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Linda Phyllis AusternAssociate Professor of Music, Northwestern University School of Music. Specialist in renaissance and baroque musical-cultural relations, gender and feminist theory, music as related to early history of science. Recipient of major fellowships and research grants, including American Council of Learned Societies, British Academy, Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, and National Endowment for the Humanities. Author, Music in English Children's Drama of the Later Renaissance (Gordon and Breach, 1992), Music in English Life and Thought 1550-1650 (forthcoming). Author of numerous articles and reviews in books and journals such as the Renaissance Quarterly, among others.  Linda Phyllis Austern Books
Alexander BlachlyProfessor and Director of Choral Music, Department of Music, University of Notre Dame. Was the 1992 recipient of the Noah Greenberg Award given by the American Musicological Society to stimulate historically aware performances and the study of historical performing practices. Has been active in early music as both performer and scholar for the past 25 years. He is the founder-director of the internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble Pomerium. Mr. Blachly directs the University of Notre Dame Chorale and Chamber Orchestra, co-directs with Calvin M. Bower the Schola Musicorum of Notre Dame, and hosts a three-hour classical-music radio show each Wednesday morning on the University's classical-music radio station, WSND 88.9 FM. Calvin BowerProfessor of Musicology, Department of Music, University of Notre Dame. Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Medieval Institute. Has directed choral ensembles specializing in medieval chant and early polyphony for over thirty years. Has specialized in the music and poetry of the early medieval sequence and the early rhymed office. In recent years, has focused much of his research on the intersection of theory, practice, and medieval descriptions of musical performances. Along with Alexander Blachly, Bower is a co-founder and co-director of the Schola Musicorum at the University of Notre Dame. Principal publications include: translation and commentary on Boethius's De institutione musica; editor (with Michael Bernhard) of Latin commentary on Boethius's musical treatise; contributor to the Lexicon musicum Latinum. 
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Thomas ChristensenThomas Christensen, Professor of Music, Department of Music, University of Chicago, is a theorist and historian of music theory with special interests in 18th-century intellectual history, problems in tonal theory, historiography, and aesthetics. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment; most recently he has edited the Cambridge History of Western Music Theory (Cambridge, 2002). Professor Christensen served as President of the Society for Music Theory (1999-2001), and is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. Ph.D., Yale, 1985; at Chicago since 1999. Thomas Christensen Books
Drew Edward DaviesLecturer, Musicology, Northwestern University School of Music. Specialist in 17th- and 18th-century musics of Latin America and Iberia. Articles and reviews published in the Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia, Eighteenth-Century Music, and The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, an essay collection forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Editor of cathedral repertoire from Durango, Mexico. Recent presenter at academic conferences in the USA, UK, Mexico, Spain, and Japan. Regional coordinator for the Musicat seminar at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Research interests include Spanish colonial arts and culture, 1521-1821; medieval music; post-Tridentine liturgical polyphony; twentieth-century English art song. Recipient of an Andrew Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and numerous grants for research in Mexico. Martha FeldmanMartha Feldman, Professor of Music, Department of Music, University of Chicago, is a music historian specializing in 16th-century madrigals and literature, Venetian studies, courtesan cultures, 18th-century opera, Mozart, and Elizabethan music and poetry. Theoretical interests include cultural history, historiography, and cultures of the sensorium. Professor Feldman's City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice (Berkeley, 1995) earned the Bainton Prize. Her current research involves analysis of kingship, carnival, and ritual in opera seria. She serves as general editor for the Routledge Press book series in Critical and Cultural Musicology. In 2001 she was awarded the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1987; at Chicago since 1991. Martha Feldman Books
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Mary FrandsenAssistant Professor of Music, Department of Music, University of Notre Dame. 2000-03 Chair, American Heinrich Schütz Society. Member of the Board of Directors, Society for Seventeenth-Century Music. Her research interests include: music of the 17th century, sacred concerto and motet, musical patronage, music and liturgy, and rhetoric and music. Principal publications include: Allies in the Cause of Italian Music: Schütz, Prince Johann Georg II and Musical Politics in Dresden; Albrici, Peranda und die Ursprünge der Concerto-Aria-Kantate in Dresden; entries for Vincenzo Albrici, Bartolomeo Albrici, and Marco Giuseppe Peranda for the revised edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (forthcoming). Anne Harrington HeiderAssociate Professor of Choral Music and Director of Choral Ensembles, Roosevelt University - Chicago College of Performing Arts. Former Artistic Director of Bella Voce. Heider's publications include critical editions of 16th-century French psalm motets by Claude Le Jeune (A-R Editions 1989, 1995); octavos of short works by Goudimel and Schütz (GIA); and most recently, a chapter on performance practices in 17th-century choral music in The Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music (Schirmer Books 1997). Her research in early music has been supported by the Newberry Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Roosevelt University.
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Robert KendrickRobert Kendrick, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Music, Department of Music, University of Chicago, is a music historian specializing in music of early modern Europe and its intersections with religion, politics, gender, urban culture, and fine arts. He is author of Celestial Sirens: Nuns and Music in Early Modern Milan (1996, Oxford) and The Sounds of Milan, 1585-1650 (forthcoming, Oxford). Professor Kendrick has held fellowships at the Harvard University Society of Fellows (1993-96) and at the National Humanities Center (1998). Ph.D., New York University; 1993; at Chicago since 1997. Robert Kendrick Books
Anne Walters RobertsonAnne Walters Robertson, Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Music, Department of Music, University of Chicago, is a music historian with a special interest in French medieval liturgical music, ceremony, and architecture; Guillaume de Machaut and the Ars Nova; music and mysticism; and 20th-century French music. Her books include The Service Books of the Royal Abbey of St. Denis: Images of Ritual and Music in the Middle Ages (Oxford, 1991), which earned the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America, and Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in his Musical Works (Cambridge, 2002), which won the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society. Honors also include the Alfred Einstein Award of the AMS and the Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize of the Medieval Academy. Ph.D., Yale, 1984; at Chicago since 1984. Anne Walters Robertson Books
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