Graduate Students in Musicology at Eastman

 

Student News & Updates

Two Eastman Musicology Students present papers at AMS national meeting in Philadelphia, Nov. 2009:

  • Cristina Fava, “The Downfall of the Composers’ Collective: Musical or Political Fiasco?” on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 14, 2009.
  • Martin Nedbal (dissertation defended July 2009),”Preaching (German) Morals in Vienna: The Case of Mozart and Umlauf,” on Sunday morning, Nov. 15, 2009.

Two Eastman Musicology PhD Students presented papers at the AMS New York State – St. Lawrence Chapter Meeting, at McGill University in April 2009.

  • Emily Mills, “Charles Griffes and Kubla Kahn”
  • Kimberly Hannon, “Imagining Africa: Duke Ellington and the Jungle”
    Awarded the prize for best student paper
 

PhD Students, by Entrance Year

entered 2009

Regina Compton completed a BM in Clarinet Performance at Southern Methodist University and an MM in Music History at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati. Her research interests include 19th-century music and aesthetics. rcompton@u.rochester.edu

entered 2008

Rohan Krishnamurthy completed the BA at Kalamazoo College with a double-degree in music and chemistry. He is a Provost Fellow and a percussionist who specializes in South Indian music. He is organizing a South Indian percussion ensemble at Eastman. rohan@rohanrhythm.com

Anne Marie Weaver completed a BA in English at Goshen College and an MM in piano at Bowling Green State University. She is interested in 19th- and 20th-century music. annemarie.weaver@rochester.edu

entered 2007

Tyler Cassidy-Heacock completed the BA at Oberlin. She is active in Eastman’s contemporary music ensemble Ossia, and she sings with the early music vocal ensemble Schola Cantorum. Her research interest is in 20th century and contemporary vocal music. tyler.cassidyheacock@gmail.com

Emily Mills completed BA and MA degrees at Pennsylvania State University. She is interested in sacred music around 1500, and she sings with the early music vocal ensemble Schola Cantorum. emily.mills@rochester.edu

Alexander Stefaniak completed the BA at Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio. He is a Sproull Fellow, and has an interest in 19th-century music. astefan5@u.rochester.edu

entered 2006

Naomi Gregory completed the BA and MPhil at Cambridge University. She is a double-degree student, PhD in Musicology and DMA in organ, and she is a Sproull Fellow. During 2008-9 she is on leave in England. ngregory@u.rochester.edu

Kimberly Hannon completed the BM in trumpet performance at the University of Oregon. She is pursuing research on jazz and canon formation. khannon@u.rochester.edu

Amy Kintner completed the BA in English and German at the University of Portland in Oregon, while also studying music and performing on the clarinet. She spent a year on a Fulbright Fellowship in Vienna before coming to Eastman. amy.schadenfroh@gmail.com

entered 2005

Caroline Ehman completed her BMus and MA from McGill University. She is a Sproull Fellow, and also the recipient of a Canadian fellowship from the SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council). Her dissertation topic is on treatments of the Faust legend in contemporary opera. cehman@u.rochester.edu

Katherine Hutchings earned the DMA in percussion at Eastman, and is now pursuing the PhD in Musicology. Her dissertation, "Mediating Ancients and Moderns, Humanists and Scholastics: Johannes Ciconia's Nova musica and Its Cultural Contexts." is in progress. kh010j@u.rochester.edu

Hannah Mowrey completed an MM in Musicology at Rice University and a BM in piano performance from Texas Christian University. Her dissertation on choirbooks of Renaissance music, “Intersections of Music, Art, and Theology in the Alamire Scriptorium Manuscripts,” is in progress. hannah.mowrey@rochester.edu

Tanya Sermer completed the BMus at McGill University. She has completed the MA in Ethnomusicology, and her dissertation topic is on “Soundscapes of the Old City of Jerusalem: Musical Practice, Communal Identity, and the Politics of Place”. She is on leave during 2008-9. tanya.sermer@rochester.edu

entered 2004

Maria Cristina Fava completed an MM in Music History and an MM in Ethnomusicology at Bowling Green State University, and she is a native of Italy. Her dissertation, "Marc Blitzstein and the Political Value of Music: New York City in the 1930s," is in progress. mfava@u.rochester.edu

Lara Housez completed her degrees at the University of Western Ontario. Her dissertation, “Becoming Stephen Sondheim: From Forum to Company,” is in progress. She presented a paper on her research at the national meeting of the AMS in Nashville (2008). laraevelyn@yahoo.com

Cindy L. Kim completed her BM and MM degrees in viola at Eastman, and then entered our PhD program. She spent part of summer 2008 in Parma undertaking research at the Centro Internazionale di Ricerca sui Periodici Musicali (CIRPeM). Her dissertation, “Changing Meanings of Ornamentation in 19th-Century Italian Opera (1810-1850),” is in progress. cindy.kim@rochester.edu

entered 2003

Matthew Morrow completed the BA at Bucknell University. He is a Sproull Fellow, and during Fall semester 2008 he is in Paris on the Glenn Watkins Traveling Fellowship, awarded by the Musicology Department. His dissertation, “’Complex Impressions’: The Representation of Nature in the Music of Claude Debussy (c. 1879-1913),” is in progress. mmorrow@u.rochester.edu

Jennifer Ronyak completed her prior degrees at the University of Cincinnati (BM) and the University of Akron (MM). She received a DAAD fellowship in 2007-8 for dissertation research in Berlin. In 2008-9 she received a fellowship from the AAUW. Her dissertation, “Performing the Lied, Performing the Self: Enacting German Subjectivity through Lied Performance in Germany, 1780-1830,” is in progress. jronyak@mac.com

 

MA Students in Ethnomusicology

entered 2008

Julie Beauregard completed BM and MA degrees in Music Education at Eastman, and is a double degree student for the PhD in Music Education and the MA in Ethnomusicology.  She is active as a K-12 vocal and general music teacher, and here ethnomusicological area of research lies in investigating the role and identity formation of the master musician in various cultures. jbeaureg@u.rochester.edu

Guan Xin comes to us from Shanghai, and she is interested in Chinese opera. xguan2@u.rochester.edu

Erica Jones completed the BA in music at the University of Rochester, and she has studied in south India. erica.s.jones42@gmail.com

Rohan Krishnamurthy is also enrolled for the PhD in Musicology (see above).

entered 2006

Hanita Blair is a singer-guitarist who is active as a cantor at synagogues in Syracuse. Hblair1@twcny.rr.com

David Ferreira completed a degree in music therapy at Nazareth College, and he plays the steel drum with various bands. panstepper@yahoo.com