College of Arts and Sciences

Assistant Professor of Theory
Phone: (239)590-7627
E-Mail: dthurmai@fgcu.edu
Office: Music Mod-Room 1

David Thurmaier will join the faculty of Florida Gulf Coast University as an Assistant Professor of Music in Fall 2007, where he will teach music theory.  For the past four years, Dr. Thurmaier taught music theory at the University of Central Missouri, and also spent a year teaching at Lawrence University.  A native of the Chicago area, he received a B.M. in Music Composition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied with Salvatore Martirano and Paul Martin Zonn.  He also holds a M.A. in Music Theory Pedagogy from the Eastman School of Music, and completed the Ph. D. in Music Theory from Indiana University in 2006.  His dissertation title is “Time and Compositional Process in Charles Ives’s Holidays Symphony.”
In addition to Ives, his research interests include time and music, sketch study, and the pedagogy of twentieth-century music.  He has presented papers at many national and regional conferences, including the Society for Music Theory, Society for American Music, and the College Music Society.  From 2003-2007, he was the arts columnist for the magazine Forum, the journal of the honor society Phi Kappa Phi.  Dr. Thurmaier has a performance background on horn and guitar (jazz and rock), and is also a diehard Beatlemaniac.