Raphael

Christopher Raphael (Applied Mathematician, Oboist; Chair of Computer Science, Director of Music Informatics Program, Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science/Music Theory/Statistics, University of Indiana Bloomington) 

Christopher Raphael is Professor of Informatics in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington. He heads the Music Informatics program, as well as holding adjunct appointments in the Jacobs School of Music, Cognitive Science, and Statistics. After receiving his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 1991, he worked on a wide range of problems in both industry and academia including Arabic character recognition, magnetic resonance spectroscopy and mine detection before coming to focus on music. His musical research includes accompaniment systems, computer generated musical analysis, musical signal processing, and modeling of musical interpretation.

As a former professional oboist, he won the San Francisco Young Artist competition and soloed with the San Francisco Symphony at the age of 17, played principal oboe in the Santa Cruz Symphony, and was a fellow at Tanglewood.

Website — www.music.informatics.indiana.edu/~craphael

Youtube channel —  www.youtube.com/user/chrisraphael1

Chris Raphael demonstrates Music Plus One