JEFFERY T. KITE-POWELL, Professor and Coordinator of Music History and Musicology, received the B.M. degree from the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati and the B.S. in Music Education from the University of Cincinnati. He earned an M.A. in Musicology from the University of New Mexico and the Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Hamburg, Germany.

In addition to teaching musicology and music history, Professor Kite-Powell directs the FSU Early Music Ensemble, a group of over fifty graduate and undergraduate students divided into ensembles of brass, woodwind, and string instrumentalists, and the vocal group Cantores Musicæ Antiquæ, which has performed at numerous national and regional conventions and twice on NPR's Millennium of Music. His publications include the definitive study of The Visby (Petri) Organ Tablature of 1611 (2 vols.), the reconstruction of Hugo Leichsenring's important dissertation on church music in Hamburg during the Reformation (Berlin 1922), and an article in the New Grove. He is the series editor of Studies in Historical Performance Practice and is the editor of and a contributor to A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music. His translation and edition of Michael Praetorius's Syntagma Musicum III was published by Oxford University Press in 2003.

Dr. Kite-Powell has been a clinician at workshops around the Southeast and has taught at the Amherst Early Music Institute. He has been an invited lecturer at international conferences in Europe (Göteborg, Sweden, Hamburg, Germany, and Edinburgh, Scotland, where he was the keynote speaker). He is a past president of Early Music America and former treasurer of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music. Early Music America presented him with the Thomas Binkley Award for outstanding achievement by a Collegium Director at the June 2003 Boston Early Music Festival.