Zoe Browder Doll, DMA

A seasoned performer and teacher for more than 25 years, Dr. Zoe Browder Doll has received a Fulbright Scholarship (2002-2003, The Netherlands), been an Artist-in-Residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Alberta, Canada), and is a published author (featured in Berio’s Sequenzas, Ashgate Press 2003). She received her Master’s and Doctorate in Piano from Stony Brook University and her Bachelor of Music in Piano from the University of North Texas. She gave her New York solo recital debut at Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall in 2000, performing the works of contemporary composers. From 2012 to 2022, she served as Chair of the Piano Program for Rutgers Community Arts (formerly the Mason Gross Extension Division), and was Founding Coordinator of the Young Maestros program there. She teaches privately in East Brunswick, where she resides with her husband and daughter. Her students participate in area festivals and competitions, as well as the Royal Conservatory of Music assessments, and several have performed in winner’s recitals at Carnegie Hall. Dr. Doll is a member of the New Jersey Music Teacher’s Association, Music Teachers National Association, and is a Founding Instructor for the Royal Conservatory Music Development Program.

Christopher Doll, PhD

Dr. Christopher Doll is Associate Professor in the Mason Gross School of the Arts, and the School of Graduate Studies, at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He earned degrees from Case Western Reserve University/the Cleveland Institute of Music (B.A. magna cum laude), the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (M.M.), and Columbia University (M.Phil., Ph.D. with Distinction), and he was a Graduate Council Fellow at Stony Brook University (2000-2002) where he met his wife. He is the author of several academic articles and reviews, as well as the music-theory treatise Hearing Harmony: Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era (University of Michigan Press). He has served as a grader for AP Music Theory exams and as a forensic musicological expert for copyright-infringement lawsuits. He regularly peer-reviews submissions to academic presses and journals.

His present hobbies include roller coasting (RIP Kingda Ka), ethics and moral philosophy, social-media restraint, and steelmanning.