Elliott Antokoletz, Professor of Musicology at the University of Texas at Austin, has held the Alice Mackie Scott Tacquard Endowed Centennial Chair (1983-4) and E.W. Doty Professorship in Fine Arts (1994-1995). He is the author of The Music of Béla Bartók: A Study of Tonality and Progression in Twentieth-Century Music (University of California Press, 1984), Béla Bartók, A Guide To Research (Garland, 1988; 2nd ed. rev. 1997), Twentieth Century Music (Prentice Hall, 1992), Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartók: Trauma, Gender, and the Unfolding of the Unconscious (Oxford, 2004), and is contributing editor of Bartók Perspectives: Man, Composer, and Ethnomusicologist (Oxford, 2000). He is also co-editor of the International Journal of Musicology (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, annual since 1992) and editor of Georg von Albrecht: From Musical Folklore to Twelve-Tone Technique: Memoirs of a Musician Between East and West (Scarecrow Press, 2004). He contributed several entries to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He has contributed numerous articles to most of the major music journals and contributed chapters to various book compilations such as the Sibelius Studies volume (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Encomium Musicae: Essays in Honor of Robert J. Snow (Pendragon, 2002) on 20th-century composers from Spain, The Bartók Companion (Faber and Faber, 1993), and Copland and His Times (Princeton, 2005).
In 1982 he served as scholarly evaluator for the Harry Ransom Center (HRC) at the University of Texas for acquisition of the Stravinsky Archive as well as archival collections of Ravel, Dukas, Roussel, Fauré, and Debussy. The “Elliott Antokoletz Bartókiana Collection” is housed, together with the “Benjamin Suchoff Bartókiana Collection” (Former Trustee of the Béla Bartók Estate and Head of the New York Bartók Archive), at the University of South Florida at Tampa. Antokoletz has lectured in Hungary, Germany, England, Spain, Mexico, Australia, and throughout the United States. He received the Béla Bartók Memorial Plaque and Diploma from the Hungarian Government in 1981, two subventions from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1980 and 1982, a Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Texas in 1981, and the Ph.D. Alumni Award from the City University of New York in 1987. In March 2000 he was the Director of the highly successful Bartók International Congress at the University of Texas. Antokoletz majored in violin performance under Dorothy Delay and Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School of Music (1960-1965), and received his Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from the City University of New York (1975). From 1973 to 1976, he taught theory and chamber music at Queens College, where he was a member of the Faculty String Quartet, and was also concertmaster of the New Repertory Ensemble of New York.