Larry Wolz

Dr. Larry Wolz is Professor of Music History and Vocal Pedagogy at HSU, where he has been on the faculty since 1978. Dr. Wolz earned the BM and MM degrees in vocal performance from HSU and went on to complete the MM degree in musicology at Texas Christian University. In 1983, he was awarded the Ph.D. degree in musicology from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. Wolz is head of the Music History and Literature department in the School of Music and teaches most of the music history courses as well as Vocal Pedagogy. Dr. Wolz has long been a church musician as well and has been organist at First Central Presbyterian Church in Abilene for over twenty years. His organ arrangements have been published by Broadman, Genevox, and Harold Flammer. Articles on a wide variety of subjects have been published in the NATS Bulletin, Journal of Research in Singing, The Opera Journal, The Church Musician, The American Organist, and College Music Symposium. His current research interests lie primarily in the history of music in Texas. Several of his articles appear in The New Handbook of Texas, and he is currently at work on a biography of Frank Valentine van der Stucken (1858-1929), an important Texas-born composer of international stature in the late nineteenth century.