Sarah Iker

In this episode, I chat with Dr. Sarah Iker. Dr. Iker is a music theorist and lecturer in the Music & Theater Arts section at MIT, where she teaches music theory, music history, aural skills, and seminars on topics such as dance, opera, and musical theater. She holds a Ph.D. in Music History and Theory from the University of Chicago and dual B.A. degrees in Piano Performance and Mathematics from Scripps College. Her research focuses on the historical reception and perception of Igor Stravinsky’s neoclassical music, using digital humanities methods to connect early twentieth-century listeners’ descriptions with contemporary analytical approaches. Beyond Stravinsky, her interests include musical theater, music perception and cognition, twentieth-century neoclassicism, and the digital humanities, and she presents her work at regional, national, and international conferences