Alexander Blachly
Professor
Department of Music
Degrees
B.A., Haverford College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Profile
Blachly, the 1992 recipient of the Noah Greenberg Award given by the American Musicological Society to stimulate historically aware performances and the study of historical performing practices, has been active in Early Music as both performer and scholar for the past thirty years. Blachly directs the University of Notre Dame Chorale and Chamber Orchestra; directs the Notre Dame Schola Musicorum; has taught Fine Arts University Seminar, Core, Music History I, Music History III, Performance Practice, Renaissance Notation, Vocal Sacred Music I (Gregorian Chant), and Vocal Sacred Music II (Renaissance Polyphony). He earned his post-graduate degrees in musicology from Columbia University. In 1972 he founded the internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble Pomerium, with which he is recording an on-going series of compact discs of a cappella Renaissance music on the Old Hall, Glissando, Archiv, Dorian, Classic Masters, and Nonesuch labels. Blachly assumed the post of Director of Choral Music at the University of Notre Dame in 1993.Contact Information
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Performing Arts Center
631-5105
Blachly.3@nd.edu
