Stephanie Venturino
“I want each student to embrace the relevance of analysis and musicianship for every aspect of music-making. My classrooms are spaces for creative exploration, places where practical, technical, historical, and cultural understandings of music freely and deliberately mix.”
Stephanie Venturino
Dr. Stephanie Venturino is a music theorist specializing in the analysis of twentieth- and twenty-first-century French music, the history of music theory, and music theory and aural skills pedagogy. Her work is published or forthcoming in Music Theory Online 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 also a co-editor of and contributor to Chromatic Harmony: Methodological Approaches in Dialogue (Routledge, 2027), a collection of analytical essays centered on the vocal music of Alma Mahler-Werfel.
Venturino currently serves as reviews editor for Theory and Practice, secretary for the Music Theory Society of New York State, and as a member of the Student Presentation Award Committee for the Society for Music Theory. She regularly presents her research at leading professional conferences in the United States and abroad; she also gives pre-concert talks at venues across Connecticut.
Equally at home on the concert stage, Venturino has extensive ensemble, chamber, and solo experience. She has been a member of the Eastman Saxophone Project, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, and Musica Nova. She has also garnered top prizes at numerous local, regional, and national solo and chamber music competitions. Venturino holds degrees in classical saxophone performance (B.M. with performer’s certificate) and music theory (B.M., M.A., Ph.D.) from the Eastman School of Music. She also earned an advanced certificate in online teaching from the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development.
At the Yale School of Music, Venturino is Assistant Professor, Adj., of Music Analysis and Musicianship. She teaches core analysis and musicianship classes, as well as seminars focusing on twentieth- and twenty-first-century music. A dynamic and innovative teacher, Venturino is a recipient of the University of Rochester’s Educational IT Innovation Grant, Eastman’s TA Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and the Eastman Community Music School’s Jack L. Frank Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is currently on the faculty advisory board for Yale’s Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning.
