Christopher A. Reynolds

Professor of Music

University of California, Davis

(Ph.D., Princeton University), Professor: Renaissance, l9th-Century, and American History.

Reynolds graduated from UC Riverside and then earned a Ph.D. at Princeton University. He has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Heidelberg, Yale University, at the Villa I Tatti (the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) in Florence, Italy, and at UC Berkeley. He received a Distinguished Teaching Award in 2000-2001.

Reynolds has written on music of the Renaissance and of 19th-century Germany. His first book Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513 (UC Press, 1995) and other studies were supported by a UC President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities (1988-89), and by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, first in 1984- 85 for research in London, and again in 1988-89 at the Villa I Tatti in Florence. His new book Motives for Allusion: Context and Content in Nineteenth-Century Music will appear with Harvard University Press in 2003. It was written with the support of the Humboldt Foundation. Other research interests include American music and rock.

Reynolds is a Founding Editor of the yearbook and journal Beethoven Forum; he has also edited I Tatti Studies a series of books devoted to studies of art, music, and literature in Renaissance Italy.

As an administrator, Reynolds has been Chair of the Music Department and Chair of the Faculty of Letters and Science at UC Davis. From 2002-04 he is Director of the University of California Study Center at the University of Goettingen, Germany. He has also been the Principal Investigator for the Sierra North Arts Project, an educational program with an annual budget in excess of $100,000 that aims to improve arts instruction at all grade levels by having teachers teach teachers at annual summer workshops held at Davis.