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Past Speaking

This list includes professional public speaking work for performing arts organizations and papers presented at academic conferences.

Symphonic/Choral Music



2016 Brahms Requiem, Island Community Chorus, Martha's Vineyard

2016 Mendelssohn St. Paul, Island Community Chorus, Martha's Vineyard

2013 Slavic Moderns, San Francisco Symphony

2013 Britten: War Requiem, San Francisco Symphony

2013 Eschenbach conducing Bruckner, Chicago Symphony

2013 Mozart & Salieri, Masterworks Chorale, Sander's Theater, Cambridge, MA

2013 Beethoven, Boston Baroque, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory

2013 Bach: B Minor Mass, Britten: Spring Symphony, Vivaldi: Gloria, Berkshire Choral Festival

2013 Carissimi: Jephte, Charpentier: Missa assumpta est Maria, Bach: Gottes Zeit, Handel: Chandos Anthem No. 8, Boston Baroque

2012 Mozart: Concetos for Two Pianos, Boston Baroque

2012 Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 4, Schreker: Die Gezeichneten, San Francisco Symphony

2012 Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden, Elgar: Falstaff, Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, Chicago Symphony

2011 Dukas: Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Prokofiev: Violin Concerto no. 2, San Francisco Symphony

2010 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2, Mendelssohn: Italian Symphony, Mozart Symphony No. 23, Chicago Symphony

2010 Haydn: Violin Concerto No. 4, Hartmann: Concerto funebre, Barber: Adagio for Strings, Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 (Turkish), Chicago Symphony

2010 Mozart: Symphony No. 33, Boston Baroque

2010 Mozart: Symphony No. 35 and Symphony No. 41, Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1

2008 Adams: Doctor Atomic Symphony, excerpts from Nixon in China & Transmigration of Souls, Pittsburgh Symphony

2008 Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, New Commissioned Work by Magnus Lindberg, San Francisco Symphony

2008 Janacek: Taras Bulba, Dvorak: Cello Concerto, Lutoslawski, San Francisco Symphony

2008 All-Mozart program, San Francisco Symphony

2007 "Pärt's Transformation of the Te Deum and the Modern Baltic Sound," "Understanding our two greatest musical prodigies: the extraordinary Mozart and Mendelssohn," "Searching for the Beginning of German Romanticism: Mozart and Mendelssohn," Chorister lectures for the Berkshire Choral Festival

2007 Haydn, Bruckner, Brahms, and Pärt: Te Deums, Mozart: Great Mass in C, Mendelssohn: Wie der Hirsch Schreit (Psalm 42), Berkshire Choral Festival

2007 Mendelssohn, Bruch, Richard Strauss, San Francisco Symphony

2007 Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2, Chen-Yi, Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, San Francisco Symphony

2007 Liszt, Dvorak, William Schuman, San Francisco Symphony

2006 All-Shostakovich Program, San Francisco Symphony, Rostropovich cond.

2006 Mozart: Requiem, Brahms: Schicksalslied & Alto Rhapsody, Berkshire Choral Festival

2006 Five lecture-recitals at the Norman Rockwell Museum's special exhibit of the works of Frederic Remington and Civil War Photography (Music of the American Civil War)

2005 Handel: Messiah, San Francisco Symphony

2005 Chorister Lecture & Pre-concert lecture, Berkshire Choral Festival

2005 Five lecture-recitals at the Norman Rockwell Museum (Music of Massachusetts Composers and Poets, from Billings to Thompson)

2005 Bruckner: Symphony No. 8, Saint-Saens:  Cello Concerto, San Francisco Symphony

2004 Debussy, Respighi: Pines of Rome, Saint-Saens, San Francisco Symphony & SFS Chorus

2004 Bernstein: Chichester Psalms, Copland: Old American Songs, Berkshire Choral Festival

2004 Mahler: Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection", San Francisco Symphony & SFS Chorus

2004 Five lecture-recitals at the Hancock Shaker Village Museum (Shaker Songs & Dances)

2004 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17,  Serenade No. 9, "Posthorn", Symphony No. 27, San Francisco Symphony

2003 Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1, Hillborg: Exquisite Corpse, Skriabin: Poem of Ecstasy, Smetana Overture to the Bartered Bride, San Francisco Symphony in Cupertino and San Francisco, CA

2003 Lunchtime Chamber Music Series, Middlesex School Summer Arts, Concord, MA

2003 Works by Schulman, Mahler, Mendelssohn, New Century Chamber Orchestra, Berkeley, San Rafael, Palo Alto, and San Francisco, CA

2003 Messiaen: Couleurs de la cité céleste, Ravel: (arr. Volkert) Duo for Violin and Cello, Boulez: Messagesquisse, Debussy: La Mer, San Francisco Symphony

2002 Baroque Christmas Music for Strings, New Century Chamber Orchestra

2002 Rautavaara: Adagio celeste, Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Sibelius: Four Legends of the Kalevala, San Francisco Symphony with Midori

2002 Works by Butterworth, Holloway, Mendelssohn, San Francisco Symphony wih Geraldine Walther

2002 Works by Mendelssohn, Schubert, Janacek, Herbert, New Century Chamber Orchestra

2002  Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, Schuman: George Washington Bridge and Concerto on Old Rounds, San Francisco Symphony

2002 Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht,  Byrd: Music for Viols, New Century Chamber Orchestra

2002 Beethoven Symphony No. 1, Martin Petite symphonie concertante, Weill: Threepenny Opera Suite, San Francisco Symphony

2002 Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat, San Francisco Symphony Chamber Music Mondays

2002 Debussy: String Quartet No. 1, San Francisco Symphony Chamber Music Mondays

2002 Dan Welcher: Mill Songs, San Francisco Symphony Chamber Music Mondays

2002 Mahler: Das Lied vion der Erde, Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony with Thomas Hampson

2002 Haydn: String Quartet, op. 74, no. 3, San Francisco Symphony Chamber Music Mondays

2001 Ravel: Un barque sur l'ocean, Chausson: Deux chansons, Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, San Francisco Symphony

2001 Skrowaczewski: Music at Night, Nielsen: Flute Concerto, San Francisco Symphony with James Galway, flute

2001 Mozart: Flute Quartet, San Francisco Symphony Chamber Music Mondays

2001 Mahler: Symphony No. 6, San Francisco Symphony

2001 Gershwin: Overture to Girl Crazy, Ellington: Orchestral Songs, Bernstein: Symphonic Dances, San Francisco Symphony

2001 Ravel: Piano Concerto in G , Britten: Prince of the Pagodas Suite, San Francisco Symphony

2001 Mozart: Symphony No. 31, Stravinsky: Violin Concerto, Benjamin: Palimpsest, Debussy: La Mer, San Francisco Symphony

2001  Stravinsky Agon, Les Noces, Perséphone, San Francisco Symphony

2000 Works by Roger Sessions, San Francisco Contemporary Chamber Players

Opera/Ballet



2017 Puccini: La Bohème, San Francisco Opera

2016 Verdi: Don Carlo, San Francisco Opera

2015 Tutino: La Ciociara/Two Women (world premiere), San Francisco Opera

2014 Puccini: Madama Butterfly, San Francisco Opera

2013 Grieg: Peer Gynt, with incidental music by Grieg, Schnittke, and Holloway, San Francisco Symphony

2013 Bernstein: West Side Story with full Broadway orchestration, San Francisco Symphony

2013 Rossini: Cenerentola, Boston Opera Collaborative

2013 Lehar: Merry Widow, FOPAC Opera, Concord, MA

2012 "Consuming Music: Parisian café culture and Puccini's La Bohème," Boston Opera Collaborative

2012 "Consuming Music: Parisian café culture and Puccini's La Bohème," FOPAC Opera, Concord, MA

2012 Tchaikovsky: Iolanta, Commonwealth Lyric Theater, Brookline, MA

2011 "Janacek's fantasy world: 1920s comics and how they inspired The Cunning Little Vixen (1923)," Boston Opera Collaborative

2010 Adamo: Little Women, Boston Opera Collaborative

2010 Beethoven: "Ah, Perfido!" Cherubini: Arias from Medée, Boston Baroque

2005 All-Bartok Program: The Wooden Prince, San Francisco Symphony

2002 Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat, San Francisco Symphony

2002 Puccini: Madama Butterfly, San Francisco Opera

2002 Verdi: Otello, San Francisco Opera

2001 Bernstein: West Side Story, San Francisco Symphony

2001 Stravinsky: Les Noces, Agon, Perséphone, San Francisco Symphony

2000 Britten: Albert Herring, San Francisco Opera Center

2000 Handel: Semele, San Francisco Opera

2000 Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride, San Francisco Opera

2000 Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress, San Francisco Opera

1999 Ravel: L’Enfant et les Sortileges, San Francisco Symphony

1998 Britten: Peter Grimes, San Francisco Opera

1997 Britten: Death in Venice, San Francisco Opera

1993 Strauss: Elektra, Chicago Lyric Opera

1987/1988  Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker, New Haven Ballet

Scholarly Papers



2016 American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University

"Marco Tutino’s La Ciociara: Composer as Librettist, Editor, and Revisionist Historian"

 

2016 Modern Languages Association, Austin

"The German Heartbeat of Dada: Music at the Cabaret Voltaire"

 

2015 The Nordic Breakthrough, Oxford, England, UK
"Trumping Tchaikovsky: Alexander Glazunov’s remarkable Raymonda"

 

2014 Theatres of World War I, St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music, Russia "The German Heartbeat of Dada:'Literature with a Gun' during World War I"

 

2014 Kozani Music Notation Conference & Music Festival, Kozani, Greece

"Dadaphone: Graphic Notation in Contemporary Music and Its Debt to Dada"

 

2014 "Bíonn dhá insint ar scéal agus dhá leagan déag ar amhrán (There are two sides to a story and twelve arrangements for a song): Reinterpreting Irish literary traditions through Contemporary Choral Music," Trinty College, Dublin

 

2014 "Graphic Scores and their Debt to Dada," Dada-Surrealism Group, Modern Languages Association, Chicago

 

2013 "What Did Women Sing? Uncovering the Original Scoring for Choral Masterworks," Festival 500: The Phenomenon of Singing, Memorial University of St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

 

2013 "Roma Roots of the Bolero", (Self-)Representations: Romani Music and Culture in Diaspora, New York University

 

2013 "Sergei Diaghilev’s New World: Manipulating French (Baroque) Taste for the Exotic in Modern Art", International Conference on the Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii

 

2012 "The Bolero in Russia", American Musicological Society, Pacific SW Chapter, Occidental College, CA

 

2012 "Diaghilev’s New World: Manipulating French (Baroque) Taste for the Exotic in Modern Art", American Musicological Society, Allegheny Chapter, Geneva College, PA

 

2011 "Diaghilev’s New World: Manipulating French Taste for the Exotic in Modern Art", Diaghilev P. S. International Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia

 

2001 "Latin American Music Courses: A Bibliography of Resources," National Meeting, Society for American Music and the Center for Black Music Research, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

 

2001 "New Archival Resources for Music Research," Archives Roundtable and Conservatories Roundtable, National Meeting, Music Library Association, New York, NY

 

2001 "Building Virtual Reference Desks"

Northern California Chapter Meeting, Music Library Association, UC-Berkeley Music Library, Berkeley, CA

 

2000 "Website Design for Arts & Humanities Archives," Professional Development Seminar: Introduction to Archives, National Meeting, American Association of Archivists, Denver, CO

 

1999 "Celebrating Poulenc’s Centenary: Works of Poulenc and Ives", Faculty Lecture/Recital, CSU-Hayward, CA

 

1998 "Lecture/Recital: Vocal Premieres by California Composers," Pacific Central Chapter, College Music Society, Ira Brilliant Beethoven Center, San Jose, CA

 

1997 "Caprice à deux: Musical Notation in the Vocal Works of Betsy Jolas," Pacific Central Chapter, College Music Society, California State University - Stanislaus, Modesto, CA

 

1997 "Fanfares in Time of War: American Musical Nationalism in the Aftermath of Pearl Harbor," National Meeting, Sonneck Society for American Music, Seattle, WA

 

1995 "Max Mathews and the Radio Baton: Electronic Musical Instruments as Teaching Tool," National Meeting, American Musical Instrument Society, Salt Lake City/Provo, UT

 

1994 "Plenary Session on Dance: Bibliography of Dance-Related Materials relevant to Music Libraries," National Meeting, Music Library Association, Kansas City, MO

 

1994 "The Harmonica Wizard: J. P. Sousa's most unusual commission," Bands Roundtable, National Meeting, Music Library Association, Kansas City, MO

 

1993 "Plenary Session on Choral Music: Nineteenth-Century Californian Composers and Choral Images of the West," National Meeting, Sonneck Society for American Music, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA

 

1992 "Lacunæ in Harmonica Research and Collections of Note," American Musical Instrument Society, Nashville, TN

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