Loretta Terrigno

Loretta Terrigno is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. She has held teaching positions at The Juilliard School, Hofstra University, Hunter College, Columbia University, and The Mannes College of Music.

• Education
  • Performance degrees from The Mannes College of Music
  • PhD in Music Theory and Musicology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Her research explores interdisciplinary connections between music and text in 19th- and 20th-century German and English art song, temporal structures in music, and pedagogical approaches to music theory. She also investigates how performance practices intersect with analytical frameworks.

Key Contributions

• Published in Music Theory Online, Music Analysis, and Music Research Forum
• Co-authored works on Brahms’s temporality in solo songs and source studies of his late folksong settings
• Contributor to Rethinking Brahms, focusing on analytical methodologies

Academic Leadership

• Editorial board member of The Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy Online
• Active board member of the American Brahms Society
• Former Board Member-at-Large for the Music Theory Society of New York State (2016–2022)