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Jeremy Grall
Director of School of Music/Associate Professor of Music
School of Music
Jeremy Grall
Director of School of Music/Associate Professor of Music
School of Music
Originally from Appleton, Wisconsin, Jeremy Grall received his Doctor of Musical Arts and Bachelor of Music degree in guitar performance, under the tutelage of Dr. Lily Afshar, from the University of Memphis. In 1999, he received the Master of Music degree in guitar performance from the Yale School of Music, where he was a scholarship student of Benjamin Verdery. In addition to his academic studies, Jeremy spent four summers studying as a scholarship student at the Aspen Music Festival with guitarist Sharon Isbin. Other summer workshops include the Ben Verdery Annual Guitar Workshop in Maui and the Phillip DeFremery/Verdery Summer Master class at Mt. Holyoake. He also has received additional coaching from such artists as Michael Nicolella, Oscar Ghiglia, Kevin Gallagher, Scott Tennant, Raphaella Smits, Seymour Bernstein, Ricardo Iznaola, Lorenzo Michelli, Adam Holzman, Stephen Aaron, and Stephen Robinson. Jeremy has also studied jazz guitar with former Count Basie Big Band guitarist, Charlton Johnson.
In 2001, Jeremy was first prizewinner of the classical guitar division of the Beethoven Club Young Artists Competition. Jeremy has performed concerts for the Connecticut Classical Guitar Society, Christian Brothers University Guest Artist Series, the Avanti Young Artists Series, and at the Aspen Music Festival. In 2009 when Jeremy received his D.M.A., he was nominated for the university-wide Morton Outstanding Dissertation Award.
In 2017 Jeremy received his Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from the University of Memphis. Jeremy’s research is concerned with the musical performance practices and theory of the Renaissance and Baroque, semiotics, jazz improvisation, and music cognition. Jeremy’s recent research is on the analysis and cognitive modeling of improvised music. He has presented his research at conferences such as the PopMac International Conference on Analyzing Popular Music in Liverpool, UK; EuroMac VII in Rome, Italy; the XI and XII International Congresses on Musical Signification in Poland and Belgium; Cardiff Music Analysis Conference in Wales, the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, the College Music Society, and at the Perspectives on Musical Improvisation II conference at the University of Oxford.
In music cognition, Jeremy has conducted research in the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Memphis Institute for Intelligent Systems under Dr. Gavin Bidelman. In the Bidelman Laboratory, Jeremy assisted in research funded by the Grammy Foundation involving EEG neuroimaging of the neural correlates of consonance and dissonance. The results of this study were published in the journal Neuroimage.
Before arriving at Purdue University Fort Wayne, Jeremy was an Associate Professor of Music at Birmingham-Southern College, where he was the Chair of the Department of Music before becoming the Lupton Area Chair. Jeremy has also previously been on the faculty of Sam Houston State University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Nashville State Community College, where he was also the music program director.
In 2001, Jeremy was first prizewinner of the classical guitar division of the Beethoven Club Young Artists Competition. Jeremy has performed concerts for the Connecticut Classical Guitar Society, Christian Brothers University Guest Artist Series, the Avanti Young Artists Series, and at the Aspen Music Festival. In 2009 when Jeremy received his D.M.A., he was nominated for the university-wide Morton Outstanding Dissertation Award.
In 2017 Jeremy received his Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from the University of Memphis. Jeremy’s research is concerned with the musical performance practices and theory of the Renaissance and Baroque, semiotics, jazz improvisation, and music cognition. Jeremy’s recent research is on the analysis and cognitive modeling of improvised music. He has presented his research at conferences such as the PopMac International Conference on Analyzing Popular Music in Liverpool, UK; EuroMac VII in Rome, Italy; the XI and XII International Congresses on Musical Signification in Poland and Belgium; Cardiff Music Analysis Conference in Wales, the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, the College Music Society, and at the Perspectives on Musical Improvisation II conference at the University of Oxford.
In music cognition, Jeremy has conducted research in the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Memphis Institute for Intelligent Systems under Dr. Gavin Bidelman. In the Bidelman Laboratory, Jeremy assisted in research funded by the Grammy Foundation involving EEG neuroimaging of the neural correlates of consonance and dissonance. The results of this study were published in the journal Neuroimage.
Before arriving at Purdue University Fort Wayne, Jeremy was an Associate Professor of Music at Birmingham-Southern College, where he was the Chair of the Department of Music before becoming the Lupton Area Chair. Jeremy has also previously been on the faculty of Sam Houston State University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Nashville State Community College, where he was also the music program director.