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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