Denise Von Glahn

Denise Von Glahn is Professor of Musicology in the College of Music at Florida State University where she served as Director of the Center for Music of the Americas for twelve years and Curtis Mayes Orpheus Professor and Coordinator of the Musicology Area for seven. She currently serves as President of the Society for American Music. Her scholarly interests include the music of Charles Ives, music and place, ecomusicology, music and identity, music and gender, music and institutions, and biography. She has published essays, articles, and book chapters, as well as a critical edition of Leo Ornstein’s Quintette for Piano and Strings, and five books: The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape, (which won the 2004 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award); Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices, written with Michael Broyles, (which won the 2009 Irving Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music); Music and the Skillful Listener: American Women Compose the Natural World, (which won the 2015 Pauline Alderman Award from the International Alliance for Women in Music); Libby Larsen: Composing an American Life, (2017, a part of the University of Illinois Press, Music in American Life Series); and Circle of Winners: How the Guggenheim Foundation Composer Awards Shaped American Music Culture thatappeared in 2023 and won Von Glahn a second ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. She takes enormous pleasure in working with students and directing theses and dissertations on a range of topics that explore twentieth and twenty-first century music, and US American music culture and has been recognized at two different universities with awards for excellence in teaching. She is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for American Music and the College of Music Service Award at FSU.