• Email Address: smirchandani@rider.edu
• Phone: (609) 921-7100, ext. 8313
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• Office: Williamson Hall 44
• Mailing Address: 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540

Dr. Mirchandani is Associate Professor of Music History and Theory at Westminster Choir College of Rider University.  She received her Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance (with a pedagogy emphasis) from Bowling Green State University, her (double) Master of Music degree in Music History and Piano Accompanying & Chamber Music from Temple University, and her Ph.D. in Musicology from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.  Her research interests are women composers, American music, historiography, and twentieth-century music.

Dr. Mirchandani has presented research papers at the annual meeting of the Journal of the American Musicological Society, the annual meeting of the Society for American Music (formerly the Sonneck Society), and College Music Society meetings; and served as a panelist at the College Music Society and the Mid-Atlantic Women’s Studies Conference.

Her publications include articles in Choral Journal, James Briscoe’s Historical Anthology of Music by Women, Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia, The Hymn, Journal for the International Alliance for Women in Music, and Clavier.

She is currently working on a biography of American composer Marga Richter (b. 1926), and is a board member of the International Alliance for Women in Music.