James Revell Carr, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology and director of the John Jacob Niles Center for American music, studies the importance of travel and commerce in the development of hybrid music and dance cultures. His major interests include sea chanteys, Anglo-American balladry, Hawaiian […]
Pallas Catenella is a PhD candidate in musicology at the Eastman School of Music specializing in maritime music and nineteenth-century operatic technologies. Her master’s thesis, which examined the social and historical impacts of nautical preservation on the music of deepwater sailing culture, was supported by […]
Desiree Overree grew up in Texas and participated in the same contests and concerts as the students you see on stage. She attained her Bachelor of Music Education degree with Highest Honors at Sam Houston State University and now teaches for Katy ISD. Under her […]
Matthew D. Morrison, a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, is an Assistant Professor in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Matthew holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from Columbia University, an M.A. in Musicology from The […]
Ashleigh Gordon is co-founder, Artistic/Executive Director and violist of Castle of our Skins, a Boston-based concert and educational series devoted to celebrating Black Artistry through music. In recognition of her work, she has presented at IDEAS UMass Boston Conference and 180 Degrees Festival in Bulgaria; has […]
Jasmine Chen is a Grammy-nominated audio engineer and vocal producer who works in Music and Film. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, she began interning at Forecast Recordings while working at IO Music Academy as IO’s Partnerships & Studio Manager. She also freelanced […]
R. Larry Todd is Arts & Sciences Professor at Duke University. His books include Mendelssohn: A Life in Music (Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Sein Leben, seine Musik), “likely to be the standard biography for a long time to come” (New York Review of Books), and Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn, […]
Katharina Uhde, DMA, PhD, is Associate Professor of Music at Valparaiso University. She is the author of The Music of Joseph Joachim (Boydell & Brewer, 2018). Her articles on Joseph Joachim have appeared in journals including Nineteenth-Century Music Review, and The Musical Times, and The Musical Quarterly. Uhde has written […]
Adolfo Estrada is an Assistant Professor in the School of Music and Director of Latin Music Studies at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. His research focuses on historical and contemporary mariachi performance practice. Utilizing Victor Turner’s notion of communitas, his dissertation, “Ritual and […]
Mariachi Nueva Generación (MNG) became a class at Texas State University in the fall of 1997. MNG is dedicated to the study and performance of all genres associated with mariachi, including, among others, the son, the huapango, the bolero, and the polka. Since its creation, […]