Yonatan Malin is Associate Professor in the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music. His research explores musical structure and meaning a wide variety of genres including German Lieder, Klezmer, and Jewish liturgical music. His book Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied was published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. He has published articles in Music Analysis and Music Theory Spectrum, and a chapter in the edited volume Expressive Intersections in Brahms (2012). Professor Malin received a PhD from the University of Chicago, and he has presented papers at national meetings of the Society for Music Theory and the Society for Ethnomusicology, at the First International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music, and at the conference Magnified and Sanctified: The Music of Jewish Prayer. In the fall of 2013, he presented 'Commentary on a Niggun' in the CU-Boulder Symposium 'Embodied Judaism: The Sound of Ecstasy,' honoring Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. Before joining the faculty at CU Boulder, Malin was Associate Professor at Wesleyan University.
Biography from the University of Colorado Boulder website (*also the photo was taken from this site)