MATTHEW R. SHAFTEL, Assistant Professor of Music Theory, received Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees from Yale University, where he won the prestigious Undergraduate Teaching Prize. He holds a B.A. degree in Music and Education, also from Yale University.

Prior to his arrival at Florida State University, Dr. Shaftel taught courses on harmony, counterpoint, form, opera, post-tonal analysis, critical writing, and music history at Yale University and at Southern Connecticut State University. His research and publications reflect an interest in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art song as well as early-American and European popular music. Dr. Shaftel is currently preparing an edition of Anton Webern's early songs (1899-1908), based on archival work that he has done at the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland.