A musicologist dedicated to teaching and research with a specialty in sacred music from the sixteenth through early nineteenth centuries in New Spain and Europe
Employment
Elmhurst University
Assistant Professor • Department of Music 2023-
Visiting Assistant Professor • Department of Music 2021-2023
Lecturer • Department of Music 2017-2018
Columbia College Chicago 2012-2021
Lecturer • Department of Music
University of Maryland, College Park 2015-2016
Lecturer • Musicology and Ethnomusicology Division • School of Music
Education
Northwestern University, Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music 2014
Ph.D. with Honors, Musicology
Dissertation: “The Matins Responsory at Mexico City Cathedral, 1575-1815”
Advisor: Drew Edward Davies
Committee: Linda Austern, Thomas Bauman, Robert Gjerdingen
University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Music 2005
M.A., Music
University of California, Davis, Department of Music; Department of Spanish 2003
B.A., Music
B.A., Spanish
Selected Publications
[In Development] The Basilica of Guadalupe, Mexico City: The Musical History of a Multivalent Image’s Sacred Space.
[Awaiting Proofs] Ignacio Jerusalem y Stella, “Christmas Matins/Maitines de Navidad,” Madrid: Dairea Editions.
Ignacio Jerusalem y Stella, Requiem (1760), Recent Researches in the music of the Classical Era
C116, Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2022.
“Pervivencia y renovación del responsorio en los siglos dieciocho y diecinueve.” [Tradition and
Renovation of the Responsory in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.”] In: Catálogo de las obras de música en el Archivo del Cabildo de la Catedral Metropolitano de México, vol. 3: Responsorios. Lucero Enríquez, Drew E. Davies, and Analía Cherñavsky, eds. Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (IIE-UNAM), 2019.
“Antonio Juanas como vínculo entre pasado y presente visto a través de los responsorios de la catedral de México.” [“Antonio Juanas as a Link between the Past and Present seen through the Responsories of the Mexico City Cathedral.”] In: De música y cultura en la Nueva España y el México independiente: testimonios de innovación y pervivencia. Lucero Enríquez Rubio, ed. Ritual sonoro 2. Mexico City: IIE-UNAM, 2017.
“Between stile antico and galant: An Authorship Complex of Eighteenth-Century Responsories for the Santísima Trinidad at Mexico City Cathedral.” In: Haydn and his Contemporaries II. Kathryn Libin, ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Steglein Press, 2015, 1-17.
[Book Review] “De Nueva España a México: El universo musical mexicano entre centenarios
(1517–1917). Edited by Marín-López, Javier. Seville: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, 2020.” Hispanic American Historical Review 102:1 (2022), 135-136.
[Conference Report] “International Conference on Colonial Music: Music and Arts of Colonial New Spain, Florida International University, 5-7 March 2020,” Eighteenth Century Music, 18:1 (2021), 235-237.
[Recording Review] “LA ESFERA DE APOLO: MUSIC FROM 18th CENTURY LIMA, PERU
Música Temprana / Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel (director).” Eighteenth-Century Music, 2019.
[Book Review] “Le Guin, Elisabeth. The Tonadilla in Performance: Lyric Comedy in Enlightenment Spain. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2014.” Eighteenth-Century Music 14:1 (2017), 127-129.
[Book Review] “Vicente, Alfonso de. Tomás Luis de Victoria en el siglo xviii. Cuadernos Tomás Luis de Victoria 1. Miján: Industrias Gráficas Abulenses, 2012.” Eighteenth-Century Music 12:1 (2015), 98-100.
[Conference Report] “American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Williamsburg, VA, 20-22 March 2014.” Eighteenth-Century Music 12:1 (2015), 127-130.
Selected Conference Papers and Presentations
“La música de Ignacio Jerusalem para los maitines en la Basílica de Guadalupe (Ciudad de México) • Ignacio Jerusalem 250: Músicas galantes entre Italia, la peninsula ibérica, y el nuevo mundo, Baeza, Spain, 4-5 December 2019. [presented in Spanish]
“Ignacio Jerusalem’s Sources at the Basilica de Guadalupe, Mexico City” • Coloquio Internacional Multidisciplinario Ignacio Jerusalem (1707-1769) y su tiempo, Mexico City, Mexico, 11-13 November 2019.
“Missing Pieces of a Forgotten Story: Archival Work and Source Status in Mexico” • Eighth Biennial Conference of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, Tallahassee, Florida, 22-25 February 2018.
“Segundas manos: ¿autoría o atribución?” • XV Aniversario del Seminario de Música en la Nueva España y el México Independiente y el marco del X Aniversario de la inscripción en la lista del patrimonio mundial del Campus Central de la Ciudad Universitaria de la UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico, 21-24 November 2017. [presented in Spanish]
“Intertextuality in “Latin” Villancicos for Mexico City Cathedral during the Late Seventeenth Century” • Annual Conference of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, Miami, Florida, 14-17 April 2016.
“Intertextualidad en villancicos ‘latinos’ para la catedral de México a los finales del siglo diecisiete” • Nuevas perspectivas en torno al villancico y géneros afines en el mundo ibérico, Baeza, Spain, 2-4 December 2014. [presented in Spanish]
“Authorship and Intent in Ignacio Jerusalem’s Responsory Cycle for the Virgin of Guadalupe” • American Musicological Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 6-9 November 2014.
“Musical Requests in Chantry Endowments from Seventeenth-Century Mexico City Cathedral” •
Annual Conference of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, San Antonio, Texas, 3-6 April 2014.
“Adaptation as Authorship of Eighteenth Century Responsories for Holy Trinity at Mexico City Cathedral” • Fifth Biennial Joint Conference of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music and the Haydn Society of North America, Charleston, South Carolina, 13-15 April 2012.
Courses Taught
Music History II – c.1750 to Present, Elmhurst University 2018, 2022-2024
Undergraduate level; music-major requirement (45 students)
Musics of Latin America, Elmhurst University 2017, 2022-23
Undergraduate level, music-major elective (9 students)
Music History I – Antiquity to c.1750, Elmhurst University 2017, 2021-23
Undergraduate level; music-major requirement (45 students)
Music in Western Culture, Elmhurst University 2022
Undergraduate level; non-major elective (13 students)
Music in Judaism and Jewish Culture, Elmhurst University 2018
Undergraduate level; music-major elective (7 students)
Symphonic Literature, University of Maryland, College Park 2016
Graduate level; degree elective (10 students)
Survey of the Opera, University of Maryland, College Park 2016
Graduate level; degree requirement of Maryland Opera Studio students (25 students)
Music in the Classic Era, University of Maryland, College Park 2015
Graduate level; degree elective (7 students)
Music History I – Antiquity to c.1600, University of Maryland, College Park 2015
Undergraduate level; music-major requirement (45 students)
Survey of Music Literature, University of Maryland, College Park 2015
Undergraduate level; non-major elective (60 students)
Music, Time and Place I: Western Classical Tradition, Columbia College 2014; 2016
Undergraduate level; music-major requirement (30 students)
Music, Time, and Place I: Cross-Cultural Themes, Columbia College 2014
Undergraduate level; music-major requirement (20 students)
Music Through the Ages: From Chant to R&B, Columbia College 2014-2017
Undergraduate level; non-major elective [online] (26 students)
Music History and Analysis I, Columbia College Chicago (2 sections) 2012-2013
Undergraduate level; music-major requirement (30 students/section)
Masterpieces of Opera, Northwestern University 2009
Undergraduate level; non-major elective (26 students)
Introduction to Music, Northwestern University 2008
Undergraduate level; non-major elective (36 students)
Introduction to Music, Northwestern University 2008
Undergraduate level; non-major elective (79 students)
Academic Service
Director-at-Large • Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, Term: 2017-2019.
Program Committee Chair • Biennial Conference of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, San Antonio, Texas, 25-28 February 2016.
Organizer and Panel Chair: • “What Must a Musicologist Know?: Form and Content of the Musicology PhD Curriculum” • Panel sponsored by the Graduate Education Committee, American Musicological Society, Louisville, Kentucky, 12-15 November 2015.
Organizer and Panel Chair • “Production and Reception of European Music in the Eighteenth-century Americas” • American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Williamsburg, Virginia, 20-22 March 2014.
Member • Seminario de Música en la Nueva España y el México Independiente, based at the
Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. [http://musicat.unam.mx]
Community Service
Board Member • Beth Hillel B’nai Emunah (Term 2017-2023)
Member of the general governing board of a local synagogue.
Scholar-in-Residence • Chicago Arts Orchestra
Artistic Advisor • “Rediscovered Treasures: Music of Eighteenth-Century Spain and Mexico Series.” Annual concert series by the Chicago Arts Orchestra, Javier Mendoza, conductor. Chicago, Illinois, 2010-2017.
Consultant for recording Chicago Arts Orchestra’s Al Combate on the Navona label, Fall-Winter 2012.
Languages
Spanish: Fluent
French: Basic to Intermediate reading
Latin: Liturgical reading
Hebrew: Basic reading
Selected Performance Experience
Guest Artist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (shofar) 2022
Performer on “Max Janowski: The Great Works, Vol. 1” recording 2022
Member of Kol Zimrah (soprano/alto) 2019-2023
Director of Wilmetsky Klezmer Orchestra (modern violin) 2017-2023
Elmhurst University Wind Ensemble (modern oboe) 2017-2023
Elmhurst University Philharmonic Orchestra (modern oboe and modern violin) 2017-2020