Daphne Leong

Associate Professor of Music Theory

Email: Daphne.Leong@colorado.edu
Office Location: Room N131, Imig Music Building
Office Phone: 303-492-4337
Mailing Address: 301 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0301

Daphne Leong is Associate Professor of Music Theory.   Her research interests include rhythm, especially in post-tonal music, analysis and performance, and the music of Béla Bartók.  She received the Young Scholar Award of the Theory Society of New York State for her article “Metric Conflict in Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion,” and the university’s Junior Faculty Development Award for her work on Bartók’s Violin Rhapsodies.  Her publications appear or are forthcoming in Journal of Music Theory, Intégral, Theory and Practice, Music Theory Online, Gamut, and Acta Musicologica.  She has presented papers and invited papers and lecture-recitals at numerous national and international venues.

Leong is also an active pianist and chamber musician. In recent years she has performed in the United States, Canada, England, Romania, and Hong Kong.  Her repertoire ranges from Bach to premieres of current music;  her principal teachers were David Burge, Douglas Humpherys, and Robert Harrison.  Leong was founding chair of the “Performance and Analysis” Interest Group of the national Society for Music Theory.  She holds a Ph.D (music theory), M.A. (music theory), and M.Mus. (piano performance) from the Eastman School of Music. 

Online Publications:
Leong, and David Korevaar, "The Performer's Voice: Performance and Analysis in Ravel's Concerto pour la main gauche," Music Theory Online 11/3 (September 2005).

Leong, and Elizabeth McNutt. "Virtuosity in Babbitt's Lonely Flute," Music Theory Online 11/1 (March 2005).