CCM welcomes Provostal Post-Doctoral Fellow

UC College-Conservatory of Music Dean Pete Jutras welcomes Alexandra Kori Hill as a Provostal Post-Doctoral Fellow at CCM, where she will continue her research and teach while preparing for a future faculty position. Hill will be mentored by CCM Assistant Professor of Music Studies Kristy Swift and CCM Professor of Ethnomusicology Stefan Fiol during the one-year appointment, which begins on August 15, 2025.

The Provostal Post-Doctoral Program aims to attract talented post-doctoral fellows to the University of Cincinnati who will contribute varying perspectives, expertise and skill sets that bolster engagement and innovation and enhance the student experience. This program is designed to provide participants with the opportunity to refine and enhance their personal and professional skills in preparation for a faculty career in academia, preferably at UC. Fellows will receive mentorship from the sponsoring faculty member and departments and university administrators.

Alexandra Kori Hill is a musicologist based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her scholarship focuses on the repertoire of Florence Price, 19th and 20th century Black composers, American music culture and questions of style and genre. In Spring 2026, Hill will teach a seminar class at CCM. Hill wants to focus the course on African American instrumental repertoire or African American composer networks. 

"I’m very interested in the connections between classical, popular and folk idioms in Western art music, jazz and classical music in the United States and how music and sound is racialized and gendered," Hill said. "Many of the people and repertoire I study are under-researched. So, on one hand I’m sharing basic biographical detail and on the other, I’m highlighting what their music and professional lives can illuminate about aesthetic movements, political issues and cultural developments."

Hill is co-editor of the forthcoming The Cambridge Companion to Florence B. Price and her monograph, Florence Price: Violin Concertos, is under contract with Cambridge University Press. She has served as an adjunct instructor at CCM and is assistant editor and regular contributor for I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, powered by American Composers Forum.

"Hill brings a wealth of experience as musicologist, editor, instructor and engaged community member," said Jonathan Kregor, Division Head of Composition, Musicology and Theory at CCM. "She has taught as an adjunct faculty member at CCM with great success since 2023, and she boasts credentials and interests that complement our own."

Hill has presented her research at the American Musicological Society and Society for American Music and guest lectured for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and Louisville Academy of Music. Fiercely dedicated to public scholarship, she has written program notes for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Castle of Our Skins, Chamber Music at Lincoln Center, CSO and the Seattle Symphony. She also writes for Cincinnati Public Radio’s Classics for Kids Blog and serves as a CSO board member and chair of the CSO’s Multi-Cultural Awareness Council. Hill holds a PhD in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"I’m a Cincinnati native, so to be able to conduct research in my hometown is a blessing and privilege," Hill said. "There is so much rich and diverse music history in the city and connected to CCM, so I’m excited to see what connections between my hometown, this institution and my own work develop during my time here."

"We welcome Alexandra Kori Hill to CCM for the post-doctoral fellowship and look forward to the creative scholarship and research she will share with our community," CCM Dean Pete Jutras said. "Thank you to Stefan Fiol and Kristy Swift for serving on the search committee, and to the UC Provost Office for supporting this position."

Featured image at top: Alexandra Kori Hill. Photo/provided.