Director-Elect

Cleveland Johnson, Director-Elect

The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship directorship rotates among former fellows who serve for a term of two or three years. Cleveland Johnson, Director-Elect, comes to us from the world of higher education, where he is University Professor of Music History and past Dean of the School of Music at DePauw University. He holds a B.Mus. degree from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and a D.Phil. from Oxford University. As a teacher he has devoted himself to the advancement of music in General Studies, in addition to his specialties in the keyboard music of the German Baroque and the music of South Asia.

As a Watson Fellow in 1977-78, he investigated the historic organs of Europe and the then nascent movements for their preservation, restoration, and use in historically-informed performance. The Watson Fellowship allowed him to be at the cutting edge of these developments and to build career-long relationships with others in the field. As a teacher, he has been able to communicate this Watson sense of global discovery to many students, both in the classroom and by leading student research and service projects to several international locations.

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Johnson’s appointment.

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