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
Stephanie Venturino’s research focuses on 20th- and 21st-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 regularly presents at leading professional conferences in the United States and abroad.
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.
At the Yale School of Music, Venturino is Assistant Professor, Adjunct, of Music Analysis and Musicianship. 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.
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, where her dissertation—on the concept of resonance in French music and music theory from 1900 to 1960—was supported by the University of Rochester’s Raymond N. Ball Fellowship. She also earned an advanced certificate in online teaching from the Warner School of Education.
