About Me
My academic background in musicology has provided me a thorough understanding of publishing in the humanities.
I currently teach Analysis of Medieval and Renaissance Music to musicology students at the Sorbonne.
As a musicologist, I specialize in early 16th-century Franco-Flemish Polyphony, the manuscripts that transmit this repertoire, and the people and cultures that produced and benefited from it.
I consider in particular anonymous masses, the performance practice of this repertoire, questions of authorship and anonymity, and the intricate relationships between patron, composer, and scribe.
I have spoken at international conferences and published on these topics in peer-reviewed journals such as Early Music, the Journal of the Alamire Foundation, and the Revue belge de musicologie.
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I completed my PhD in musicology in 2010 at the University of Maryland under the supervision of Barbara Haggh-Huglo. I have taught musicology at the University of Delaware, the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and the Sorbonne, and I have held management positions at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. From 2012-2016 I was a post-doctoral fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) at the KU Leuven and the Alamire Foundation.
Grants from the Fulbright Association, the Belgian-American Educational Foundation, and a Chateaubriand Fellowship, with affiliations with the Université libre de Bruxelles, the Bibliothèque royal de Belgique, and the CESR (Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance), allowed me to conduct research on primary sources in European libraries and archives.
Fellowships and Awards
2012-2016 – FWO — Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen, Post-Doctoral Fellowship
2008-2009 – Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship, University of Maryland
2008-2009 – Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, University of Maryland (Honorary)
2007-2008 – Bourse Chateaubriand, affiliation with Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, France
2007 – Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Award, University of Maryland
2005-2006 – BAEF — Belgian American Educational Foundation — Fellowship, affiliation with the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique and the ULB (Université libre de Bruxelles), Brussels, Belgium
2005-2006 – Fulbright, affiliation with the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique and the ULB (Université libre de Bruxelles), Brussels, Belgium
Education
PhD, Musicology, University of Maryland, 2010
“Anonymous Masses in the Alamire Manuscripts: Toward a New Understanding of a Repertoire, an Atelier, and a Renaissance Court,” advised by Barbara Haggh-Huglo
MA, Musicology, University of Maryland, 2001
“Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat and the Problem of Objective Interpretation,” advised by Richard King
BA, Trumpet Performance, University of Maryland, 1999, with Chris Gekker