Carl Leafstedt

B.A. Music and chemistry. Williams College, 1986 
Ph.D. Music. Harvard University, 1994

Carl Leafstedt, appointed to the music department faculty in 2001, is a music historian specializing in 19th- and 20th-century American and European music. A graduate of Williams College, where he majored in both chemistry and music, he received his Ph.D. in music from Harvard University in 1994. Prior to joining Trinity he taught on the faculties of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Southwestern University. His articles on the music of Bartok and Stravinsky have appeared in College Music Symposium, NOTES, and Studia Musicologica. He writes frequently on the music of Bela Bartok, and in 1999 published a book on Bartok’s opera Duke Bluebeard’s Castle with Oxford University Press. He has contributed essays to Bartok and His World (Princeton University Press, 1995), Bartok Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2000), and the recent Cambridge Companion to Bartok (Cambridge University Press, 2001). Active also as a violist and pianist, he comes to Trinity with his wife Ann, an attorney specializing in corporate law, and his two boys Wendell, 5, and Kent, 3.

 
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