Directory

Industry Experience

• Artist-in-Residence, Leverett House, Harvard University
• Recording artist for Danacord, Copenhagen

Select Concert and Lecture Appearances

• 2017 – University of Texas, Austin
• 2017 – Uppsala University
• 2017 – Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm
• 2017 – Stockholm University
• 2017 – Harvard University
• 2016 – Uppsala University
• 2016 – Stockholm University
• 2016 – Scandinavian Cultural Center,
• 2016 – Swedish Cultural Center, Washington, DC
• 2016 – Gustav Mahler Vereinigung, Hamburg, Germany
• 2016 – Internationale Gustav-Mahler Gesellschaft, Vienna
• 2016 – Jihlava (Czech Republic) Department of Tourism
• 2016 – International School of Boston
• 2016 – Harvard University: Conway Concerts at Leverett House

Publications

Monographs, Edited Volumes and Journals

• 2018 – Jean Cras, Polymath of music and Letters, 2nd edition, Peter Lang Publishers; in preparation
• 2016 – Naturlauf: Scholarly Excursions Toward Gustav Mahler, Essays in Honour of Henry-Louis de La Grange at His 90th Birthday. Editor/Contributor. New York: Peter Lang Publishing; 672 p.

Articles

• 2017 – “Restoring Luise Greger: A Renaissance in Progress,” in Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music (Vol. 23, no. 1, 2017)
• 2015 – “Jean Cras, Musicien-Marin” in Mon violon m’a sauvé la vie – Destins de musiciens dans la Grande Guerre. Musée de Meaux (France); in press
• 2011 – “Felix Mednelssohn’s Reformation Symphony and the Culture of Assimilation,” in Harvard University Center for European Studies Working Paper Series; online, at 25 pp.
• 2011 – “The Location of Mendelssohn’s Culture: Religious Counterpoint, Confusion and Synthesis in the Reformation Symphony,” in Ars Lyrica 19, pp.27-56
• 2011 – “Lori Laitman,” in The New Grove Dictionary of American Music
• 2010 – “Rita Strohl, Classicist or Mystic?” in Journal of the International Association of Women in the Arts, pp. 17-22
• 2010 – “The Abergavenny Eisteddfod of 1838 and the Birth of Barzaz Breiz,” in Ars Lyrica Celtica (Ars Lyrica 17), pp.97-129
• 2009 – “The Breton Compositions of Jean Cras” in Proceedings of the 23rd Harvard Celtic Colloquium

Professional Affiliations and Organizations

• American Musicological Society
• Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations – President
• American Comparative Literature Association
• National Opera Association

Awards and Recognitions

• 2017 – Appointed Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) by the Government of France
• 2016 – Honored by the Cities of Vienna and Jihlava for research and publication on Gustav Mahler
• 2014 – Winner of the Austrian-American Association of Boston’s Annual Scholarship Competition
• 2010 – Honored by the Regional Arts Council of Brittany for biography of Jean Cras
• 1998 – Winner of the Scholarly Papers Competition of the National Opera Association

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