Recent work:
“On Conducting, Collaboration, and Curiosity in Early Music: Joshua Rifkin in Interview,” Musicology Now
“Forgotten pasts and imagined futures: the First International Webern Festival and the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair,” Twentieth-Century Music 20 (2023)
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I am a musicologist and performing musician. As a scholar, I focus on modernist music and its performance and reception in the United States, as well as intersections of modernism and early music. As a performer, I focus on early bowed instruments (including the Baroque double bass, viola da gamba, and violone) and the music of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. I have performed with ensembles such as the Handel and Haydn Society, Arcadia Players, Trinity Wall Street, and New York Baroque Incorporated, and collaborate often with Seven Times Salt.
I hold a Ph.D. in musicology from Cornell University, and I currently serve as Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley, where I also teach in the American Studies program. For samples of my work, more information on my background, or details on upcoming performances, see the pages linked above. Feel free to contact me with any questions!
