Yayoi Uno Everett Associate Professor, Music Theory Music Department Emory University 1804 North Decatur Road, #334 Atlanta, GA 30322 404-727-3835 404-727-0074 FAX yeveret@emory.edu Music Theory at Emory

Professor Yayoi Uno Everett is a native of Yokohama, Japan. Her research specializes on the analysis of postwar art music through the perspectives of cultural studies, film studies, literary theories, semiotics, and East Asian aesthetics. She is currently working on a book on contemporary operas by Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun. Her recent publications include articles on Toru Takemitsu’s film music for Double Suicide (Journal of Film Music, forthcoming), Toshio Hosokawa’s Voiceless Voice for Hiroshima (Aracne, forthcoming), CD liner notes for Lei Liang: Brush-stroke (Mode Records 2009), György Ligeti’s opera Le Grand Macabre (Music Theory Spectrum 31/1, 2009), postwar Japanese avant-garde music (Sound Commitments: Avant-garde Music in the Sixties, ed. Robert Adlington, Oxford University Press, 2009), and gesture and calligraphy in Chou Wen-chung's late works (Contemporary Music Review 27/2, 2007). In addition, she authored a monograph entitled The Music of Louis Andriessen (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and co-edited the volume Locating East Asia in Western Art Music (Wesleyan University Press, 2004).

She is the recipient of the Society for Music Theory Subvention award and grants from the Japan Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Asian Cultural Council, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Woodruff Presidential Fund, University Research Committee (Emory University), Campus Research Board Funding (University of Illinois), Junior Faculty Development Award (University of Colorado), and scholarships from the Goethe Institute (Vienna, Austria) and the Aspen Music Festival. Prior to coming to Emory, she taught Music Theory at the University of Colorado (1992-99) and at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (1999-2000). She has also served on the Test Development Committee for the Advanced Placement in Music Theory (Educational Testing Service: Princeton, NJ) during 1997-2000. She is currently secretary for Music Theory Southeast and serves on the Executive Board for The Society for Music Theory.

Dr. Everett completed a B.A. at Lewis & Clark College; an M.A. at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and a Ph.D. at the Eastman School of Music in 1994.