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music educator

Mark Bernard DeVoto, music educator. Member American Musicol. Society, Society Music Theory, Society for American Music, New England Conference Music Theorists, Harvard Museum Association.

Background

DeVoto, Mark Bernard was born on January 11, 1940 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Bernard Augustine and Helen Avis (MacVicar) DeV.

Education

Bachelor, Harvard College, 1961; Master of Fine Arts, Princeton University, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1967.

Career

Teacher Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1964-1968, University New Hampshire, Durham, 1968-1981. Teacher department music Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, 1981-2000. Board member International Alban Berg Society, New York City, since 1975.

President Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund, Boston, 1985-1996, since 2007.

Achievements

  • Mark Bernard DeVoto has been listed as a noteworthy Music educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Musicol. Society, Society Music Theory, Society for American Music, New England Conference Music Theorists, Harvard Museum Association.

Interests

  • Avocations: writing fiction, cooking.

Connections

Married Deanna Mirsky (divorced). Children: Emily Julia, Marya Ellen.

Father:
Bernard Augustine DeV.

Mother:
Helen Avis (MacVicar) DeV.

Spouse:
Deanna Mirsky

child:
Emily Julia DeVoto

child:
Marya Ellen DeVoto