Robert Riggs
Chair and Professor of Music
Phone Number: (662)915-7149
Email: muriggs@olemiss.edu

Key Words: music history

Research Description: Robert Riggs teaches music history, violin, and viola. He studied violin at the University of New Mexico (with David Cole, Kurt Frederick, and Leonard Felberg), at the Meadowmount School in New York (with Dorothy DeLay), and in Boston (with Emanuel Borok). Riggs's professional performing experience includes a five-year engagement with the orchestra of the Lower Saxon State Opera House in Hannover, Germany, and ten years of free-lance work in Boston with the Handel and Haydn Society, SinfoNova, the Boston Lyric Opera, and the Harvard Chamber Orchestra. He is currently a member of the Oxford Piano Trio, which has performed over sixty major works from the standard repertoire on concerts throughout the state, region, and at conferences in Toronto and Berlin.

Riggs has published articles on Mozart, aesthetics, and historical performance. His book, Leon Kirchner: Composer, Performer, and Teacher, was published in 2010 by the University of Rochester Press in its Eastman Studies in Music series. He is currently writing a book, also for the University of Rochester Press, on violin repertoire and performance.

Honors Theses:

Davis, Portia Nicole (2013) "The Art of Peking Opera"