Join the Salon community for an afternoon of music and conversation, including champagne and a high-tea buffet. I introduce the concert and moderate the Q & A with the artists. The program highlights composers from the European Northwest: Grieg (Norway), Sibelius (Finland), and Bridge (England).

Showcasing the brilliance of female musicians and music scholars from the LA area and beyond, MSMU’s Women in Music Festival celebrates the diversity of MSMU students and highlights the power of music as a vehicle for positive social change through a rich program of concerts and presentations. I will participate in the opening panel, “Music, Women, Diversity,” and will share my work on the subject of women and opera during the 3:30-4:10 session. Festival-goers must register online to attend daytime…

Join the Salon community for an afternoon of music and conversation, including champagne and a high-tea buffet. I introduce the concert and moderate the Q & A with the artists. The program highlights composers—Franck, Saint-Saëns, Chausson—active in Paris during the late 19th century.

Organized by the Riedenschneider Bach Institute, this conference focuses on any topic relating to Bach and music for film, television, video games, commercials, or any other screen media. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the special issues of BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute. My paper investigates the origins of post-WWII associations of Bach's music with the fictional  "technological" genius/madman, looking particularly at the 1974 film thriller, The Terminal Man in relation to Glenn Gould's score for Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

Lecture on the Orpheus myth and the history of opera as part of LA Opera's professional-development program for LAUSD educators.

A wonderful chamber-music series in the heart of downtown. The Salon brings performing artists and audience close together for an afternoon of music, champagne, and conversation. Includes an introduction to the program and a Q&A with the musicians.

I will be giving the concert introduction, exploring the genre of the piano trio, specifically Beethoven's "Archduke" Trio and Shostakovich's Trio No. 1. The program features outstanding Los Angeles-based performing artists, Gloria Cheng (piano), Sarah Thornblade (violin), and Cecilia Tsan (cello).

Pre-concert lecture for an evening of outstanding new works led by Principal Guest Conductor Susanna Mälkki and featuring the LA Phil New Music Group.

Preconcert lecture for an exciting evening of old and new: Brahms’s First Symphony and an early standout work, Fireworks, by Stravinsky paired with a new commission by LA Phil Principal Timpanist Joseph Pereira, Threshold.