Member, Commission on Accreditation
Elected November 2025; term ends November 2028
AMY GRAZIANO is Professor of Music and Director of Music History for the Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music at Chapman University. She served 14 years as chair of the Conservatory and in 2024 was named the Bertea Family Chair in Music.
At Chapman, Professor Graziano teaches introductory and advanced courses in music history, the psychology of music, and film music. With Dr. Julene Johnson, she studies the history of music psychology, with a particular interest in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century studies of music in neuroscience. Professor Graziano has received several Chapman University awards for excellence in teaching and scholarship.
Professor Graziano’s work has been published in, among others, The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing; Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives (Progress in Brain Research, Volume 216); and Journal of the History of the Neurosciences.
Professor Graziano received her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Musicology and Master of Music degree from the University of Texas at Austin and her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and Psychology from Vassar College. In addition, she completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in music cognition at the University of California, Irvine.
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Updated January 2026