University of Lethbridge

Biography

Edward Jurkowski is a native of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Following his Bachelor's degree, Dr. Jurkowski completed an MA in Music Theory and a Ph.D. in Music Theory from the University of Rochester. As a theorist, Dr. Jurkowski's principal teachers include David Beach (Schenkerian Theory), Robert Gauldin (Counterpoint and Pedagogy), David Headlam (Twentieth-Century Analysis and Dissertation Advisor), Robert Morris (Twentieth-Century Analysis) and Robert Wason (History of Theory). His composition teachers include Samuel Adler, Warren Benson, Michael Matthews, Christopher Rouse and Joseph Schwantner.

Prior to his appointment to The University of Lethbridge, Dr. Jurkowski held positions as Instructor of Music at the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Rochester, Instructor of Music at the Eastman School of Music and a Teaching Assistant at the Eastman School of Music.

Selected Publications

Books
The Collected Works of Eduard Tubin: Symphonies 9, 10 and 11 (Series I, Volume 5). I edited the music and authored all the text from this volume of the collected edition. Stockholm: Gehrman, 2008.

The Orchestral Music of Kalevi Aho. Co-authored with Kalevi Aho. Helsinki: Fennica Gehrman, 2005.

The Music of Joonas Kokkonen. London: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2004.


Published Articles
"Rotational Form and the Symphonic Designs of Eduard Tubin." Yearbook of the International Eduard Tubin Society, Volume 7 (2007): 59-71.

"Aspects of Time in the Later Music of Morton Feldman." Musicological Explorations 7 (Spring 2006): 91-114.

"Alexander Scriabin's and Igor Stravinsky's Influence upon Early Twentieth-Century Finnish Music: The Octatonic Collection in the Music of Uuno Klami, Aarre Merikanto and Väinö Raitio." Intersections 25/1-2 (2005): 67-85.

Current Research and Creative Activity

Title	Location	Grant Information	Principal Investigator	Co Researchers
Contemporary Finnish Music	primarily Helsinki, Finland	University of Lethbridge, $4,500, 2007.	E. Jurkowski
Music of Eduard Tubin
Music of Morton Feldman

Previous Research

Title	Grant Agency	Completion Date
The Influence of Russian Modernism upon Finnish Music circa 1915-1940	University of Lethbridge Research Fund	2005
The Influence of French and Russian Art Music upon Finnish Musical Modernism, circa 1910-1940	U. of Lethbridge (Internal SSHRC award)	2007