Stephen A. CristChair, Department of MusicProfessor of Music

• PhDBrandeis University1988
• MMusUniversity of South Florida1980
• BAHarvard University1978

Stephen A. Crist is a musicologist who works largely in European music of the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, with additional interests in jazz and hymnody.

His work has been published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Illinois Press, University of Rochester Press, and A-R Editions, and in BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute (5 articles), Bach Perspectives (4 articles), Understanding Bach, Journal of Musicology, Notes (Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association), Early Music, and many other books and journals. His latest publication is a two-volume scholarly edition of the complete vocal works of Johann Ludwig Krebs, one of the best students of J. S. Bach (A-R Editions, 2025). Current projects include The Cambridge Companion to the Bach Cantatas (coedited with Daniel R. Melamed) and The Cambridge History of Christian Sacred Music since 1500 (coedited with Markus Rathey), both of which are under contract to be published by Cambridge University Press.

He has presented his research in venues such as Lincoln Center and the Library of Congress; at many universities, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Washington University, and Indiana University; and at international conferences in England, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Poland, and New Zealand. His scholarship has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory, and the University of Cambridge (Derek Brewer Visiting Research Fellowship, Emmanuel College).