Patricia Carpenter (music theorist)

[2] She studied several instruments, primarily piano with Ethel Leginska, as well as percussion, bassoon, and conducting.

From 1942 to 1949 she studied with Schoenberg, and in 1944 she gave the Los Angeles premiere of his Piano Concerto in the two-piano version.

Under the supervision of Albert Hofstadter in philosophy and Paul Henry Lang in musicology, she embarked upon studies in the aesthetics and history of music.

The first woman to present a keynote address to the Society of Music Theory, she served as its Vice-President from 1992 to 1994.

The Music Theory Society of New York State holds an annual competition for an emerging scholar award named after her.