Daniel R. Melamed is Professor at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and has taught at Yale University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard University, and an M.A. in choral music and early music performance from Stanford University.
He is the author of Hearing Bach's Passions for general readers (updated paperback 2016), and of J.S. Bach and the German Motet; co-author (with Michael Marissen) of An Introduction to Bach Studies; and editor of the essay collections Bach Studies 2 and J. S. Bach and the Oratorio Tradition. His new book for general readers, Listening to Bach: The Mass in B Minor and the Christmas Oratorio, has just been published by Oxford University Press.
He has published articles on J. S. Bach, the Bach family, and Mozart opera; and has edited musical works from the early seventeenth to late eighteenth centuries. He served as editor of the Journal of Musicology and as vice president of the American Bach Society, and is now that society's General Editor.
He is adviser to the Bloomington Bach Cantata Project, which presents Bach’s church cantatas in performances modeled on his own, and plays bass guitar in the 80s cover band Don’t Call Me Betty.