Steven J. Cahn, Program Annotator for The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, is an Assistant Professor at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.  Professor Cahn is a music theorist and pianist whose research interests include Schoenberg studies, the history of music theory, aesthetics, and historiography. His recent publications include contributions to Schoenberg and Words (New York, 2000), Kol Nidre in Schoenberg: Interpretationen Seiner Werke (Vienna), Ostinato Rigore (Paris), and Music Theory Spectrum. Dr. Cahn has recently delivered papers at the Arnold Schoenberg Centre (Vienna), the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), as well as at annual meetings of the American Musicological Society, Music Theory Midwest, and the Music Theory Society of New York State. He has held grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and has conducted research at the National Institutes of Health. Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook; CCM since 1997.