Music

Faculty

Post-Doctoral Fellow (world music, musicianship)

B.A., Grinnell College; M.M, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; PGDip, Royal Northern College of Music; D.M.A, University of Colorado at Boulder

Rachel Chacko is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Vassar College, where she teaches courses in world music and musicianship. Her research interests are focused on cross-cultural interactions in twentieth- and twenty-first-century music and on the relationship between performance and analysis. She has presented papers on the transcultural music of American composer Lou Harrison at meetings of The College Music Society and the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory.

A recipient of the nationally awarded Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, she earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in flute performance and pedagogy from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and is a PhD candidate in music theory. She also received a postgraduate diploma from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England, where she studied with Peter Lloyd, retired principal flutist of the London Symphony Orchestra. She has published in The Flutist Quarterly and Flute Talk.

Chacko has previously taught at the University of Colorado and the Interlochen Center for the Arts Summer Camp as a music theory instructor.