Graydon Beeks

Director of Music Programming and Facilities, Professor of Music
Thatcher 106
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Graydon Beeks received his B.A. from Pomona College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. After conducting research in England and teaching at Vassar College and Kenyon College, he returned to Pomona in 1983. Beeks has taught courses in "The Development of Western Music to Beethoven," "Advanced Topics in Music History," and "Musical Theater in America," in addition to conducting the Pomona College Band and the Fighting Sagehen Band. He also supervises the scheduling and operation of the concert halls and serves as departmental librarian. A specialist in the music of George Frideric Handel, Beeks has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies, and has published extensively on the music of Handel and his contemporaries, especially William Croft, Attilio Ariosti, and Johann Christoph Pepusch. He has also contributed articles to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the New Dictionary of National Biography. Beeks is a member of the Editorial Board of the Hallische Handel Ausgabe, the Board of Directors of The American Handel Society, and the Vorstand of the Georg Friedrich Handel Gesellschaft. He is also a Friend of the Handel Institute in London, England, and an active member of the College Band Directors National Association, the American Musicological Society, and the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music. In addition to his scholarly endeavors, he is also active as a singer, organist and harpsichordist.