The School of Music is excited to announce Edward Klorman as Professor of Music Theory starting Fall 2025.

“I am thrilled to be joining the Mead Witter School of Music,” Klorman said. “One couldn’t ask for a more dynamic, visionary group of colleagues to work with. And since my father and sister both studied at UW, it seems that coming to Madison is a family tradition.”

Klorman’s research examines the intersections of music analysis, historical musicology, and music performance. He is the author of Mozart’s Music of Friends: Social Interplay in the Chamber Works (Cambridge, 2016), which won major awards from ASCAP, the Mozart Society of America, and the Society for Music Theory. His second book, Bach: The Cello Suites (Cambridge, 2025) examines how the Cello Suites, once dismissed as historical curiosities, have come to occupy such a prominent place in both concert life and popular culture. He has published and lectured widely at conservatories, universities, and music festivals across North America, Europe, and Asia.

An accomplished violist specializing in chamber music, he has performed as guest artist with the Borromeo, Orion, and Ying Quartets and with the Lysander Trio and was founding co-artistic director of ChamberFest Canandaigua. He is featured in three chamber music albums on Albany Records.

As baroque violist, he has performed in recital with harpsichordist Hank Knox and with Arion Orchestre Baroque, Les Boréades de Montréal, and Les Temps Perdus. He has previously taught music analysis and coached chamber music at The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, McGill University, the Aaron Copland School of Music, and the Music@Menlo festival. He is proud co-parent to Ellis, a rambunctious Portuguese Water Dog, who is not especially enamored of music theory.

Learn more about Klorman at edwardklorman.com.