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 also 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). He is the author of Hearing Harmony: Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era, a monograph published by the University of Michigan Press in its Tracking Pop series, and his articles and reviews appear in Gamut, Music Theory Online, Music Theory Spectrum, Indiana Theory Review, Journal of Music Theory, Dutch Journal of Music Theory, SMT-V, SMT-Pod, BACH, Notes, Music & Science, Popular Music, Popular Music and Society, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Journal of the Society for American Music, and other venues. He has presented his research for conferences and colloquia at Oxford, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, New York, and Northwestern Universities, among many others, as well as at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (Cleveland) and the Museum of Pop Culture (Seattle). He has served on the Society for Music Theory’s Committee on Diversity, the College Music Society’s Committee on Cultural Inclusion, the program committees of the Music Theory Society of New York State and the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, and the editorial boards of Music Theory Online, SMT-V, and Current Musicology. He regularly serves as a peer-reviewer for Oxford University Press, University of Michigan Press, W. W. Norton, Bloomsbury Press, and many journals, as well as a grader for the AP Music Theory exam and as a forensic-musicology expert for copyright-infringement lawsuits.

Past, present, and future hobbies: fishkeeping, wine tasting, mixology, movies, roller coasters, still and video photography, volunteering for Girl Scouts, chess, cubing, variant-rule Sudoku, SimCity, The Sims, Civilization, ethics and moral philosophy, social-media restraint, steelmanning.