Dr. Jeffrey Noonan, Associate Professor of Music, A.B., University of Notre Dame; B.Mus., Hartt College of Music, University of Hartford; M.Mus. and Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis. Musicologist Jeffrey Noonan teaches upper-level music literature and history courses, including courses in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music as well as classes in American music and world musics. In addition to directing the Classical Guitar area at Southeast, Dr. Noonan performs Renaissance and Baroque music on lute, theorbo, and early guitars with Early Music St. Louis, Shakespear’s Bande, the Kingsbury Ensemble, and Collegium Vocale St. Louis. His regional performances include concerts in the Dallas area with the McKinney Kammergild and in Louisville with Bourbon Baroque. In 2005, he co-founded Musicke’s Cordes, an early music string band focusing on 17th century Italian ensemble music and in 2007 he established St. Louis Baroque, a new baroque orchestra and choir.
Professor Noonan’s research activities range from the 17th to the 20th centuries and from art music to the popular. His book, The Guitar in America: Victorian Era to Jazz Age, was released in 2008 by the University Press of Mississippi as part of its “American Made Music Series.” His bibliography, The Guitar in Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Periodicals, 1882-1933, appeared in January 2009 as part of the Music Library Association’s Index and Bibliography Series published with A-R. Editions. Dr. Noonan has also published articles and reviews in High Performance, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Soundboard, and online at NYlon Review. He has read papers on the subject of the classical guitar in America at conferences across the country, including presentations for the Society of American Music, the American Musical Instrument Society, and Music in Gotham (CUNY). Dr. Noonan regularly creates performing editions of Renaissance and Baroque music for the various ensembles with which he performs and is currently preparing an edition of trio sonatas by Giovanni Bononcini for publication. In 2003 and 2008, Southeast’s College of Liberal Arts presented Professor Noonan its annual award for Outstanding Scholarship and Creative Activity.
With more than 30 years of teaching experience in the studio and the classroom, Dr. Noonan is a well-respected teacher both on and off campus. Many of his former students hold advanced degrees from prestigious universities and are successful professional performers and teachers. His recent guitar students from Southeast have been accepted into graduate programs at schools across the country, including the Peabody Conservatory, Northwestern University School of Music, University of NevadaLas Vegas and the California Institute of the Arts.
Professor Noonan has considerable experience in professional and university theater, having been music director of Holy Roman Repertoire Company for eight years and its artistic director for two. Additionally, he has composed and performed music for a wide variety of dramatic works ranging from Arisotophones’ Lysistrata to David Hare’s Teeth ‘n’ Smiles. He has served as music director for numerous Shakespeare productions as well as plays by Moliere and Machievelli. His recent theatrical activities include directing the Southeast Music Academy’s acclaimed production of Benjamin Britten’s Noye’s Fludde and composing music for productions of Berthold Brecht’s Good Woman of Sechzuan and Sor Juana de la Cruz’s House of Desire. In the spring of 2009, Dr. Noonan will compose and direct music for a new production of Brecht’s Mother Courage.
E-mail: jjnoonan@semo.edu
Office phone: (573) 651-2706
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