Professional Interests
Music, Musicology, Classical Vocal Performance, Colonial History, Pennsylvania History
French Arabic Italian German
Degrees
Specialization
Music
Representative Publications
The Sounds of Ephrata: Developing a Research Methodology to Catalog and Study Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvanian Music Manuscripts;
, Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association;
Volume
https://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/page/Notes
“Rose=Lilie=Blume Sequence,” from Das Gesäng der einsamen und verlassenen Turtel=Taube. ;
Ephrata Cloister Associates;
2018
A Sweet “Bitter-Sweet” Find in an Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvanian Music Manuscript;
Library of Congress;
2019
https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2019/05/a-sweet-bitter-sweet-find-in-an-eighteenth-century-pennsylvanian-music-manuscript/
Representative Presentations
Authorship at the Ephrata Cloister
Ensemble Singing Pedagogy
Master Class with New York Polyphony
Awards and Honors
06/01/2018
03/01/2017
07/01/2018
Media
A New Album Re-Creates The Work Of The 1st Known Female Composers In America
https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2020/07/24/894685706/a-new-album-recreates-the-work-of-the-first-known-women-composers-in-america
Interview discussing the Music of the Ephrata Cloister and the album Voices in the Wilderness
At Ephrata, women composers may have been America’s first
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/faith-religion/2020/03/01/Ephrata-Cloister-Christopher-Herbert-Earliest-known-American-women-composers/stories/202003010022
Interview with Peter Smith regarding my research on the music of the Ephrata Cloister, including America's first female composers.
Performances and Exhibits
KOPERNIKUS by Claude Vivier
A Voyage to Paris
New York Polyphony Performance
Creative Work Review
Carmina Burana with Trinity Wall Street, New York
Desire by Hannah Lash at the Miller Theatre, New York
Desire by Hannah Lash at the Miller Theatre, New York
Fellowships, Grants and Research
Translation and musical transcription of the Zionitischer Weyrauchs-Hügel, an eighteenth-century Pennsylvanian hymnal
Winterthur Research Fellowship
Notable Courses Taught
Opera Workshop, Vocal Literature, Applied Voice, Chamber Music, Performance of Musical Theatre and Operetta, Honors Thesis, Music History
