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Lester Brothers, PhD

Chair: Department of Music

Office: Utt 111
Telephone: 660-543-4530
email: lbrothers@ucmo.edu

Joined UCM Faculty in 2006.

Dr. Brothers recently chaired the Division of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology at the University of North Texas. He received his bachelor of arts from California State University, Fresno and his master's and doctoral degrees from University of California at Los Angeles.

Brothers had been on the faculty of the University of North Texas College of Music since 1974. He served as special assistant to the provost, UNT, 1994-1997. Research interests in which he has published include sacred music of the Renaissance and Baroque, the hexachord mass and theory to 1700, colonial Latin American cathedral music, 20th century American music. He has received the UCLA Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Award and the Ingolf Dahl Award in Musicology, Northern and Southern California Chapters, American Musicological Society. He has served as president of the American Musicological Society--Southwest Chapter and the South-Central Renaissance Conference.