Encuentro Filipino - Organizers
William John Summers, Ph. D. Dr. William John Summers joined Dartmouth's music department faculty in 1984. He served as department chair from 1984-1987, and has been on a number of important college committees including the Executive Committee of the Faculty. He teaches a broad range of music history courses covering the ninth through the nineteenth centuries. Specialty courses he teaches at Dartmouth are devoted to W. A. Mozart and L. v. Beethoven. Many of his advisees have won prestigious awards and scholarships, and completed graduate study in universities and conservatories in Germany, England and the U. S.
Bill's wide-ranging research specialties involve music in medieval Britain, sacred music in Rome at the end of the sixteenth century, music of the missions of Alta California and music in church and theatre from colonial Manila, 1571-1898. He has authored two books and approximately 70 articles and reviews in fifteen different scholarly journals published in English and Spanish. For the past twelve years Bill has traveled annually to the Philippines to conducted research in the principal archive and repositories of historical materials in Manila on music in Philippine history. Five articles and one music encyclopedia article devoted to the city of Manila, have been published detailing his discoveries and findings. His current work focuses on music in 19th-century Manila, and also upon the role of Spanish sacred music in parochial life on the Island of Bohol in the first half of the 20th century.
For the past fourteen Bill has served as the Coordinator of the International Hispanic Music Study Group, a confederation of approximately 75 scholars working world wide on the diverse musics from the great Luso-Hispanic tradition. He has presented short courses, graduate seminars and delivered research papers on five continents. He presently serves on the governing boards of the Institute for Mexican Music, The Foundation for Iberian Music and the American Radio Choir.
Walter A. Clark, Ph. D. Walter Aaron Clark is a professor of musicology and the chair of the music department at the University of California, Riverside, where he is the founder/director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music. Prof. Clark is the author of several books, including Isaac Albéniz: Portrait of a Romantic (1999) and Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano (2006), both published by Oxford University Press. The Granados biography won the 2006 Robert M. Stevenson Award. He also edited and contributed to the Routledge volume From Tejano to Tango: Latin American Popular Music (2002). His research has appeared in numerous reference sources, scholarly journals, and edited volumes, on topics as diverse as the lute and vihuela intabulations of Josquin's Mille Regretz, Albéniz's opera Merlin, the Hollywood musicals of Carmen Miranda, the guitar studies of Fernando Sor, and Ralph Vaughan Williams's opera Riders to the Sea. He is the editor of a new series from Oxford entitled Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music. He is also editing and contributing to a textbook on Latin American music, due out from Norton in 2009, and he is co-authoring another Oxford biography, on Federico Moreno Torroba.