Jeanne Bamberger

Jeanne Bamberger (née Shapiro) is Professor emerita of Music and Urban Education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Adjunct Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. She teaches Music Cognition.[1]

Jeanne Bamberger
Alma materUC Berkeley, Columbia University, University of Minnesota
Scientific career
Fieldsmusic education, music cognition, piano performance
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, University of Southern California
Websiteweb.mit.edu/jbamb

Early years and education

Bamberger was a child prodigy pianist in her native Minnesota. She moved to New York City in 1943 to study with Artur Schnabel[2], where she was a contemporary of Leon Fleischer in Schnabel's piano studio. Bamberger attended the University of Minnesota and Columbia University where she studied philosophy with Ernest Nagel and Irwin Edman. She received her BA in philosophy and music from Minnesota in 1948.

Bamberger went on to the University of California, Berkeley where she studied with Roger Sessions, receiving an MA in Music Theory in 1951. Upon graduation, she received a Fulbright scholarship to study in Paris, France. From 1951 to 1952, she attended classes with Olivier Messiaen and Darius Milhaud[3]; a notable fellow student in Milhaud's class was Pierre Boulez. During this time, she also performed extensively as piano soloist and in chamber music ensembles, focusing particularly on music by young American composers.

Career

After a brief stint at the University of Southern California, Bamberger's first longterm academic appointment was at the University of Chicago where, between 1955 and 1969, she developed and taught a freshman seminar in Art, Music, and Literature together with Leonard Meyer and Howard Brofsky.

Bamberger was appointed at MIT from 1970 to 2001, where she taught in the Music and Theater Arts Section, was involved in the development of Music Logo in Seymour Papert's Logo Lab in the Department of Computer Science from 1972 to 1975. From 1975 to 1995, she was in the Division for Study and Research in Education. She subsequently created and directed the Teacher Development Program in the MIT Department of Urban Studies, targeted at MIT undergraduates wishing to teach math and science in inner city high schools.

Retiring from MIT in 2001, she taught briefly at the Harvard Graduate School of Education before moving cross country to Berkeley, California, in 2005, where she is currently affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley.

Books

She has authored a number of notable books on musical development and learning:

  • Bamberger, Jeanne (1995). The mind behind the musical ear. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674576063.
  • Bamberger, Jeanne (2000). Developing musical intuitions: A project based introduction to making and understanding music. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-510571-0.
  • Bamberger, Jeanne (2013). Discovering the musical mind: A view of creativity as learning. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199589838.

Awards and honours
  • SEMPRE (Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research) Lifetime Achievement Award (2019)
  • Guggenheim Fellowship (1998) to write a book on musical intelligence and its development
  • Fulbright Scholarship (1951-1952) to study Aesthetics with Olivier Messiaen and to play concerts of young American composers

References
  1. "Music Perception and Cognition". Berkeley Academic Guide 2019-2020. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
  2. "Sempre Lifetime Achievement Award recipients". SEMPRE. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
  3. "Music at MIT Oral History Project" (PDF). MIT. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
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