Roger Kamien was born in Paris in 1934 and was brought to the United States at the age of six months. He received his B.A. in music from Colombia College in New York, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in musicology from Princeton University. During 1957-1959, he returned to Paris as a Fulbright scholar, for research on eighteenth-century music.
Professor Kamien taught music history, theory, and literature for two years at Hunter College and then for twenty years at Queens College of the City University of New York, where he was coordinator of the music appreciation courses. During this time he was also active as a pianist, appearing both in the United States and in Europe. In 1983, he was appointed to the Zubin Mehta Chair of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
In addition to Music: An Appreciation, Dr. Kamien was the editor of The Norton Scores and on of the co-authors of A New Approach to Keyboard Harmony. He has also written articles and reviews for journals including Music Forum, Beethoven Forum, Musical Quarterly, Journal of Music Theory, and Journal of the American Musicological Society.
In recent years, he has formed a two-piano team with his wife, Anita Kamien -- who has also contributed in many ways to Music: An Appreciation. The Kamiens have three children.
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