Alan Karass

Office: Brooks Music Library
Phone: 508.793.2295
E-mail: akarass@holycross.edu

Alan Karass is a graduate of Clark University (B.A., Music), Simmons College (M.S., Library and Information Science), and the University of Connecticut (M.A., Historical Musicology). His thesis, "The 'Ach wie nichtig' cantatas of Telemann", explores the relationship between harmonic motion, early eighteenth-century Lutheran theology and North German funeral rites in these works.

Mr. Karass coaches recorder and early music ensembles throughout the U.S., and is currently President of the American Recorder Society. He served as clarinet instructor for the Applied Music Division of the Humanities Department at WPI from 1994 to 1999.

He is co-editor of the journal Music Reference Services Quarterly, and has written articles for Serials Librarian, American Recorder, Music Library Association Newsletter, and Boston Early Music News. He is currently working on a survey of the literature on sound healing. This project will culminate in an annotated bibliography on the subject which will be presented at the Bibliography Roundtable at the Music Library Association 2005 Annual Meeting in Vancouver.