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Christopher Chowrimootoo holds a concurrent Associate Professor appointment in the Department of Music at the University of Notre Dame, and serves as a Faculty Fellow at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. He teaches in the MSM and DMA programs of Sacred Music at Notre Dame. His research bridges music history, historiography, and aesthetics, challenging traditional high/low cultural divides through the lens of 'middlebrow' mediation.
- PhD (Historical Musicology), Harvard University
- MSt (Musicology) with Distinction, Merton College, Oxford
- B.A. (Music) First Class Honors, Oxford
Key works include Middlebrow Modernism: Britten’s Operas and the Great Divide (UC Press, 2018), and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Music and the Middlebrow. His current project Sacred Secularism examines spiritual dimensions in 20th-century concert music.
Editorial roles include Journal of the Royal Musical Association and Cambridge's Elements in Music Since 1945. Awards include the RMA Jerome Roche Prize and Kurt Weill Foundation Prize for his Death in Venice article analyzing operatic sublimation aesthetics.
