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Timothy Gaylard, Professor of Music, joined the faculty at Washington and Lee University in 1984. He was chairman of the Department from 2000 until 2008. He is both a musicologist and a pianist.

As a musicologist, Professor Gaylard's recent research includes work on English piano music, and 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 2009 he gave several performances, including a program with oboist Lillian Townsend Copeland, a recital with Scott Williamson and Amy Cofield Williamson for Opera Roanoke, an Opera Gala performance with The Rockbridge Choral Society and Amy Cochrane, Christine Schadeberg, and Keith Spencer, and a solo recital at Wilson Hall of works by Gottschalk, Will Marion Cook, Debussy, Terry Vosbein, Milhaud, Griffes and Gershwin. He has been pianist and musical director for Henry Street and FAIR productions.

At Washington and Lee he teaches courses on Classical Music (Music 231), Romantic Music (Music 232), American Music (Music 220), Seminar for Music Majors (Music 395), Introduction to Music (Music 120), solo piano (Music 141-143P, 241-243P, 341-343P, 441-443P). He will also be teaching a new course for the Spring Term, beginning in 2010,  on “Music in the films of Stanley Kubrick.”   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 they have three children—Elizabeth, Valerie, and Angela.