Peter Silberman (mtsnyspresident@gmail.com) is Associate Professor of Music Theory and chair of the Department of Composition and Music Studies at the Ithaca College School of Music, Theatre, and Dance. His research interests include music theory pedagogy, the theory and analysis of neotonal music of the twentieth century, and the analysis of popular music. His articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of Popular Music Education, College Music Symposium, Gamut: Online Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Music Theory Online, The Horn Call, and in the anthologies The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches and Musical Currents from the Left Coast. He holds a B.Mus. degree in French horn performance and music theory from Oberlin Conservatory and an M.A. and Ph.D. in music theory from the Eastman School of Music. Peter previously served MTSNYS as Vice President (2020–2024), Treasurer (2008–2012 and 2014–2016), and as a Board Member (2012–2014).

Táhirih Motazedian (mtsnysvicepresident@gmail.com) is an Associate Professor of Music at Vassar College. Her book, Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film (University of California Press, 2023) explores how key and pitch relationships in film soundtracks tell a story, and was awarded the Society for Music Theory’s Emerging Scholar Book Award.  She has published articles and chapters on a range of topics, including Sergei Eisenstein’s production of Wagner’s Die Walküre, the “heartstring schema” in film and nineteenth-century music, Holst’s Planets, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake in the film Black Swan, and Shostakovich’s second violin concerto.  She currently serves as Associate Editor of the SMT-V journal.  Táhirih earned her PhD in music theory from Yale University, and before that, she was a planetary scientist at NASA.

Stephanie Venturino (mtsnyssecretary@gmail.com) is an assistant professor of music analysis and musicianship at the Yale School of Music. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century French music, the history of music theory, and music theory and aural skills pedagogy. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Music Theory Online, Music Theory and Analysis, and Theoria: Historical Aspects of Music Theory, as well as in edited collections from Cambridge University Press, Routledge, and University of Rochester Press. She is co-editor of and contributor to Chromatic Harmony: Methodological Approaches in Dialogue (Routledge, 2027), an ecumenical exploration—through the lens of Alma Mahler-Werfel’s “Ich wandle unter Blumen”—of how differing outlooks on chromatic harmony interact with, diverge from, and complement one another. She also serves as reviews editor for Theory and Practice and chair of the SMT Student Presentation Award Committee. A native of Rochester, N.Y., she holds degrees in music theory (Ph.D., M.A., B.M.) and classical saxophone performance (B.M. with Performer’s Certificate) from the Eastman School of Music.

Anna Stephan-Robinson (mtsnystreasurer@gmail.com) is Professor and Director of Music Theory and Ear Training at West Liberty University in West Virginia, where she has taught Musicianship, all levels of Music Theory and Ear Training, and applied horn. Her areas of research interest include music pedagogy, analysis of twentieth- and twenty-first-century concert and popular music, and music of American women composers, particularly that of Katherine Ruth Heyman and Marion Bauer. She has presented at international, national, and regional conferences, and published in journals including Music Theory Online and the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy. In addition to serving as MTSNYS treasurer, Anna has served as Vice President of MTSMA and Secretary-Treasurer of the Allegheny Chapter of AMS. She holds a Ph.D. degree in music theory from the Eastman School of Music, an M.M. in horn performance from The University of Georgia, and a B.A. in Music Education from the Aaron Copland School of Music.

Hanisha Kulothparan is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Rochester. She holds a PhD in Music Theory from the Eastman School of Music. Hanisha’s dissertation takes an intercultural approach to analyzing form in post-millennial Tamil film songs, exploring how different cultural influences interact and coexist within this genre. Her broader research interests include the study of flow in rap through a rhythmic/metric lens as well as investigating intersections between music analysis and critical theories. Hanisha’s work is published in Modeling Musical Analysis (Oxford University Press) and American Music. She received the Irna Priore Prize (2021) and Colvin Award (2022) for her scholarship.

Jacob Eichhorn is music theorist and clarinetist living in San Antonio, TX. He is Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at San Antonio and a Ph.D. candidate in music theory at the Eastman School of Music. He also holds a M.M. in music theory and a D.M.A. in clarinet performance and pedagogy from the University of Colorado Boulder. His dissertation develops an approach to musical meaning in twentieth- and twenty-first-century experimental music through a materialist and posthumanist lens while borrowing critical concepts from science fiction like the alien other, the cyborg, and dystopian futures. His broader research interests include topic theory, semiotics, and theories of action and agency in mid-century American tonal music, Broadway musicals, and popular and roots musics. In 2026, Jacob was named a recipient of the Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student, and, in 2024, he was awarded the Eastman School of Music’s TA Prize for Teaching Excellence. He also received the 2025 Dorothy Payne Award (MTSMA) and the 2023 Irna Priore Prize for Student Research (MTSE) for his scholarship.

Ruixue Hu (pronunciation: “Ray-Shweh Hoo”) is a Ph.D. candidate in Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music. Focusing on East Asian music, historical and contemporary, his research concerns form, kinesthetics, and the intersection of music and language. His dissertation, “Harmony in Diversity: Theorizing Form, Performance, and Aesthetics in Traditional Qin Music,” explores form as a pivot for insights into organology, kinesthetics, and aesthetics in the oldest Chinese chordophone. His work on the qin has been supported by the Presser Foundation, the American Musicological Society, and the Society for Music Theory. His syllabus, “Engaging with Timbre,” received an Honorable Mention for SMT’s Diversity Course Design Award. A current co-chair of SMT’s Analysis of World Musics Interest Group, Ruixue holds an MMus by Research from Durham University and a BA in Composition from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Rebecca Moranis is a Ph.D. candidate in music theory and analysis at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), and teaches at Hunter College and the Mannes School of Music. She researches timbre and its relationships to dance using techniques from music analysis, music information retrieval, and music cognition. Her research is published in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, and she is the recipient of the Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award from the Music Theory Society of New York State (MTSNYS) and the Student Presentation Award from the Society for Music Theory (SMT). Her graduate research is supported by a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is also an active flutist and dances professionally with Opera Atelier.