About me
Bruce Ronkin, Professor of Music at Northeastern University, teaches courses in topics including music business, music publishing, and copyright. With extensive experience in music performance and music publishing, Ronkin brings to the classroom a combination of professional and scholarly experiences that help prepare the next generation of music industry thought leaders. His research focuses on the synergies of art and commerce in the world of music.
Ronkin earned the Bachelor of Music degree in music performance at the Eastman School of Music, the Master of Music at Indiana University, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in performance and pedagogy at the University of Maryland. He studied saxophone with Eugene Rousseau, Ramon Ricker, Reginald Jackson, and William Osseck. Ronkin has become widely known as a pioneering specialist on the Wind Synthesizer, an electronic wind instrument. He served as President of the International Wind Synthesis Association, Vice President of the North American Saxophone Alliance, and is currently on the board of the Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association.
Dr. Ronkin has published articles in the Journal of the Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association, the Saxophone Symposium, and the Saxophone Journal. His publications include the book Londeix Guide to the Saxophone Repertoire, co-authored with French saxophone virtuoso Jean-Marie Londeix, the two-volume work, The Orchestral Saxophonist, co-authored with Robert Frascotti (a required text at universities and conservatories throughout the world), and The Adolphe Sax Series, a collection of critical modern editions of music for saxophone and piano originally published in the 1850s and 1860s by saxophone inventor Adolphe Sax. Ronkin is currently the editor of the Journal of the Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association. He has previously served as Northeastern’s Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Interim Dean of Northeastern’s College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Arts, Media and Design, and Chair of Northeastern’s Music Department.
