Howard Pollack is John J. and Rebecca Moores Professor of Music at the University of Houston, where he has taught since 1987. Born in Brooklyn in 1952, he holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Cornell University, where he received a doctorate in musicology in 1981. His eight books include award-winning biographies of composers Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Marc Blitzstein, and Samuel Barber, and lyricist-librettist John Latouche. He is currently researching the life and music of the Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch.
