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Timothy Gaylard, Professor of Music, Chairman of the Music Department, joined the faculty at Washington and Lee University in 1984. He is both a musicologist and a pianist.

As a musicologist, Professor Gaylard's recent research includes work on the history and development of the Prague Spring Festival. He has also given papers for the American Musicological Society on "Charon Dialogues" and "The Meeting of Mozart and Beethoven in 1787." He has also published liner notes for recordings by Luciano Pavarotti, Kiri Te Kanawa, and other singers on the Gala and Bella Voce labels.

As a pianist, Timothy Gaylard has won several prizes and awards in music festivals and competitions in Ottawa, Toronto, and Quebec, and has performed on radio and television in both the United States and Canada. He has played as soloist with the Ottawa Civic Symphony, and with the orchestras of Carleton, Columbia and Washington and Lee Universities.

Since coming to Lexington, Professor Gaylard has performed in public often, both as soloist and accompanist. In February 2000 he played the world premiere performance of Terry Vosbein's Piano Sonata, especially written for him. He played it again at a College Music Society conference at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro in March. He has been pianist and musical director for Henry Street and FAIR productions, including Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway, Of Thee I Sing, and Gypsy.

At Washington and Lee he teaches courses on Classical Music (Music 231), Romantic Music (Music 232), American Music (Music 220), Seminar on Instrumental Repertoire (Music 395), Introduction to Music (Music 120), solo piano (Music 141-143P, 241-243P, 341-343P, 441-443P). He also acts as advisor to senior music majors in piano performance and in music history (Music 473 and Music 493).

Since 1989 he has been the director of the Washington and Lee Concert Guild, an organization which sponsors a series of classical concerts performed by nationally and internationally renowned artists and ensembles.

A native of Ottawa, Canada, he studied piano with Irene Woodburn Wright and later with Ross Pratt at Carleton University where he received his B.A. in Mathematics (1975) and B.Mus. degree (1976). Professor Gaylard also has two A.R.C.T. degrees from the University of Toronto in piano performance (1972) and pedagogy (1974), and a diploma from the Mozarteum in Salzburg (1974) where he studied with Winfried Wolf. He received his Ph.D. in musicology from Columbia University in New York with a dissertation on "Musical Dialogues in Seventeenth-Century England" (1987, 2 vols., 613 pp.).

Professor Gaylard is a member of the American Musicological Society, the College Music Society, the Mozart Society of America, and the Music Teachers National Association.

He lives in Lexington with his wife, Catharine, voice instructor at Washington and Lee, and their children, Elizabeth, Valerie, and Angela.