Dr. John F. Strauss Professor of Music Luther College. October Covering page to attached 6-page CV TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

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1 Dr. John F. Strauss Professor of Music Luther College October 2012 Covering page to attached 6-page CV TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS I teach piano and chamber literature, primarily of the common practice period, with special attention to the music of the mature Viennese Classical composers and the Romantic generation which came of age in the 1830 s. With my research partner Dr. Virginia Strauss, Professor of Music, I continue to research and publish modern performance editions of Viennese classical chamber music from the turn of the 18 th and 19 th centuries. In and 2013 I led a J-term course with Virginia Strauss, Vienna at the Crossroads of History and Culture, drawing on our four decades of reading, language study and direct experience with the city and people of Vienna. The course is both deeply satisfying to us and appears to be of genuine interest to our students. For many years we have also provided the academic portion of the Luther College Residency in Vienna. COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS WITH STUDENTS In the realm of the performing arts all teaching is of its very nature collaborative. Every student who presents a public performance, whether in seminar, recital, master-class or audition, has worked intensively with a teacher, wrestling with texts, exploring questions of style and interpretation and accommodating human limitations.

2 2 Dr. John F. Strauss October 2012 Professor of Music Luther College Decorah, Iowa office FAX Education/Degrees: Piano study with Morton Estrin Piano study and master classes with Paul Badura-Skoda 1971 Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in music and English literature, Oberlin College 1971 Summer Performance Certificate, The Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria 1973 Master of Music degree in piano with Charles Rosen, State University of New York at Stony Brook 1976 Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano with William C. Race, the University of Texas at Austin German study, Institute for European Studies, Vienna, Austria Master classes with three professors, Hochschule für Musik, Vienna, Austria Honors and Awards: 1974 University of Texas Fellowship 1977 Educational Press Association Award ("Alexander Reinagle," Clavier) Iowa Arts Council Touring grants (16 annual grants for solo and chamber music concerts) 1978 Luther College Aid for Research Grant Sabbatical year in Vienna, Austria 1984 Luther College Aid for Research Grant 1984 Educational Press Association Award ("Chopin Rubato,", Clavier) 1986 Luther College Aid for Research Grant Arts Midwest Touring Roster Sabbatical year (fall concert tour; spring research semester in Vienna) Sabbatical year in Vienna Sabbatical year in Vienna 2011 Tomson Family Faculty Fellowship 2012 Spring semester sabbatical in Vienna College Positions: Teaching assistant in studio piano, State University of New York at Stony Brook Assistant Instructor of studio piano and class piano, University of Texas at Austin Instructor of Music, Luther College Assistant Professor of Music, Luther College Associate Professor of Music, Luther College Professor of Music and Chairman, Department of Music Professor of Music 2

3 3 Concerts and Master classes: Luther College Chamber Trio Guest appearances: Coe College, University of Dubuque, University of Iowa at Iowa City, Waldorf College, Cornell College, Fischer Art Center in Marshalltown, Morningside College, Concordia College in River Forest, Gustavus Adolphus College, Sioux City Art Center, Lake Region Community College in Devils Lake (ND), Rochester Art Center (3), Des Moines Art Center (4) 1979 Soloist in the International Dvorak Festival with broadcast on National Public Radio and the Voice of America Oneota Chamber Players Guest appearances: Carroll Art Center, Briar Cliff College, University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, Gustavus Adolphus College (2), Des Moines Art Center (3), The Pump House in La Crosse (2), Coe College, Simpson College, Northwestern College, Chicago Public Library: Dame Myra Hess Concerts (2 - broadcast live), University of Missouri at Columbia (2), Sioux County Concert series at Dordt College, Westmar College, Audubon Art Center, Liberty-Fremont (IL) Concert Society, Indian Hills Community College (IA), Pratt Community College (KS), Kingman (KS), Anthony-Harper (KS) Medicine Lodge (KS), Greensburg (KS), William Penn College, Pennsylvania State College, Simpson Temple Parish in Altoona (PA), Susquehanna University, First Presbyterian Church of Cedar Rapids, Clarke College, Lake Mills Concert Series, University of Iowa, Central College, Upper Iowa University (2), the Phipps Center in Hudson (WI), Mount St. Clare College, Maharishi International University, Robert Myers Art Series of Albert Lea, Crawford County Arts Concerts in Denison, Cornell College, Concordia River Forest, MacNider Museum in Mason City, Morningside College, Beethoven Piano Trio Cycle given over a two year period at Central College, Keokuk Grand Theater, Des Moines Art Center, Clarinda H.S.; Unitarian Church in Rochester (MN), Iowa City High School, Iowa City Mennonite Church, University of Northern Iowa, Trinity Lutheran Church in Dubuque (IA); Trinity United Methodist in Richland Center (WI) (2); Immanuel Lutheran Church in Forest City; Roseville Lutheran Church (2) in Roseville (MN); Abbott Concert Hall, Kleinpell Fine Arts in River Falls (WI); Church of our Savior in Martinez (GA); Max Noah Recital Hall of Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville (GA) (2); Waldorf College; Grinnell College; Lake Mills High School; Zion Lutheran Church; Clinton High School; Central Lutheran Church, Winona (MN); Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, Afton (MN); Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Sioux Falls (SD), U.W. La Crosse 1982 Concerto with the Belleville (IL) Philharmonic Solo Recitals Guest appearances: Briar Cliff College, Des Moines Art Center (2),Coe College, Maharishi International University, MacNider Museum in Mason City, Simpson College, Dordt College, Le Mars Community College, Western Illinois at Macomb, Belmond, IA, Iowa Wesleyan, Ebenezer Lutheran Church Chicago, Lake Mills, IA, Rochester, MN, Phipps Center (Hudson, WI) (2), Indian Hills Community College, Wartburg College, United Methodist Church (Rochester, MN), First Lutheran Church (Cedar Rapids), Roseville (MN) Lutheran Church, First Unitarian Universalist Church in Rochester (MN), Coppertop Theatre, UW-Richland, Abbott Concert Hall, UW-River Falls 1993 International Dvorak Festival 1994 Concerto with La Crosse Symphony Orchestra 3

4 4 Other Professional Activities: Numerous broadcasts of chamber and solo music on Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois Public Radio; many of them live recitals Iowa Public Television broadcasts (five) Guest critic at numerous high school music festivals in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin Concerto competition judge for the La Crosse Youth Symphony, Rochester Symphony, and Milwaukee Youth Symphony; MTNA competition judge Co-leader with Virginia Strauss of ten January Term Study Abroad courses (UMAIE courses and LCSO in Vienna) Co-leader with John Whelan of four UMAIE January Term Abroad courses Member of AAUP and CMS 1989 "Live from Landmark" broadcast 1992 Performed on the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series commemorating the 155th birthday of Chicago (broadcast live) 1994 "Studio III Presents" (live IPTV broadcast of the Oneota Chamber Players) 1994 Master Class/Auditions of the National Library of the Dominican Republic 1999 NASM Presentation: How Can NASM Better Serve the Liberal Arts College? (also published in NASM Proceedings.) 1999 Compact Disk Eine Kleine Hausmusik: John Strauss Performs Piano Works by Schubert, Schumann, and Liszt 2001 Chamber Music Minnesota cable television program: The Unknown Beethoven (Dorian Festival Productions) 2002 Compact Disk Piano Masterworks: John Strauss (Dorian Festival Productions) 2006 Compact Disk: Piano Works by Schubert and Schumann (Centaur Recordings: CRC 2829) [Reviewed in Jan/Feb 08 American Record Guide] Co-leader with V. Strauss of three L. C. January Term classes in Vienna 2011 Program evaluator for the Music Area of the Fine Arts Department at Roanoke College (VA) Articles and Interviews "Alexander Reinagle, Musician of Federalist America," (Clavier, May-June, 1976). "Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Musician," (The Musical Quarterly October, 1978). "Antonin Dvorak's Sojourn in America," (The Iowa Music Teacher, April, 1979). "The Puzzle of Chopin's Tempo Rubato," (Clavier, May-June, 1983). "Conversations with Martin Haselböck," (Clavier, December 1984). "The Search for the Perfect Schumann Urtext," (Clavier, April, 1985). "Has Technology Diminished Our Musical Imagination?," (Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Spring, 1985). "Rosario Marciano: Bringing History to Life," (Clavier, December 1986). 4

5 5 Kjell Johnsen: An Organist's Odyssey," (Clavier, December 1989). "Walter Rabl, The Brahms Prize, and a Quartet, Opus 1," (Chamber Music, Summer 1990). "Weekley and Arganbright: Eighty-eight Divided by Two," (Clavier, December 1990). "The Dual Career of Michael Gailit," (Clavier, January 1993). How Can NASM Better Serve the Liberal Arts College?, (NASM Proceedings, 2000). Walter Rabl in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Vol. 20, 2001). Musical Treasure and Lost Masterworks, (Agora, Fall 2005). Music Publishing in Vienna, Then and Now, (Agora, Fall 2012) Numerous "ARTicles" for the Decorah Journal. Music Editions (co-edited and co-authored with Virginia Strauss): Johann Baptist Vanhal: Concerto in C Major for Violine, Cembalo und Streichorchester (Diletto Musicale 1107, Doblinger, Vienna, 1992). The Complete Instrumental Chamber Music of Walter Rabl, (A-R Editions, Madison, WI, 1996) Vol. 24 of Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Johann Baptist Vanhal: Sonata in B b Major, Op. 30 #1 for violin and piano (Diletto Musicale 1181, Doblinger, Vienna, 1996). Johann Baptist Vanhal: Sonata in E b Major, Op. 30 #2 for violin and piano (Diletto Musicale 1182, Doblinger, Vienna, 1996). Johann Baptist Vanhal: Sonata in B b Major, Op. 30 #3 for violin and piano (Diletto Musicale 1183, Doblinger, Vienna, 1996). Georg Friedrich Fuchs: Trio Concertant g-moll, Op. 64 #3 for clarinet, violin and cello (Diletto Musicale 1224, Doblinger, Vienna, 1997). Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Concerto for Piano, Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Op. 17 (H.A.3, Verlag Anderle, Vienna 1998). Also published in study score by Musikverlag Mersich and Kiess: (No. 08P/530, Vienna 1998). Johann Baptist Vanhal: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C Major, Weinmann IIA C 9 (H.A.5, Verlag Anderle, Vienna 1998). Also published in study score by Musikverlag Mersich and Kiess: (No. 22P/502, Vienna 1998). Johann Baptist Vanhal: Three Sonatas for Piano (E b Major, G Minor, G Major), (Diletto Musicale 1225, Doblinger, Vienna, 1998). 5

6 6 Johann Baptist Vanhal: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in C Major, Weinmann IIb C 2 (H.A.8, Verlag Anderle, Vienna 1999). Johann Baptist Vanhal: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Major, Opus 45, Weinmann IIa A1 (H.A.9, Verlag Anderle, Vienna 2000). Johann Baptist Vanhal: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D Major, Opus 14, Weinmann IIa/D1 (H.A.21, Verlag Anderle, Vienna 2001). Johann Baptist Vanhal: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C Major, Weinmann IIa/C4 (H.A.22, Verlag Anderle, Vienna 2001). Johann Baptist Vanhal: Quartett in E b Major, Op. 40, No. 1 for violin, viola, cello and piano (Diletto Musicale 1307, Doblinger Verlag, Vienna, 2002). Johann Baptist Vanhal: Quartett in G-Dur, Op. 40, No 2 for violin, viola, cello and piano (Diletto Musicale 1308, Doblinger Verlag, Vienna, 2003). Johann Baptist Vanhal: Quartett in B-Dur, Op. 40, No 3 for violin, viola, cello and piano (Diletto Musicale 1350, Doblinger Verlag, Vienna, 2005). Ignaz Pleyel: Klaviertrio B-Dur, B 440 (Diletto Musicale 1405, Doblinger Verlag, Vienna 2007). Ignaz Pleyel: Klaviertrio C-Dur, B 441 (Diletto Musicale 1406, Doblinger Verlag, Vienna 2007). Ignaz Pleyel: Klaviertrio f-moll, B 442 (Diletto Musicale 1407, Doblinger Verlag, Vienna 2007). Ignaz Pleyel: Klaviertrio A-Dur, B 448 (Diletto Musicale 1441, Doblinger Verlag, Vienna 2011). Ignaz Pleyel: Klaviertrio G-Dur, B 446 (Diletto Musicale 1439, Doblinger Verlag, Vienna 2012). Ignaz Pleyel: Klaviertrio B-Dur, B.447 (Diletto Musicale 1440, Doblinger Verlag, Vienna 2012). Ignaz Pleyel: Symphonie Concertante für Violine, Klavier und Orchester in F-Dur B. 115 (International Pleyel Gesellschaft, Rupperstal 2012). 6