Dmitri Tymoczko
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Dmitri Tymoczko studied music and philosophy at Harvard University, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to do graduate work in philosophy at Oxford University. He received his Ph.D in music composition from the University of California, Berkeley. He is an Associate Professor at Princeton, where he has taught composition and music theory since 2002. Dmitri's music has won numerous prizes and awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Hugh F. MacColl Prizes from Harvard University, and the Eisner and DeLorenzo prizes from the University of California Berkeley. He has received fellowships from Tanglewood, the Ernest Bloch festival, the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory, and was the composer-in-residence at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He was awarded a Bicentennial Preceptorship from Princeton, and has been the Block lecturer at the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. His book A Geometry of Music is published by Oxford University Press, and his jazz/funk/classical album Beat Therapy is available from Bridge Records. His articles have appeared in the American Mathematical Monthly, the Atlantic Monthly, Berfrois, Boston Review, Civilization, Integral, Journal of Music Theory, Lingua Franca, Music Analysis, Music Theory Online, Music Theory Spectrum, Science, Seed, and Transition. His article "The Geometry of Musical Chords" was the first music-theory article published in the 130-year history of Science magazine.
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