Roger Mathew Grant

Roger Mathew Grant is a music theorist specializing in the eighteenth century. He also works as a dramaturge, for example with Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce on a film version of Arnold Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire." Grant teaches at Wesleyan University.
Work.
According to a recent interview, Grant believes that "during the eighteenth century, debates within musical aesthetics re-scripted the role that performing musicians play in the creation and communication of affect."
Projects.
In 2015 and 2016, Grant collaborated on a "radical reinterpretation" of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" in an installation at NYU's 80 Washington Square East Gallery with Jonathan Berger, Susanne Sachsse, Vaginal Davis, and Jamie Stewart.
Grant served as musical producer for "Pierrot Lunaire" (2014), a film by Bruce LaBruce and winner of the Teddy Jury Award, Berlinale International Film Festival.