Charles Weaver appointed as lecturer in music
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) is delighted announce the appointment of Dr. Charles Weaver as lecturer in music at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale School of Music. As such, Dr. Weaver will coach ISM graduate vocal students in early music, oratorio and chamber ensemble and teach courses in the repertoire and performance practice of vocal music from the early modern period. He will also perform in special projects throughout the year.
Professor Weaver holds the PhD in music theory and analysis from the City University of New York. His research interests include the rhythm of Gregorian chant and the history of the theory of harmony. He is also a lutenist, singer, conductor, and church musician. He is editor of the journal “Sacred Music” and has been published in Études gregoriennes, Theoria, Music and Letters, and Journal of the American Musicological Society. He has been featured with the New York Philharmonic as well as the Philadelphia and Minnesota Orchestras.
Additionally, Dr. Weaver has served as assistant conductor for Juilliard Opera and has participated in opera productions at the University of Maryland, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Princeton University, and Yale. Of his conducting for New York’s Dell’Arte Opera, The Observer remarked, “It was amazing to hear what warm and varied sounds he coaxed from the ensemble.” He is a member of the Quicksilver Baroque Ensemble and has performed with Piffaro, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Folger Consort, Apollo’s First, and Blue Heron. He is on the music faculty at the Juilliard School where he teaches historical performance and is director of music at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Norwalk. He and his wife, soprano Elizabeth Baber Weaver, live in Connecticut with their four children.
“The ISM is delighted to welcome Charles Weaver to the faculty who is succeeding Jeff Grossman in this role,” writes ISM director Martin Jean. “Dr. Weaver is a world-class musician and scholar with deep interests in both the scholarly and practice-based aspects of sacred music.”
Dr. Weaver joins professors Jimmy Taylor (area coordinator) and Tomoko Nakayama in this teaching area. We look forward to welcoming Dr. Weaver to Yale University where he will begin in fall, 2026.
