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Kevin Bartig holds a bachelor’s degree in music performance and physics from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a master’s degree in musicology from UNC. Currently a doctoral student, he is writing a dissertation titled "Composing for the Red Screen: The Film Music of Sergei Prokofiev." Kevin is the recipient of the Andrew Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship and is a contributing author to Prokofiev and His World, forthcoming from Princeton University Press. He remains active as a collaborative pianist and teacher in the Triangle area. |
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Will Boone is generally excited about music and life and all of the places they meet. As a student, he is especially interested in African American Gospel music, particularly its evolution, its relationship with secular music, its cultural functions, and the relationships between religious experiences and music. He graduated with a BA in Music from this very institution in 2003. The following years found him playing lead guitar at Faith Assembly Christian Center in Durham, NC, writing and performing with an "original progressive party rock" outfit known as Other Nature, and imbibing the music and culture of Austin, Texas. His less musicological modes of being often involve offshore fishing, running, humor, and good fiction. |
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Molly M. Breckling is a native of Appleton, Wisconsin. She holds a B.S. in Music-Liberal Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, an M.M. in Vocal Performance from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN, an M.A. in Music History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an M.A. in Musicology from UNC. She published an article in the Summer, 2004 volume of Music Research Forum on issues of narrative and epistemology in the art songs of Gustav Mahler. She is working on a dissertation on narrative in the ballads from Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Molly has served as an adjunct faculty member teaching Music Appreciation for Austin Peay State University since 1998. |
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Michele Clark received a Bachelor's degree in music education from Houghton College and both an M.A. in musicology and an M.M. in flute performance and literature at UNC-Chapel Hill. The recipient of a Fulbright grant and a UNC Dissertation Completion Fellowship, she has made several trips to Vienna to continue archival work for her dissertation, "The Reception and Performance Settings of Rossini's Operas in Vienna, 1822-1825". Her research interests include the parody tradition in Viennese theaters during the nineteenth century, the Anglo-French connection in the music of John Dunstable, and film history. She remains active as a professional flutist, participating in several local ensembles and teaching her private flute studio. She taught in public school for four years and is currently an adjunct instructor of music history at North Carolina Wesleyan College. |
mclark2@email.unc.edu |
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Christian Conkle comes to Chapel Hill from the sunny shores of California by way of Iowa, where he earned his B.A. in music at Grinnell College. His research focuses broadly on the music of Europe and the United States, strongly informed by his interests in economics and other exotic fields. Christian has also been known to attempt composing, conducting, and performing music as a harpsichordist, hornist, and vocalist, with distinctly variable success. |
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Christina DeCiantis holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Performance from Furman University. She has played the violin for eighteen years, and has been a private instructor for almost nine years. Her research interests include Ethnomusicology, specifically East-Asian folk music, and polyphony in twelfth-century Notre Dame. When she is not playing her violin or researching, Christina loves to write, sing, and dance swing and salsa. She also enjoys cooking and has a brown belt in the Korean martial art of Hap Ki Do. |
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Kimberly Francis is a Ph. D. candidate in
musicology at UNC-Chapel Hill working on a dissertation entitled:
“Mediating Modern Music: Nadia Boulanger Constructs Igor Stravinsky.”
Recipient of the AMS Eugene K. Wolfe Travel Award and the UNC Georges
Lurcy Fellowship, Kimberly will spend next year conducting research in
France and Switzerland. A native of Burlington, Ontario, Canada,
Kimberly holds a B(Mus) from the University of Western Ontario, and
both an M(Mus) in oboe performance and an MA in musicology and Women’s
Studies from the University of Ottawa. Kimberly currently works as a
teaching assistant for both the music and women’s studies departments
at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include: gender,
twentieth-century art music, trans-cultural exchange, exoticism in
popular culture, and Mozart opera. |
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Matthew Franke completed his B.A. in music at the University of Puget Sound in 2007 with a focus in music history. As a first-year graduate student, his interests are broad, though the construction and interpretation of musical meaning are central to his interests in film music, the English lute-song, and Puccini’s operas. As a classical guitarist, he is also interested in the early history and masters of the guitar. When he’s not studying musicology, Matthew occasionally writes music and reads history for fun. |
mmfranke@email.unc.edu |
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Joe Gennaro, originally from
Orlando, Florida, received his B.A. (Piano Performance) from the
University of Central Florida in 1999 and his M.A. in Musicology from
UNC-Chapel Hill in 2003. He is currently working on his dissertation
under the direction of Jon Finson: "The Genesis and Reception History of
Robert Schumann’s Kerner Liederreihe, Op. 35." His interests
include the piano sonatas of Beethoven, Samuel Barber's songs, German
Lieder in the 19th century, and rock music. |
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Will Gibbons holds a B.A. from Emory & Henry College, where he studied Collaborative Piano and French Language/Literature, and an M.A. in musicology from UNC-CH, for which he wrote a thesis on voice range and transposition in Monteverdi’s madrigals. His dissertation subject is the reception of classical-period opera in Paris around the turn of the twentieth century. Also active as a performer, Will frequently plays harpsichord and organ with the UNC Baroque Ensemble and Consort of Viols, and remains active as a piano performer and teacher, serving as an adjunct instructor of piano at UNC. In addition to his dissertation topic, Will’s major areas of research interest include nineteenth-century American music and music in video games. |
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Jason Gottschalk holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in
choral conducting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
the Master of Sacred Music degree in organ and choral conducting from
Luther Seminary and St. Olaf College (Minnesota) and the Bachelor of
Music degree in organ performance from Wheaton College and Conservatory
of Music (Illinois). He maintains an active performance career as an
organist and conductor. He has directed ensembles throughout the
southeastern United States and on concert tours of Germany, the Czech
Republic, and Hungary. |
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Naomi Graber is a recent graduate of Brandeis University where she received degrees in Music and English Literature. She hopes to study both the late eighteenth century and in American musical theatre. When not studying, you might find her singing, playing Scrabble, or contra dancing when the opportunity arises. |
ngraber@email.unc.edu |
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Dan Guberman is from South Setauket, New York. He
received a Bachelor of Music in double bass performance from the
Eastman School of Music in 2006. As a first-year graduate student in
musicology, he is interested in the interaction of music and culture in
the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in live concerts. He is
excited at the prospect of not waking up to snow on the ground in April
anymore. |
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Irina Iliescu received her degree in music theory and education from the UNM Bucharest, Romania. In 2005 she received her M.A. from UNC-CH on a thesis entitled "Wagner's Kundry: the Musical Portrayal of the Hegelian Slave." She is currently working on a dissertation entitled “Setting in Motion the Machinery of Awe: Hoffmann’s Beethoven and the Transformation of Music Criticism.” This combines her research interests in early Romantic German aesthetics, addressing issues such as reception, audience, narrative strategies, and philosophy in the Beethoven era. Her wider interests include Byzantine studies, with a focus on Byzantine chant, iconography, patristics and history. |
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Peter Lamothe received his B.A. in Music Theory and Composition and M.A. in Music from the University of New Hampshire. He is the recipient of a Pew Younger Scholar Fellowship and won a Doctoral Research Travel Award from UNC-Chapel Hill to begin archival work in Paris during the summer of 2003. He spent time in Paris through a Fulbright fellowship to continue archival work for his dissertation, titled "Incidental Music in France, 1864-1914." He has given papers on the reception of Richard Strauss’s Salome in Paris and on issues of genre in Massenet’s music for the play Les Érinnyes. |
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Virginia Christy Lamothe studied at the State University of New York at Fredonia where she received her B.A. in Applied Music in 2000 and has received her M.A. in Music here at UNC Chapel Hill in 2002. Her dissertation is entitled “The Theater of Piety: Sacred Operas for the Barberini family in Rome (1631-1643).” She has read papers on dance and performance practice as well as music analysis and preaching practices at conferences for American Musicological Society Southeast chapter and the national meeting of the American Musicological Society in 2004. During the 2005-2006 academic year, Ginny conducted archival research in Italy as the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a first prize winner of the Lemmermann Foundation Award. Aside from her research on music in the Seventeenth Century, Ginny also performs and teaches Italian Renaissance dance. This year, Ginny is serving on the faculty at the University of Minnesota at Morris. Her forthcoming article “Fanning the Flames of Love: Hidden Performance Solutions for Monteverdi’s Ballo delle ingrate in Dance Practice” will be published later this year in the collection Performance Practice, Methods and Approaches: Papers read at the conference in Memphis March 4-6, 2007 (Steglein Press). |
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Ethan Lechner was born in Auburn, Alabama, received his B.M. at The Florida State University and his MA at UNC. He is currenlty writing a dissertation entitled "Cases of Intentional Hybridization in American Modernism." His interests range from nineteenth-century German Lieder to gamelan of Java and Bali. From 2004 through 2006 Ethan directed UNC's Central Javanese Gamelan. In 2006-2007 he is conducting research on new compositions at the musical institution of STSI-Surakarta in Central Java, funded with Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research grant. |
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Alicia Levin originally from Palatine, Illinois, received a B.M. from Illinois Wesleyan University in piano performance in 2002 and an M.A. at UNC-CH in 2004 with a thesis on country music. She is beginning work on her dissertation, entitled "Seducing Paris: Virtuoso Pianists and Artistic Identity, 1820-48," which investigates the music culture of 1830s Paris. Alicia currently works as a teaching assistant and an adjunct instructor of piano in the music department and maintains a small private piano studio. Her research interests include: French music, nineteenth-century piano music (virtuosity, improvisation), country music (Johnny Cash, Carter Family), and studies of aesthetics, reception and audience. |
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Laurie McManus completed her B.A at the College of William
and Mary as a music and history double major. Now at Chapel
Hill she is working on her dissertation "The Rhetoric of Sexuality in
German Music Criticism, 1848-1883" under the direction of Professor Jon
Finson. Recipient of a fellowship from the Berlin Program for Advanced
German and European Studies, Laurie will spend the 2008-9 academic year
researching in Germany. Her masters thesis focused on Duke Ellington's
engagement with world music in the Afro-Eurasian Eclipse. Along with a
general enthusiasm for theory and analysis across all periods, she is
also interested in aesthetics of electro-acoustic composition and early
instrumental music. In her spare time, Laurie plays harpsichord and
draws satirical music cartoons. |
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Marc Medwin, after completing a B.A. in English at Ithaca College in New York, undertook studies in musicology, both at the Eastman School of Music and, since the fall of 2000, at UNC Chapel Hill. There, he completed an M.A. thesis on the music of John Coltrane, on whom he is also presently writing his dissertation, "Listening in Double Time: Temporal Disunity and Resultant Form in the Music of John Coltrane 1965-1967." Marc has also become increasingly active in the fields of performance and criticism, writing compact disc reviews and articles for online and print journals including Dusted, Bagatellen and Cadence while performing regularly with several local free jazz and electro-acoustic ensembles. |
MMedwin@earthlink.net |
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Tim Miller is originally from Kensington, Maryland, and received his B.M. from the University of Delaware. In 2007, he received his M.M. in the History of Musical Instruments from the University of South Dakota, with a thesis on the origins and development of the pedal steel guitar. While a graduate assistant at the National Music Museum in Vermillion, SD, he conducted research in several European archives and collections, and read papers at conferences for the American Musical Instruments Society. His primary research interests involve the individual roles of instruments and instrumentalists in small ensembles, particularly in European music of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, as well as American popular and country music of the first half of the twentieth century. Tim is an active performer on double bass, lute, and theorbo, and is frequently found playing sitar, oud, mandolin, pedal steel, or whatever other stringed instruments he finds lying around the house. |
tdmiller@email.unc.edu |
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Anna Ochs hails from Chicago, IL, where she grew-up near Wrigley Field. She graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2004 with degrees in voice and anthropology. She received an M.A. in musicology from Pennsylvania State University in 2004, and is now pursuing a Ph.D. in musicology at UNC-Chapel Hill. In addition to art music, Anna is a big fan of country music and old standards. Her research interests include 18th-20th-century vocal music (especially opera), music of the Holocaust, gender studies, and performativity. |
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Allison Portnow, originally from Huntington, NY, received her Bachelor of Music at McGill University (Montreal) in 2005. In completing her Music major (Double Bass concentration) and a second major in Cultural Studies, she became interested in the interaction of these two fields. Allison completed her M.A. at UNC Chapel Hill in 2007, with a Master's Thesis on narrativity and musical time in Sibelius's "Lemminkainen Suite." Her musicological interests include musical semiotics, documentary film music, and the intersection of scientific and musical discourses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a subject that she is beginning dissertation work on. Allison continues to perform at UNC playing the bass in the UNC Symphony Orchestra, Violone in the Baroque Ensemble, and Bass Gamba in the Viol Consort. |
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Amanda Scott |
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Kathleen Sewright Undergraduate Degree – Willamette University, B.M. in Vocal
Performance, Music Therapy; B.A. in French Literature and
Language |
ksewrigh@email.unc.edu |
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Douglas Shadle, a fourth-year graduate student, graduated summa cum laude from the University of Houston in 2004 with a B.M. in viola performance and a minor in English literature. In 2006 he completed the M.A. program at UNC with a thesis on the music of African American Roman Catholics. He is currently writing a dissertation on nationalism in American orchestral music written before the Civil War. In addition to all aspects of nineteenth-century American culture, Doug’s research interests include Roman Catholic liturgical music, theology, and the music of Arthur Lourié (1892-1966). |
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| Karen Shadle is a native of Louisville, Kentucky. She received her B.A.from Centre College in 2005 with majors in music and government. Karen loves to travel and has studied local music cultures abroad in Morocco and Northern Ireland. In 2007, she completed a thesis on the operas of Mozart and his contemporaries. Her current research interests include sacred music and American psalmody. A pianist, Karen enjoys the occasional performance opportunity and is involved in music ministry in the community. | wicke@email.unc.edu |
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Carrie Stubblefield originally from Memphis, TN, holds a Bachelor’s degree in music from Towson University and a Master’s degree in music therapy from Lesley University. After several years as a practicing music therapist, Carrie has returned to academia as a first year student in musicology. While her research interests center around the vernacular musics of the American South, she is also interested in the folk-derived music of 19th and 20th century France. |
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Tara Tachovsky, originally from Bethlehem, PA, received a B.M. in music history from Rice University in 2005. Currently a second-year graduate student in musicology, she is interested in music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Moravian music, and gender studies. |
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Chris Wells graduated with high honors from Guilford College with a BA in music and political science. He earned departmental honors in music with a thesis applying methodology from comparative politics to the debate on “registers” within voice pedagogy. Now a first-year student at UNC, Chris is interested in Jazz and other African-American music from the late nineteenth century through World War II and connections with dance in both social and performance contexts. This interest is informed by Chris’s experience dancing, performing, and teaching Lindy Hop, Charleston, and other early Jazz dances both in the U.S. and in Europe. Other interests include German and American art song, music and political revolutions, and "entrance music" in professional wrestling. Chris also writes regular articles on medical liability issues for Greensboro-based Medical Justice Services, Inc. |
cjwells@email.unc.edu |
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Jeff Wright is a third-year graduate student from Mesa, Arizona. He holds a Bachelor of Musical Arts degree from DePauw University with an emphasis in music and mathematics, as well as a Master of Arts degree in Musicology from UNC. In 2007, Jeff completed a thesis examining the reception of European Disco in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. In addition to popular music, Jeff is also interested in gender and sexuality studies, American music in the first half of the 20th century, and the music of Samuel Barber. |