# Truman See Theory ![Truman See](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2025-08/Truman%20See.jpeg?h=67fb519a&itok=lWMw5tRW) email I am a music philosopher, theorist, and historian. My research brings together various disciplinary perspectives to understand perplexing aesthetic experiences that bear contemporary significance, and to reshape the ways we think about music for a more equitable, flourishing global world. My current research focuses on the contemporary ethics and politics of engaging with the European concert music canon (perhaps more commonly known as “classical music”) in relation to concerns of postcolonial global justice. I am also thinking about global popular music, particularly aesthetic and political questions concerning the transnational reception of contemporary Mandopop. Following my graduate studies at Oxford, my academic work has been published in *19th Century Music* and the *Journal of Musicology*. My first article, “Hear My Desire: Rachmaninov’s Orphic Voice and Musicology’s Trouble with Eurydice” (*19th Century Music*), was awarded the 2022 Roland Jackson Award of the American Musicological Society. Outside academia, I am committed to advocating for the importance of music and the arts, and have given talks for the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Before coming to Harvard, I worked as a public school music teacher in Singapore. Photo credit: Gabrielle See - ## Person Categories [Graduate Student](/person-categories/graduate-student)