Current Musicology StudentsLauren GangerSTUDENT PROFILE Lauren Ganger graduated summa cum laude from Mercyhurst University in 2020 with a B.A. in English and music (voice) and a minor in philosophy. Upon graduation, she was the Arts recipient of the President’s Award for Excellence in the Hafenmaier College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences. She also holds…
Current Musicology StudentsBethany BrinsonSTUDENT PROFILE Bethany Brinson, originally from North Carolina, is a rising third-year Ph.D. student in musicology at the Eastman School of Music. Her research interests include 20th-century sound art and continued experimental and poststructural approaches to composition, particularly involving mimesis and naturalism. She has participated in intensive learning experiences to support and…
Current Musicology StudentsPaul David FloodSTUDENT PROFILE Paul David Flood (he/him) is a Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology whose research engages questions surrounding migration, diaspora, and globalization in contemporary European popular and avant-garde musics. His dissertation asks how members of Europe’s migrant and diasporic communities have engaged with the Eurovision Song Contest in ways that complicate notions of European…
Current Musicology StudentsLauren BerlinSTUDENT PROFILE Lauren Berlin (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology whose primary research explores the intersections of television music, broadcasting culture, and transnational circulation. Her dissertation examines TV musical variety shows from 1948–1965 as a site for the performance and formation of postwar American identity. She has presented work at annual…
Piano Accompanying and MusicologyHannah HarnestPiano Accompanying and MusicologySTUDENT PROFILE German-American pianist Hannah Harnest, “excellent” (Concerto.net, Harry Rolnick), has concertized, amongst others, at the Philharmonic Hall (Munich), Wigmore Hall (London), Center for Jewish History and National Sawdust (New York), Harris Concert Hall (Aspen), and the Richard B. Fisher Center at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson). An invited resident…
