Andrew Shryock

Andrew Shryock joined the Conservatory in 2013. He is an associate professor of core studies specializing in music history.

As an instructor, Shryock teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music history, with an emphasis on topics in 18th-century music, as well as graduate courses in academic and professional writing. He has also served as an instructor at Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, Tufts University, and University of Massachusetts Boston.

As a writing advisor, Shryock runs the website Write in Tune, where he works with musicians to achieve their goals with clear and engaging professional writing. He works with Conservatory students on subjects in academic and professional writing through his department’s writing center. He also wrote and maintains the department’s internal research and writing manual, Writing Guide for Musicians. Through his work as an officer with the faculty union, Andrew assists faculty colleagues with applications for promotion and strategies for career advancement, and he wrote and maintains the union’s guide to wage renegotiation. He also serves as a reader for the Rising Voices Awards at WriteBoston, a non-profit that fosters learning and literacy through writing.

As a public speaker and writer, Shryock draws on his knowledge from the lecture hall to enrich audience experiences in the concert hall. He regularly gives pre-concert talks and writes program notes. He has worked with Rockport Music, New England Classical Singers, Back Bay Chorale, Emmanuel Music, Georgia Tech Chamber Choir, and Music at Marsh Chapel.

As a music historian, Shryock’s academic research—on intersections of music, literature, and aesthetics—has appeared in the Newsletter for the American Handel Society, This Is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics, and Popular Culture, and Notes. He has given papers at national meetings of the American Musicological Society, Handel Institute (United Kingdom), Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, and Society for Textual Scholarship.

Before joining the Conservatory, Shryock served as general manager for the early music ensemble the Boston Camerata. He holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Boston University and an M.M. in musicology and B.M. in vocal performance from the Peabody Conservatory.