About

I hold a PhD in Musicology from the CUNY Graduate Center. My research focuses on the Wagnerian legacy in fin-de-siècle France, and particularly on the impact it had on French chamber music during this period. I work full-time at Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) as Subscriptions Manager and Product Development Coordinator for the Index to Printed Music. I’m also a lecturer at the Metropolitan Opera Guild, leading classes for the Guild’s Opera Boot Camp and Score Reading courses. I sing professionally with Polyhymnia, a choir devoted to Renaissance sacred music.

Blog Posts

    Publications

    PhD dissertation, “Chamber Music, Cyclic Form, and the Ideal of the Absolute in French Music and Literature, 1890–1918”, September 2019

    “A Canadian Jew in Queen Elizabeth’s Court: A Jewish perspective on Byrd’s Ne irascaris,” blog post for Polyhymnia, August 2020

    “How voice lessons helped me survive lockdown — and a broken wrist,” blog post for Polyhymnia, July 2020

    “The Language of an Unknown Country: Intratextuality in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time,”  19th-Century Music (2012) 36 (2): 136–145.

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