis for the Twenty-First Century, which will be a modernized and inclusive textbook based on recent developments in music theory pedagogy, with a projected publication date also in 2023.
Philip’s BA in Music is from Stanford University, where he studied cello with Stephen Harrison and music theory with Leonard Ratner. His MA in cello performance is from Queens College (CUNY), where he studied cello with Barbara Mallow and music theory with Carl Schachter. He also has a certificate in cello performance from the St. Petersburg (Russia) Conservatory, where he studied with Anatoly Nikitin, and a PhD in music theory from Yale University, where he wrote a dissertation on Alexander Scriabin as an advisee of Allen Forte. Finally, he studied music theory, as a visiting student, with Yuri Kholopov at the Moscow Conservatory.
For more information on Philip visit his website, philipewell.com.
