Scholarship and Biography

Eric Chafe is a specialist in the music of J. S. Bach, Richard Wagner and Claudio Monteverdi. He has published books on these three composers as well as on seventeenth-century violinist-composer, Heinrich Biber. He has won the AMS Kinkeldey Award and the ASCAP Deems Taylor award for his books. He teaches courses on all aspects of music history.

Honors

Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (United States, Princeton), 1970
Canada Council Dissertation Fellowship
Canada Council for the Arts (Canada, Ottawa), 1970-1973
Marver and Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 1986-1987
Publication Grant
National Endowment for the Humanities (United States, Washington D.C.) - NEH, 1989
subvention grant for my book "Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach"
American Musicological Society (United States, Brunswick) - AMS, 1990
Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities (United States, Washington D.C.) - NEH, 1992-1993
Otto Kinkeldey Award for best musicological work of 1993
American Musicological Society (United States, Brunswick) - AMS, 1993
Deems Taylor Award (Monteverdi's Tonal Language)
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (United States, New York) - ASCAP, 1993
Deems Taylor Award for Analyzing Bach Cantatas
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (United States, New York) - ASCAP, 2001
AMS subvention grant to Oxford University Press for my book, "Bach's Johannine Theology: The St. John Passion and the Cantatas for Spring (in press, to be published this year
American Musicological Society (United States, Brunswick) - AMS, 2014
AMS subvention grant to Oxford University Press for my book Tears into Wine: J. S. Bach's Cantata 21 in its Musical and Theological Contexts
American Musicological Society (United States, Brunswick) - AMS, 2014-2015

Organizational Affiliations

Professor Emeritus of Music, Department of Music, Brandeis University

Education

University of Toronto
Ph.D.
University of Toronto
M.A.
University of Toronto
B.Mus.