Jerome Kohl

Kohl grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, with three siblings.[2] During high school and college there at the University of Nebraska,[3]^:242 he played clarinet in the local symphony orchestra. He received a master's degree in music in 1971. Drafted into the army, he played in an army band during the Vietnam War.[2] He studied music theory at the University of Washington in Seattle.[2] In the 1970s, Kohl joined the Seattle Recorder Society, attending and teaching at their meetings, and teaching privately.[4] In 1976, Kohl was a co-founder and first board president of the Early Music Guild (EMG, now called Early Music Seattle) in Seattle, attracting international players to perform in the city. The EMG held a monthly concert by local players, and Kohl played a concert with music from the 14th century to modern times in 1980. He continued to teach recorder for the Society for decades.[2][4]

Denny Hall, home of the Classics Department at the University of Washington

Kohl concluded his studies with a PhD in 1981[2] with a dissertation titled "Serial and Non-Serial Techniques in the Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1962–1968".[5] He was managing editor of the journal Perspectives of New Music from 1985 to 1999.[3] Between 2005 and 2018 he was Secretary of the Department of Classics at the University of Washington. In 2018, Kohl became Administrative Assistant at the university's Department of Political Science.[2]

His focus of research was contemporary classical music. He became recognized as a world expert on the works of Karlheinz Stockhausen,[2][3] taking part in international conferences on Stockhausen.[2][6] He collaborated with Stockhausen, traveling to Europe annually, and co-authored books with him.[4]

Kohl died in Seattle from a sudden heart attack at the age of 73.[3] His death was commemorated by a memorial tribute in Perspectives of New Music, which described his 2017 book on Stockhausen's Zeitmaße as "an astounding masterpiece".[3]

• Kohl, Jerome (1981). Serial and Non-Serial Techniques in the Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1962–1968 (PhD thesis). University of Washington. OCLC 15544439.
• — (Spring–Summer 1985). "Stockhausen on Opera". Perspectives of New Music. 23 (2): 24–39. doi:10.2307/832695. JSTOR 832695.
• — (1999). "Four Recent Books on Stockhausen". Perspectives of New Music. 37 (1): 213–245. doi:10.2307/833632.
• — (2012). "A Gedenkschrift for Karlheinz Stockhausen". Perspectives of New Music. 50 (1–2): 306–312. doi:10.7757/persnewmusi.50.1-2.0306.
• — (2017). Karlheinz Stockhausen: Zeitmaße. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7546-5334-9.

• Jerome Kohl researchgate.net
• Karlheinz Stockhausen: Zeitmaße Routledge 2017