MUSIC
MUSICOLOGY
Mark Inchoco is a conductor and PhD candidate in historical musicology at the University of California, Riverside. He received his B.A. from Temple University where he studied creative writing with Samuel R. Delany, and he earned his M.A. in historical musicology at the University of California, Riverside, writing a thesis on Antoine Duhamel and his collaboration with Jean-Luc Godard.
He is currently writing a monograph on a history of film music in France under the direction of composer and musicologist Dr. Byron Adams. He has presented his work at the American Society for Aesthetics, the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, and at the University of Pennsylvania.
As an orchestral trumpeter, he has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Inchoco conducts new orchestral music each year for the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia; his latest commission was a work by French composer Gaëll Lozac'h. Recently, he wrote a libretto on music by American composer Brian Bunker for an opera entitled “The Polite Fifteen Minutes,” modelled after the films of the Nouvelle Vague.