music history
Professor in the Practice of Musicology and Director of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Recognized as an authority on the music of Anton Bruckner, Professor Hawkshaw’s publications include seven volumes of the composer’s collected works (Vienna), which are performed by major orchestras and choruses throughout the world. His articles have appeared in The Musical Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Music, and the Oesterreichische Musikzeitschrift, and he wrote the Bruckner biography for Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians. In 1996 he was invited by the Austrian National Library, Vienna, to give the commemorative address celebrating the centenary of the composer’s death.
Since coming to Yale in 1984, Professor Hawkshaw has taken an active interest in community affairs and public education in New Haven. He was co-founder of a program involving Yale music faculty and students in the curriculum at the local Co-operative High School for the Arts. In 1998 the program was recognized by Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley as a model of how music plays an integral role in improving overall education standards. Most recently he worked with the New Haven Board of Education and the Yale College Class of ’57 to establish a music and literacy program at an inner-city public elementary school. This led to the creation of an endowment of $6 million by the Class of ’57 to support public school music education. Paul Hawkshaw has been awarded the Yale School of Music’s highest honor, the Sanford Medal, for his scholarship and community service.
Born in Toronto, Canada, Professor Hawkshaw received his Ph.D. in musicology from Columbia University in 1984. He has recently completed a new edition of Anton Bruckner’s Mass in F minor that received its premiere in Vienna’s Grosse Musikvereinsaal in June 2008, and his critical edition of the composer’s Eighth Symphony is in progress. In 2007 he was appointed co-editor of Wiener Bruckner Studien, published under the auspices of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is currently working on a biography of the composer for Yale University Press.