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Robert Shay is Professor of Musicology at the University of Colorado Boulder where he previously served as Dean of the College of Music from 2014 to 2020. His writings on the music of Henry Purcell and 17th-century England are well known鈥攑articularly the book听鈥淧urcell Manuscripts: The Principal Musical Sources鈥澨�(Cambridge University Press, co-authored with Robert Thompson), a recipient of the Music Library Association鈥檚 Vincent H. Duckles Award given annually to 鈥渢he best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music.鈥澨齋hay鈥檚 articles and reviews have appeared in Early Music,听Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Music & Letters and听Notes, and he has contributed chapters to the books听鈥淧urcell Studies鈥澨�(Cambridge University Press) and听鈥淜ing Arthur in Music鈥澨�(D. S. Brewer).听His of Purcell鈥檚 opera, 鈥淒ido and Aeneas,鈥� appeared in April 2023 (B盲renreiter) and his next editorial project is 鈥淜ing Arthur鈥� by the same composer.
Shay听is a founding member of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, having served as treasurer, nominating committee chair, program committee chair and conference host (Boulder, 2018). He has presented papers at the national meetings of the American Musicological Society and the Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, among other organizations, and has been an invited lecturer at Brandeis University, Northwestern University, the Round Top Early Music Festival, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Western Illinois University.
Shay听previously served as Professor and听Director of the School of Music at the University of Missouri (2008-14), and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Conservatory at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts (2000-08).听From 1991 to 2000, he was on the faculty at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas, where he directed the Concert Choir and taught courses in music history.听He was a visiting professor at Duke University in 1999-2000.听
Shay holds the MA and PhD in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the MM听in choral conducting from the New England Conservatory of Music and the BM in vocal performance from Wheaton College (Illinois).听He studied voice and conducting during two summers at the Aspen Music School and participated in Harvard University鈥檚 Institute for Educational Management in 2006.