David Beach

Biography

Professor Beach was Dean of the Faculty of Music from 1996 to 2004. Prior to his appointment at the University of Toronto, he taught at Yale University for seven years, where he also served as Director of Undergraduate Studies in Music. Following a one-year appointment at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, he accepted a position at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, where he taught for twenty-two years. At Eastman, he served for several years as Chair of the Department of Music Theory and for three years as Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Rochester.

Professor Beach is known primarily as a leading proponent of the theories of Heinrich Schenker, an Austrian musician who died in 1935. Professor Beach has published over forty articles in leading academic journals and published/edited several books. Since his retirement, he has published/edited the following books: Aspects of Unity in J.S. Bach's Partitas and Suites (Rochester, 2005), Advanced Schenkerian Analysis (Routledge, 2012), Analysis of 18th- and 19th-Century Musical Works in the Classical Tradition (co-authored with Prof. Ryan McClelland; Routledge, 2012), Bach to Brahms (co-edited with Josef Goldenberg; Rochester, 2015), Explorations in Schenkerian Analysis (co-edited with Su Yin Mak; Rochester, 2016), and The Mature Instrumental Music of Franz Schubert (Rochester, 2017).