Biography
Victor Coelho was named Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education at Boston University following two years as a professor and chair of Musicology at BU’s College of Fine Arts and the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. A graduate of Berkeley (BA) and UCLA (PhD), he has also taught at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, Cornell, the University of Melbourne, and the University of Calgary. As a musicologist, his interests lie in 16th- and 17th-century music, cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary approaches, and popular music, particularly blues, funk, and rock. His books include Music and Science in the Age of Galileo (Kluwer), The Manuscript Sources of 17th-Century Italian Lute Music (Garland), Performance on Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela (Cambridge), and The Cambridge Companion to the Guitar. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Noah Greenberg Prize given by the American Musicological Society for outstanding contributions to the performance of early music, a fellowship from Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and a 2004 Prelude Classical Award for best Baroque album of the year for his recording La Notte d’Amore: Music for the 1608 Medici Wedding, which he directed with Alan Curtis. As the director and lutenist of the group “Il Furioso,” he has made recent recordings of music by Kapsberger, Castaldi, and Caccini, and he is also guitarist and founder of the Rooster Blues Band, which has released two albums on UCI and tours regularly with Chicago blues singer Lou Pride.
For more biographical information, audio and video clips, and a full list of publications with downloads, see http://people.bu.edu/blues.
