Andrew Davis
Director of Graduate Studies
Assistant Professor of Music Theory

e-mail: adavis@uh.edu
personal page: http://www.uh.edu/~adavis5
office: MSM 152
office phone: (713)743-3294
address: 120 School of Music Bldg, Houston, TX 77204-4017

Andrew Davis conducts research in late-19th and early-20th century opera. Recent publications include “Rotational Form in the Opening Scene of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess,” coauthored with colleague Howard Pollack (also of the University of Houston) and published in the Fall 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Musicological Society; and “Turandot and the Modern Puccini,” published in 2007, in Spanish translation, in the yearbook of the ABAO–OLBE, Asociación Bilbaina de Amigos de la Ópera in Bilbao, Spain. Recent lectures include a talk in February 2008 to the Texas Society for Music Theory, on “Abbate’s Voices, Hatten’s Levels, and Puccini’s Cloak,”a paper on
"Structural Symmetry in Hofmannsthal's Ariadne Auf Naxos Libretto" to the 6th European Music Analysis Conference in October 2007 in Freiburg, Germany; a guest lecture in July 2008 on "Turandot and Puccini's Late Style" to the Freie University, Berlin; and, in September 2008, a paper on "Musical Forms, Text Forms, and Uses of Convention in Il Tabarro" to an international conference in Taipei in honor of Puccini's 150th birthday. His book on modernism in Puccini's late operas will be published in 2009.

Davis has served as assistant editor of the Indiana Theory Review, maintained web sites for the New England Conference of Music Theorists and the Moores School of Music, and continues to perform as a saxophonist in metropolitan Houston. He was appointed to the faculty of the Moores School of Music in 2003, has served as Director of Graduate Studies in the school of music since 2006, and teaches core undergraduate music theory courses as well as graduate seminars in the history and analysis of opera, the pedagogy of music theory, and other topics. He holds the Ph.D. in music theory from Indiana University, a Master’s degree in music theory from the University of Massachusetts, and a Bachelor's degree in music (summa cum laude, with a performer's certificate in saxophone performance and a minor and honors in Geography) from the Pennsylvania State University.