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EDUCATION
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ph.D., Musicology – 2008
Dissertation: The Substance of Style: How Singing Creates Sound in Lieder Recordings, 1902-1939. Explores the relationship between vocal technique and performance style through 165 sound clips,
demonstrating that stylistic gestures are grounded in a singer’s vocal habits. In addition to being
historical research, this study has informed how I sing and teach singing.
SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, Post Graduate Diploma, Vocal Performance – 2003
MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, M.M., Voice Performance – 1996
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, A.B., Music, magna cum laude – 1991
ASPEN MUSIC SCHOOL
Fellow, Vocal Chamber Music program – 1992
Member, Opera Theatre Center – 1994, 1990
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Faculty Development Grant, San Francisco Conservatory of Music – 2011
First Place, Vocal Division, Los Angeles International Liszt Competition – 2004
Edison Fellowship, National Sound Archive, British Library – 2002
Sage Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University – 2000 & 1996
Spencer Prize for Excellence in Teaching (honorable mention), Cornell University – 2000
Martha Jane Dale Award in Vocal Performance, Cornell University – 2000
Harold A. Falconer Memorial Voice Scholarship, Cornell University – 1999
Isidore and Helen Sachs Memorial Prize in Music, Princeton University – 1991
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Search Committee, San Francisco Conservatory of Music – 2011
Adjudicator, Stockton Opera Association Young Artist Competition – 2011, 2010
Adjudicator, San Joaquin NATS Competition – 2010, 2008
Adjudicator, Los Angeles International Liszt Competition – 2006
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Musicological Society – 1996-present
National Association of Teachers of Singing – 2006-present
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Part-time Faculty, San Francisco Conservatory of Music – 2009-present
Faculty, Vancouver International Song Institute (Summer program) – 2011, 2012
Private voice studio: Davis, CA; San Francisco, CA; Ithaca, NY – 1996-present
Weekly lessons for 25-35 private students: pre-professional, college and pre-college levels.
Pre-college program includes quarterly recitals, a weekly studio class, instruction in sight-reading
and performance techniques. Performance projects have included productions of Dido and
Aeneas and The Coronation of Poppea as well as opera and musical theater scenes.
Teaching Artist, California Musical Theater Junior Academy – 2010-present
Taught one-day audition workshops and weeklong performance workshops;
served as the children’s ensemble vocal coach for the Music Circus productions of Oliver!
and Annie Get Your Gun. Music Circus is an equity summer stock company.
Vocal Coach, Oklahoma! UC Davis Department of Theater and Dance – 2009
Voice Faculty, San Francisco Community Music Center – 2001
UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Professor:
Vocal Pedagogy (APP 203, San Francisco Conservatory of Music) – 2012
Introductory course for graduate and undergraduate students. Topics range from the history
of vocal pedagogy to establishing a successful studio. Enrollment: 20
Opera on Record (MHL 664/753, San Francisco Conservatory of Music) – 2011, 2010
Graduate seminar. Introduces a systematic approach to finding and evaluating recordings,
with an emphasis on opera. Sometimes taught as a proseminar, with emphasis on research
methods and a significant term paper. Enrollment: 15-20
German Lieder (MHL 717, San Francisco Conservatory of Music) – 2010, 2009
Graduate seminar. An introduction to poetic forms, the lives and works of the major Lied
composers (Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Wolf and Strauss) and the history of
Lieder performers and performance style. Enrollment: 17
Topics in Music History: 18th/19th c. (MHL 602, San Francisco Conservatory of Music) – 2011, 2012
Graduate review course. Topics include early French and Italian Baroque styles; Sonata Form;
Beethoven; Opera Scene Structure; and 19th c. Transcription. Enrollment: 28-30
Instructor:
Freshman Writing Seminar: The Value of Virtuosity (Cornell University, MUS 111-1) – 1999-2000
Examined how virtuosity creates both musical and extra-musical meaning in repertoire
ranging from rap to heavy metal to classical art music. Enrollment: 17
Individual Instruction in Voice (Cornell University, MUS 321) – 1999-2000
Students were music majors and music graduate students whose primary instrument
was voice. Enrollment: 6
Teaching Assistant:
Introduction to Opera (MUS 274, Cornell University) – 1997, 1998
Survey course for non-majors. Professors Rebecca Harris-Warrick and David Rosen.
Enrollment: 45
History of Rock (MUS 221, Cornell University) – 1999
Survey course for non-majors. Professor Judith Peraino. Enrollment: 95
Introduction to World Music (MUS 103, Cornell University) – 1998
Survey course for non-majors. Professor Judith Peraino. Enrollment: 95
The Handel Project (Manhattan School of Music) – 1994-1996
Introduction to Baroque performance techniques for graduate students in voice,
culminating in staged performances of Deidamia and Tamerlano at Merkin Hall (NY)
and the Caramoor Festival. Gave individual coachings in improvised ornamentation and
Italian recitative declamation. Maestro Will Crutchfield. Enrollment: 14
INVITED LECTURES AND MASTER CLASSES
“The Hugo Wolf Society Recordings” – 2012
The Vancouver International Song Institute
“Stealing rubato: Using old recordings to inspire new ideas for modern performances” – 2011
The Vancouver International Song Institute
“The Lieder recordings of Strauss, Mahler, and their conductor colleagues” – 2011
The Vancouver International Song Institute
Voice Master Class, Stanford University – 2010
“Recycling Richard: Strauss’ recordings of his own Lieder and the meaning of notation”
Stanford University, AMS meeting, Northern California Chapter – 2010
Oxford University – 2010
King’s College, London – 2010
“Vocal portamento: Habit or Choice?” British Library, Saul Seminar – 2010
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, MHL 730, Mozart Opera (Bruce Lamott) – 2009
“Give & Take: Teaching rubato using historic Lieder recordings”
San Joaquin NATS Meeting, University of the Pacific – 2009
“A lecture-recital exploring rubato in historic Lieder recordings”
Festschrift to honor the 70th birthday of Neal Zaslaw, Cornell University – 2009
Voice Master Class, University of the Pacific (given jointly with Will Crutchfield) – 2009
“Early Recordings and Modern Performance,” a lecture-recital with Will Crutchfield
University of California, Berkeley, Music Department Colloquium – 2009
University of California, Davis, Valente Memorial Lecture – 2009
San Francisco Conservatory of Music – 2009
Stanford University, Symposium on Early Recordings and Performance – 2009
Guest Lecture, Stanford University, Early Recordings Seminar (George Barth/Kumaran Arul) – 2008
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
Solo Recitals:
Inaugurating the Wieck fortepiano – UC Berkeley – 2012
Jewish Voices: Songs from the Old World, Tunes from the New – Sacramento, CA – 2011
A. Jess Shenson Recital Series – Palo Alto, CA – 2010
Absolute Music – Santa Rosa, CA – 2010, 2008
Mondavi Center, Noon Concert – Davis, CA – 2009
Oakland Lyric Opera – Oakland, CA – 2008
Music Matters: Songs Without Tunes – Davis, CA – 2007
Music Matters: Starting Over – Davis, CA – 2007
Music Matters: Classical Improv – Davis, CA – 2006
Franz Liszt Museum – Budapest, Hungary – 2006
Hungarian Cultural Center – London, U.K. – 2006
American Musicological Society – Seattle, WA – 2004
International Great Romantics Festival – Hamilton, Ontario, Canada – 2003
The Crowden School – Berkeley, CA – 2001
Aterforum Festival – Ferrara, Italy – 1995
Ferrara Musica – Ferrara, Italy – 1993
Stage:
Donna Anna, Don Giovanni – Cornell University – 2008
Marchessa d’Attavanti, Tosca – Sacramento Opera – 2008
L’Italienne, La Galantrie, Le Carnaval Masquerade – Eastman School of Music/Cornell University – 2003
Poppea, The Coronation of Poppea – San Francisco Conservatory of Music – 2003
Semele, Semele – San Francisco Conservatory of Music – 2003
Mary Turner, Of Thee I Sing – Ithaca Opera – 1996
Achille (cover), Deidamia – Manhattan School of Music – 1995
Belinda (cover), Dido and Aeneas – Caramoor Music Festival – 1994
Chamber Music and Concert:
Chamber Music Society of Sacramento – Sacramento and Davis, CA – 2008, 2012
Schumann Birthday Celebration – UC Berkeley – 2010
American Liszt Society: Liszt in Paris – San Francisco, CA – 2007
Old First Church, Liszt Birthday Gala – San Francisco, CA – 2006
Israelitish Woman, Judas Maccabeus – West Marin Music Festival, Olema, CA – 2001
Premieres:
Giancarlo Acquilanti, “La Povertà” – Stanford University – 2007
Jonathan Summers, “Frost Songs” – Davis, CA – 2004
Pierre Charvet, “L’Invitation au Voyage” – Manhattan School of Music – 1995
Pierre Charvet, “Qohelet” (New York premiere) – Manhattan School of Music – 1994
