Bryan Espinosa

Bryan Espinosa is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Sam Houston State University. His research interest includes form and style of Spanish keyboard music written in the eighteenth century, form analysis, schema theory, partimento practice, and music theory pedagogy. Dr. Espinosa has presented his research at a variety of national and regional conferences, including the Society of Music Theory (2019, 2023), Galant Schemata in Theory and Practice (2022), the Texas Society for Music Theory (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022), and Music Theory Midwest (2016).

Dr. Espinosa received a PhD in Music Theory from the University of North Texas in 2022 with a dissertation titled “Retheorizing Sonata Form from the Margins: The Keyboard Sonata in Eighteenth-Century Spain,” which examined formal and stylistic elements characteristic of Spanish composers from 1740 to 1800. Before joining the faculty at SHSU, he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Indiana University’s Jacob’s School of Music.