Howard Pollack

Howard Pollack is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Music and Chair of Music History and Literature at the University of Houston.

He is the author of five books, including "Walter Piston" (1981); "Walter Piston and His Students, From Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski" (1992); "John Alden Carpenter: A Chicago Composer" (1995); and "Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man" (1999), which received an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and the Irving Lowens Award, and which has been described as “the definitive study of Aaron Copland’s life and work, no doubt for a long time to come” by the "New York Times".

His most recent book is "George Gershwin: His Life and Work "(2006). He also co-edited "German Literature and Music: An Aesthetic Fusion (1890-1989)".