Sylvie Tran

ABOUT

Sylvie Tran is a music theorist who studies questions of music, place, and identity, primarily in American classical music. Her current research examines portrayals of the American West in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art music and music for the stage through lenses of race, gender, landscape, and other issues. Her secondary research, drawing from her experience as a flutist, deals with performance and analysis, particularly the intersubjective aspects of chamber music performance as well as the politics of reorchestration and arrangements/transcriptions.

Tran holds a Ph.D. in music theory from the University of Michigan and a B.M. in flute performance from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She previously taught courses in music theory, aural skills, and keyboard harmony at Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Michigan.