The Catholic University of America

Robert Stevenson, (Ph.D., University of Rochester; M.M., Yale University; S.T.B., Harvard University; Th.M., Princeton Theological Seminary; A.B., University of Texas; B.L., Oxford University),), adjunct professor, The Latin American Center for Graduate Studies in Music. Renowned musicologist and professor emeritus, the University of California in Los Angeles, whose prolific publications include writings on Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese music, and the Italian Renaissance and Baroque. Scholarly books include Music in Mexico, Historical Survey (1952); Patterns of Protestant Church Music (1953); Cathedral Music in Colonial Peru (1959); Spanish Cathedral Music in the Golden Age (1961); Renaissance and Baroque Musical Sources in the Americas (1970); Guide to Caribbean Music History (1975); Antología da Música Portuguesa, 1490-1680 (1984); and La Música en Las Catedrales españolas del Siglo de Oro (1993). Has contributed to more than 400 articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and has written numerous articles in journals and books. Took private composition lessons with Igor Stravinsky (1939), studied piano with Arthur Schnabel (1940), and has performed recitals as a concert pianist in the United States and the United Kingdom. Has served on the faculties of the University of Texas, Westminster Choir College and the University of California in Los Angeles. Recipient of research and teaching awards, fellowships, an honorary doctorate in music from The Catholic University of America and the Cátedra Robert Stevenson de Musicología at the Real Conservatorio Superior at Madrid. First recipient of the Cátedra Jesús C. Romero de Musicología at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the Sonneck Society for American Music. Named honorary member of the American Musicological Society. 2004 recipient of the Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award at the University of California. As of 2006, honorary member of the International Musicological Society in the U.S.A., award bestowed upon him by the Directorium of the I.M.S. as a mark of his magnificent contribution to musicology.