Kenneth Owen Smith
Associate Professor of Music, University of Nicosia
PhD in Historical Musicology, University of Illinois (2005)
MM in Historical Musicology, University of Illinois (2000)
BA in Music History and Literature, Arizona State University (1995)
Kenneth Owen Smith is a musicologist, university professor, and social entrepreneur. As Executive Director of the Musicopolis Institute, he is the project leader of all non-profit and social entrepreneurship activities undertaken by Musicopolis. He also chairs Musicopolis’s Executive Committee, which oversees organizational strategy, financial management, and HR management.
Ken serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Music and Dance at the University of Nicosia, where he has been since 2007. His university teaching covers all areas of European Music History, World Music, Research Methods, Performance Studies, and Arts Management. As a researcher, his publications have mainly concentrated on French baroque music and art music in contemporary Cyprus. He is also a member of the editorial board of the online journal Mousikos Logos. Ken completed his PhD at the University of Illinois in 2005 under the supervision of John Walter Hill, with the support of a Chateaubriand Fellowship from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Currently, he is earning an MBA in Management from the University of Nicosia. A classically trained saxophonist, he enjoys playing all kinds of music with friends and students.
Publications
Forthcoming: “A Cypriot in Paris: Solon Michaelides at the Schola Cantorum,” Mousikos Logos [Online] 4 (2017) <www.m-logos.gr>
Forthcoming: Angel Nicolaou-Konnari and Kenneth Owen Smith. “Une œuvre philosophique de Pietro de Nores mise en musique par Bartolomeo Grassi et dédiée à Louis XIII: Transgressione e pentimento di David (Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Ms. 3354.” In“Poésie et musique à l’âge de l’ars subtilior,’ Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, 2-4 November 2015.
Kenneth Owen Smith, ed., Music in/of the Mediterranean: Selected Papers from the Third Biennial Mediterranean Music Conference, 19-21 September 2013, University of Nicosia, special edition of Mousikos Logos [Online] 2 (2015) <www.m-logos.gr>.
“The Organizational Field of Art Music.” In Music in Cyprus, edited by Jim Samson, 149-173. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015.
“Cyprus, I. Art Music, 2. Post-1960. The Modern State, i. Musical Life” Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press, 2014. <www.oxfordmusiconline.com>.
Sébastien de Brossard: Les Airs. Editions Monumentales III/8. Versailles: Editions du Centre de Musique de Versailles, 2012; 400 pp.
“Η συνέχεια στο Γαλλικό τραγούδι του 17ου αιώνα.” [Generic Continuity in Seventeenth-Century French Song] Mousikos Logos 10 (2012): 43-60.
“Sébastien de Brossard’s Entry for Cadenza in the Manuscript Draft of His Dictionnaire, F-Pn n.a.f. 5269.” Theoria: Historical Aspects of Music Theory 16 (2009): 59-109.
“Sébastien de Brossard, the Galant Air, and French Hegemony in Strasbourg during the Nine Years War,” Seventeenth-Century French Studies 30/1 (2008): 92-105.
