Agmon Eytan

Prof. Eytan Agmon has a double BMus in piano and theory from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (1975), and a PhD in music theory from the City University of New York (1986). His Dissertation, “Diatonicism, Chromaticism and Enharmonicism: A Study in Cognition and Perception,” was supervised by Prof. Carl Schachter. Prof. Agmon taught at the Mannes College of Music in New York, 1981–1983, and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, 1983–1989. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, 1997–1998, and SUNY Buffalo, 2003–2004. Prof. Agmon, a faculty member of the Department of Music, Bar-Ilan University, since 1983, is a founding member (1991) of ESCOM—European Society for the Cognitive Science of Music.