Thomas Christensen is the Avalon Foundation Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago and a specialist in the history of music theory. He is the author or editor of over sixty publications, including Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 1993), The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory (2002), and most recently, Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Among his more recent awards and honors are Fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin (2002), the Wissenschaftskolleg (Berlin, 2011), an ACLS Senior Research Fellowship (2016), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2019).

Zhuqing (Lester) S. Hu is an assistant professor in the Department of Music at the University of California Berkeley.  His research focuses on the global history of music during the so-called early modern period—both on the time period itself, typically defined as late 1400s to early 1800s, and on its much-debated “early modern” label. He has held the Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowship in China Studies, the Townsend Fellowship, the CLIR/Mellon Fellowship, and the Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship. His articles have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society and Early Music. 

Carmel Raz is an assistant professor of music at Cornell University and leader of the research group “Histories of Music, Mind, and Body” at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main. Before coming to Frankfurt she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Columbia University Society of Fellows. She has published widely on the intertwined histories of music and the neural sciences and on the histories of musical attention and cognition. Her monograph Hearing with the Mind: Proto-Cognitive Music Theory in the Scottish Enlightenment is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.