Music History and Literature
Courses Taught
Music History: 18th and 19th Century
Symphony After Beethoven
Program Notes
Education
PhD, Stanford University
MA, University of Oregon
BM, University of the Pacific
Q&A
What is your hometown?
Fresno, CA
What is your favorite recording?
Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem, Otto Klemperer / Schwarzkopf, Fischer-Dieskau, Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus / Otto Klemperer (1961).
What is a favorite quote that you repeatedly tell students?
鈥淭his 鈥 is one of those questions that performers/composers/theorists/critics have to argue anew every few generations.鈥
What question do you wish students would ask sooner rather than later?
鈥淎re there enough English-language sources for this paper topic?鈥
What was the defining moment when you decided to pursue music as a career?
The first time I performed Dvo艡谩k's Symphony in G, as a teenage horn player.
What was a turning point in your career?
My first research sojourn in Austria.
If you weren't a musician or teacher, what do you think you would be doing now?
Working in historic preservation.
If you could play only three composers for the rest of your life, who would they be?
Mozart, Mahler, Gershwin. But let's hope it does not come to that.
From a music history perspective, what year and city are most important to you?
Vienna, 1803.
What are your academic publications?
鈥淏eyond the 鈥榁iennese Mass鈥: Thoughts on the History, Use, and Modern Understanding of the Eighteenth-Century Austro-German Orchestral Mass Repertoire.鈥 Sacred Music 141.4 (2014): 21-27.
鈥淕abriel Faur茅.鈥 In Oxford Bibliographies in Music. Ed. Bruce Gustavson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
鈥淛ohann Michael Haydn and the Orchestral Solemn Mass in Eighteenth-Century Vienna and Salzburg.鈥 Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 2013.
What is your unrealized project?
There's still hope, so I won't say.
Events
News
SFCM orchestra
SFCM's Opening Orchestra Concert Unites Departments鈥攁nd Grads
September 30, 2024
performances
The Universal Language: Ensemble from China Performs at SFCM
September 27, 2024
