Faculty Member, Music and Dance
Music Program Coordinator
About
American musicologist Kenneth Owen Smith received his PhD in 2005 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, supported by a Chateaubriand Fellowship from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Upon completing his degree, he relocated to Cyprus to design and coordinate the undergraduate music degree program at Cyprus College. Since 2007, he has been a member of the Department of Music at the University of Nicosia, where he serves as Music Program Coordinator. Dr. Smith teaches courses across a wide range of material encompassing the history of all periods of Western music, analysis of musical form, and world music. His research, which focuses specifically on the music of the French Baroque, has led to publications in the fields of social and political history of music, the history of music theory, and critical editing. He has been invited to speak at conferences and university colloquia in France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Croatia, Greece, and Cyprus. A member of several international academic organizations, he is also an associated researcher with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, as well as President and co-founder of the Cyprus Music Institute, a non-profit organization whose mission includes the promotion and facilitation of music-related research in Cyprus and its immediate region.
