Fred Miller Robinson, Ph.D., was hired as chair of the English Department in 1991 and served in that capacity until 2005.  From 2005-06 he was interim director of Theatre Arts, and beginning in 2009 he will serve as chair of the Department of Music.  He has taught a variety of undergraduate courses in modern literature, including Modern Poetry, Modern Drama, Narrative Theory and Writing Autobiography, and a text course in Modern Drama to the USD/Old Globe MFA students.  His research focus has shifted from comic theory to cultural studies: a social history of The Man in the Bowler Hat and, currently, the interculture of Ireland and the U.S.

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Christopher Adler, Ph.D., is a composer, performer and improviser. His music draws upon over a decade of research into the traditional musics of Thailand and Laos and a background in mathematics. He is a foremost performer of new and traditional music for the khaen, a free-reed mouth organ from Laos and Northeast Thailand. As pianist and composer-in-residence with NOISE and co-founder of the soundON Festival of Modern Music he is active in commissioning and performing new works, and he performs and records as an improviser on piano in many ensembles.

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Marianne Pfau, Ph.D., heads the music history and literature program at USD, offers international Early Music Festivals, and directs the concert series Angelus: Sacred Early Music in Founders Chapel.   Since 2006, she also teaches graduate seminars at the Musicological Institute of the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Pfau also has an active performance career as baroque oboist.  She performs and records with American Bach Soloists, Jubilate Baroque Orchestra and California Bach Society in San Francisco; Corona del Mar Baroque Festival in Los Angeles; Trinity Consort in Oregon, and Ensemble Rebel in New York. In Europe she appears with Musica Alta Ripa, L’Arco Baroque Orchestra Hannover, Corona Musica Kassel, Cythara Ensemble Hamburg, and Accademia dell’Arcadia Poznan.

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Angela Yeung, Ph.D., is the director of the University of San Diego Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Music Ensembles, and the Annual Chamber Music Festival that is held in February (Winter Chamber Heat) and July (Summer Festival).  She has conducted orchestras and choirs nationally and internationally, and is the principal guest conductor for The Chorale Singers in Jakarta, Indonesia.  Since 2006 Yeung has been president of the Western Division of the National College Orchestra Directors Association.

Yeung performs professionally on modern and baroque cellos, and is the founding artistic director of the concert series Early Music at Saint Peter’s Church in New York City.

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