Faculty Biography

Marjorie Roth, Associate Professor


Contact:
(585) 389-2686
mroth1@naz.edu


Departmental Responsibilities:
Music History & Literature
Women's Studies
Applied Flute


Education:
Eastman School of Music, Ph.D.
Eastman School of Music, DMA
Eastman School of Music, MA
Eastman School of Music, MM
University of Wisconsin, BA


Biography:
Dr. Marjorie Roth holds the position of Associate Professor of Music History and Flute at Nazareth College.  She was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin and received her Bachelor's degree in Flute Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside (1981). She studied flute at the graduate level with Bonita Boyd, earning both a Master's degree (1986) and a Doctoral degree (1998) in Performance & Literature from the Eastman School of Music.  She completed a Master of Arts degree in Musicology (1990) and spent one month working as a research assistant at the Gesellschaft für Musikfreunde in Vienna, Austria (1996).  Subsequently, Dr. Roth spent a year in Vienna as a Fulbright scholar (1998-99), followed by a year of research and writing supported by Eastman's Elsa T. Johnson dissertation fellowship.  She completed her Ph.D. in Musicology in 2005 with a dissertation entitled “The Voice of Prophecy:  Orlando di Lasso’s Sibyls and Italian Humanism.” An active scholar and pedagogue, Dr. Roth has taught studio flute lessons since 1973 and classroom music history since 1988.  She has read scholarly papers at a national meeting of the American Musicological Society (Washington D.C., 2005), at two regional AMS meetings (Hamilton, Ontario, 2003 and Cornell University, 2004), and at a meeting of the College Music Society (Quebec City, 2005).  In 2006 she was invited to present a plenary session as part of an international conference entitled An Esoteric Quest in Central Europe:  From Renaissance Bohemia to Goethe’s Weimar, which took place in Germany and the Czech Republic.  She has recently had an article accepted for publication in a proposed Oxford Handbook of Western Esotericism.  Other publications include an essay in a collection of writings devoted to music history pedagogy (Teaching Music History, Ashgate Press, 2002), concert and masterclass reviews in the Newsletter of the Rochester Flute Association, as well as concert previews in Rochester’s City Newspaper.  During the summer of 2007, Dr. Roth taught a music history course for Nazareth students through the College’s summer study abroad program based in Pescara, Italy.  She continues to perform as a free-lance flutist and as a member of Rochester’s women’s chant enselmble Schola Feminarum.  Her non-professional interests include kayaking, cooking, and cats.