Daphne Leong

Assistant 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 Assistant Professor of Music Theory. Her research interests include analysis and performance, rhythm in post-tonal music, 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 in Intégral, Theory and Practice, Music Theory Online, and Acta Musicologica.  She has presented her research at national conferences of the Society for Music Theory, and at international conferences in the United Kingdom and Romania, and has given invited lecture-recitals and papers in the United States, Hong Kong, and Romania. Leong is also an active pianist and chamber musician.  Recent chamber music performances include concerts at the Colorado Music Festival, Chautauqua, and on the University of Colorado Faculty Tuesday Series and Pendulum New Music Series.  Leong was founding chair of the "Performance and Analysis" Interest Group of the national Society for Music Theory. She received her PhD (music theory), MA (music theory), and MM (piano performance) from the Eastman School of Music. 

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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).