Curriculum Vitae

Naomi Cumming trained as a violinist and then completed her Ph.D. in music theory in the Faculty of Music at the University of Melbourne (1987). She worked in Adelaide as a Research Assistant in Musicology, while also completing a Dip.Ed., lecturing part-time in music history and theory at the University of Adelaide, and teaching elementary violin (1988-89). She received a Rothmans Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1990-92) which she held at the University of Adelaide, then a Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Columbia University in New York (1992-93). In January 1994 she took up a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship in the Faculty of Music at the University of Melbourne, and transferred to the Department of Philosophy in November 1996. In January 1999 she was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Queensland but died suddenly from natural causes.

PERSONAL DATA
Date, city and country of birth. 23rd July 1960, London, England
Citizenship at birth: English. Citizenship: Australian.
Died 6th January 1999, Brisbane, Australia.

EDUCATION
1978-79 Victorian College of the Arts, B.Mus. (Performance - Violin major) Years 1 and 2

1980-81 University of Tasmania, B.Mus. (Performance) Years 3 and 4.

1982 University of Melbourne, M.Mus. Preliminary year (Course-work and minor thesis, equivalent to Honours Year. First Class Hons. achieved).

1983-7 University of Melbourne, Ph.D. in Music Theory.

1987-8 University of Adelaide, Dip.Ed. (Letter of Commendation received)

1989-91 Univ. of Adelaide. Post-doctoral work with Prof. Andrew McCredie: papers on various musicological topics in post-graduate seminars. Continuing German tuition; audited courses: the Philosophy of Mind; the History of Western Philosophy.

1992-93 Columbia University. Audited courses: Set Theory, Philosophy of Music Cognition, Philosophy of Mind. Enrolled courses (City University of New York, Graduate Center): Schenkerian Theory, Units I and II.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
1982 B.Mus., Univ. of Tasmania Hobart, Tasmania
1987 Ph.D., Univ. of Melbourne
1989 Dip.Ed., Univ. of Adelaide Adelaide, South Australia

SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, PRIZES
1983-1986 Commonwealth Post-Graduate Research Award
1987 Musicological Society of Australia, Melbourne chapter, prize for paper given at post-graduate students' conference.
1990-1991 Rothmans Foundation Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
1992-1993 Fulbright Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Columbia University
1994-(1998) Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellowship (Australian Research Council), University of Melbourne.
1998 International Society for Music Theory Outstanding Publication Award for the best article for the year (‘The Subjectivities of “Erbarme Dich”’, Music Analysis, 16/1 (March, 1997).