Robert Riggs
Robert Riggs, department chair since 2013, is professor of music and
teaches music history, violin and viola.
A member of the faculty since 1987, he returned in 1996
after two years as a visiting associate professor
of music at the University of
Utah. He studied violin with David Cole, Kurt
Frederick, Leonard Felberg, Dorothy DeLay, and Emanuel Borok.
For twenty-five years, Riggs has been a recitalist and a player
with orchestras and chamber ensembles; his engagements have included
a five-year position in Germany with the orchestra of the Lower Saxon
State Opera in Hannover, and ten years of free-lance work with Boston
area orchestras. He is currently a member of the Oxford Piano
Trio, which performed in Berlin in the summer of 1995.
Dr. Riggs received the Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard University; he has written
numerous articles on the music of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven,
and has delivered papers at meetings of the College Music Society,
the American
Musicological Society, and the International Mozart
Congress in Salzburg in 1991. His book, Leon Kirchner: Composer,
Performer, and Teacher was published by University of Rochester Press
in 2010.
E-mail:
(muriggs@olemiss.edu)
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