John Turci-Escobar
Assistant Professor, Theory
jturcies@artsci.wustl.edu

John Turci-Escobar earned a B.A. from Rutgers University (1996) and a Ph.D. from Yale University (2004). His primary area of interest is the late Italian madrigal. Secondary areas of interest include nineteenth-century chromaticism, Classical form, the music of Astor Piazzolla, and broader issues in music and meaning. John has presented his work at regional and national conferences. He is currently writing a series of articles on the music of Carlo Gesualdo. The first, "Softening the Edges: Cadential Attenuation in the Madrigals of Carlo Gesualdo," will appear in Theory and Practice (2007). He is also preparing a book on chromaticism in the late sixteenth-century madrigal. John has received a Robert M. Leylan Prize Dissertation Fellowship and a Mellon Dissertation Research Grant. His commitment to teaching has been recognized by a Lilly Teaching Fellowship and a Prize Teaching Fellowship from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale University. Before coming to Washington University in St. Louis, John taught at the University of Georgia.