Ph.D., Kent State University, M.M., Yale University; B.M., Kent State University
Associate Professor (Music History)
David Zuschin, Ph.D., has taught courses in music history and music theory at Radford
University since 2001 at both undergraduate and graduate levels. A native of Kent,
Ohio, Zuschin graduated summa cum laude from Kent State University with a bachelor
of music in music education. He studied at Yale University with the late Bach scholar
Paul Brainard, writing his master’s thesis on the musical structure and theology of
the St. Matthew Passion. From 1993-96, he directed the choral program and taught voice
at Brevard College in Brevard, N.C. before returning to Kent State to complete the
Ph.D. in Musicology /Ethnomusicology. At Kent, he worked with musicologist Theodore
Albrecht and art historian Gustav Medicus on his dissertation Parallels in Style between
Music and Painting of the High Renaissance in Italy. He has studied abroad in Florence,
Italy, and Southern France.
At Radford, Zuschin has focused on the pedagogy of music history and the use of technology
in the teaching and learning of music. He headed up the creation of Opus X, the department’s
library of digital recordings, and has given presentations as well as published research
on the interactive use of technology in music history. He currently serves as the
president of the Thetu Mu chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda.