Jocelyn Dueck

Dr. Jocelyn Dueck is an Assistant Professor of Collaborative Arts at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Music, specializing in prosody, auditory coding, and linguistics. A renowned pianist and scholar, she has premiered works by composers such as Lembit Beecher and Lisa Bielawa, and led the revival of Louis Durey’s unpublished songs via her album Durey Rediscovered. Her research spans music-language intersections, with contributions to Adobe’s Readability Matters consortium improving reading fluency through prosody analysis. She founded Courante LLC to study flow states in human/machine language-music interactions.

Active in opera, Dueck coaches at Wolf Trap Opera and the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Program. She holds a doctorate in Collaborative Piano from CMU and has taught at Juilliard, Bard, and NYU. Awards include grants from the Classical Recording Foundation and a Tanglewood Fellowship. Her performances span Europe, the U.S., and China, with notable collaborations on the Five Borough Songbook and cabaret projects.