Peter Silberman is Associate Professor of Music Theory and chair of the Department of Music Theory, History, and Composition at the Ithaca College School of Music, Theatre, and Dance. He also serves as coordinator of music theory and electives at Ithaca College’s Summer Music Academy, a residential camp for high school musicians. 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).

Loretta Terrigno is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music. Her articles and reviews appear in Music Theory Online, Music Analysis, Music Research Forum, and Rethinking Brahms (ed. Nicole Grimes and Reuben Phillips, published by Oxford University Press in 2022), Notes: the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, and the American Brahms Society newsletter. She serves as Secretary and Membership Chair for the American Brahms Society and on the editorial board of Music Theory Online. She is also an editorial board member for the Journal for Music Theory Pedagogy. She is a pianist and holds degrees in performance from the Mannes College of Music and a PhD in music theory and musicology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Stephanie Venturino is an assistant professor of analysis and musicianship at the Yale School of Music. She holds a Ph.D. in music theory and a B.M. in saxophone performance from the Eastman School of Music. Her research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century French music, the history of music theory, and music theory and aural skills pedagogy. She regularly presents her work at regional, national, and international conferences. Stephanie has contributed scholarship to Theoria, as well as to edited collections from Cambridge University Press and Routledge.

Anna Stephan-Robinson 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.

Ruka Shironishi is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of music theory and aural skills both at The New School University (Mannes School Of Music) and Queens College (CUNY). She holds a Ph.D. in music theory from CUNY Graduate Center and B.M. in piano performance from San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Her current research focuses on the type of modal harmony that was created as the result of the plainchant revival in nineteenth-century France. At the 2023 annual meeting of MTSNYS, she presented a paper titled “Modal Cadences in the Tonality of Plainchant.” In addition to being a pianist, Ruka is also an active performer of Balinese gamelan. She travels regularly to Bali as a member of Yowana Sari to perform and research the tradition of Balinese music.

Lukas is a PhD candidate in Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music and joins the faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in Fall 2024 as a full-time Lecturer in Music Theory. His research interests include the harmonic syntax of Maurice Duruflé’s diatonic modal works and semiotics in videogame and film music. His dissertation develops a harmonic analysis system for Duruflé by incorporating traditional Riemannian functional theory, functional mixture, the double-tonic complex, and principles of the French plainchant reform movement. Additionally, he has presented on the semiotic and leitmotivic expression of “home” in the music of The Legend of Zelda, stylistic juxtapositions of pop and jazz as indicators of authenticity in La La Land, and the incorporation of Isabella Leonarda’s trio sonatas into the counterpoint classroom. In 2023, Lukas was named a recipient of the Eastman School of Music’s Teaching Assistant Prize. As a pianist, organist, and choral conductor, Lukas has served in numerous positions, including full-time Music Director at Church of the Assumption (St. Paul, MN), Artistic Director of the Minnesota Center Chorale, and Assistant Conductor of the Oratorio Society of Minnesota.

Jacob Eichhorn is a clarinetist and music theorist in Rochester, NY. He is a PhD candidate in music theory at the Eastman school of music and holds a DMA in clarinet performance and pedagogy from the University of Colorado Boulder. His research focuses on musical meaning in twentieth- and twenty-first century concert music with a secondary interest in Dolly Parton and American roots musics. In his dissertation, “Daughter-Flower-(Whale)-Kaiju: Experimental Music as Science Fiction,” he borrows science fiction reading strategies to listen to and think about experimental music. He is the recipient of the 2024 Eastman TA Prize for Teaching Excellence, the 2023 Irna Priore Prize for Student Research (MTSE), and the 2025 Dorothy Payne Award (MTSMA). He performs regularly with new music ensembles at Eastman, and he is bass clarinetist for Colorado MahlerFest.

Hanisha Kulothparan is a Ph.D. Candidate in Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music, and was recently appointed Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Rochester. She holds degrees from Michigan State University and Wilfrid Laurier University. 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.