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; co-directs with Calvin M. Bower the Notre Dame Schola Musicorum; has taught Fine Arts University Seminar, Core, Music History I (Medieval & Renaissance), Music History III (Haydn to Debussy), Performance Practice, and Renaissance Notation; and hosts a three-hour classical-music radio show each Wednesday morning on the University's classical-music radio station, WSND 88.9 FM. Blachly, who earned his post-graduate degrees in musicology from Columbia University, founded the internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble Pomerium in 1972. The ensemble, which he still directs, is recording an on-going series of compact discs of a cappella Renaissance music. These recordings have appeared on the Glissando, Archiv, Dorian, Classic Masters, and Nonesuch labels. Prior to assuming the post of Director of Choral Music at the University of Notre Dame in 1993, Blachly taught early music and directed collegia musica at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, Rutgers University, and the University of Pennsylvania--where for eight years he directed the a cappella ensemble Ancient Voices.

Contact Information

102 Crowley Hall of Music
631-5105
Blachly.3@nd.edu