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

David Thurmaier joined the faculty of Florida Gulf Coast University as Assistant Professor of Music and Head of Theory Studies in Fall 2007.  He has previously served on the faculties of Lawrence University and the University of Central Missouri.  He received degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.M. in Music Composition) and the Eastman School of Music (M.A. in Music Theory Pedagogy).  Dr. Thurmaier also holds the Ph.D. in Music Theory from Indiana University, where his dissertation title was “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.