Public Musicology
Latest Past Events
Invited Lecturer: Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival (July 22)
Women's University Club, Seattle 1105 Sixth Avenue, SeattleMy first time being part of the Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival, which is a real treat. I love the city and can’t wait to meet the lovely community at SCMS! Find out more »
Invited Speaker: Jane Austen Society of North America
Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens 1151 Oxford Rd, San MarinoOne of the many wonderful things about being a "public musicologist" is that you never know when an audience member might surprise you with an unexpected invitation: in this case, Find out more »
Los Angeles Philharmonic: “Invited Rehearsal” Lecturer
BP Hall at Walt Disney Concert HallAnother great opportunity to work with young musicians and talk with them about music history! The LA Phil’s Invited Rehearsal program is open to school or extra-curricular instrumental music ensembles—jazz, Find out more »
Host/Narrator: LA Phil / Symphonies for Schools (Mar 26)
Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los AngelesMy friends at the Education Department of the LA Phil told me they were looking for someone with a Ms. Frizzle vibe to host the Symphonies for Schools educational concerts. Find out more »
Host/Narrator: LA Phil / Symphonies for Schools (Mar 25)
Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los AngelesMy friends at the Education Department of the LA Phil told me they were looking for someone with a Ms. Frizzle vibe to host the Symphonies for Schools educational concerts. Find out more »
Host/Narrator: LA Phil / Symphonies for Youth (Mar 22)
Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los AngelesA new and very welcome adventure with the LA Phil: I'm hosting the Symphonies for Youth concerts! I come to this new collaboration with special joy, not only because I Find out more »
Host/Narrator: LA Phil / Symphonies for Youth (Mar 15)
Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los AngelesA new and very welcome adventure with the LA Phil: I'm hosting the Symphonies for Youth concerts! I come to this new collaboration with special joy, not only because I Find out more »
Los Angeles Philharmonic: “Invited Rehearsal” Lecturer
BP Hall at Walt Disney Concert HallAnother great opportunity to work with young musicians and talk with them about music history! The LA Phil’s Invited Rehearsal program is open to school or extra-curricular instrumental music ensembles—jazz, Find out more »
LA Phil: Mahler Grooves Listening Party / Moderator
Paramour Estate 1923 Micheltorena St, Los AngelesA once-in-a-lifetime events! I have the honor of moderating this listening party with three distinguished—and Mahler-loving—panelists: film director Todd Field (Tár), music supervisor Lauren Mikus (Only Murders in the Building), and Find out more »
Pre-performance Lecture: LA Opera’s “Romeo and Juliet”
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 135 North Grand Avenue, Los AngelesAh, star-cross’d lovers! I’ll be giving the pre-performance talk for LA Opera‘s production of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. I’ll delve into the particular history and aesthetic traditions of French opera, I’ll spotlight some Find out more »
Opera for Educators/LA Opera Connects: Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette”
ZoomEver notice that French-language opera doesn't get the same time in the programming spotlight as Italian-language opera? No fair! I will dive into the rich history of French opera and Find out more »
Opera League of Los Angeles: Seminar on “La Bohème,” “Tosca” and “Madama Butterfly” (Puccini100 celebration)
I continue my seminar series with for the Opera League of Los Angeles celebrating the centennial of Puccini's death. This second lecture looks at Puccini's "triple crown" of popular works: Find out more »
Invited Panelist on Public Musicology: “Music in Dialogue” Conference at UCLA
Schoenberg Music Building 445 Charles E Young Dr E, Los AngelesMy life as a teacher and scholar has been wonderfully enriched over the past 2+ years as a Lecturer in Musicology at UCLA. Case in point? The "Music in Dialogue" Find out more »
Book presentation: “Understanding the Women of Mozart’s Operas”
ZoomThe Barrington Area Library invited me to speak about my book, Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas (Univ. of Calif. Press, 2007, 2021), a critical re-evaluating source materials as well as Find out more »
Narrating “Concerts for Fifth Grade” / Philharmonic Society of Orange County
Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall 600 Town Center Drive, Costa MesaThe Philharmonic Society of Orange County presents their Concerts for Fifth Grade, starring the Orange County Youth Symphony led by Music Director Johannes Müller Stosch. And I have the honor Find out more »
Laguna Beach Live! Listening to New (Classical) Music (KBM cancelled due to illness)
Woman's Club of Laguna Beach 286 St, Ann's Drive, Laguna BeachPresented by Laguna Beach Live! and the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, the evening is an exciting introduction for the 2024 Laguna Beach Music Festival which will feature esteemed violinist Find out more »
Seminar Lecture: Santa Monica-Westside Philharmonic Committee
I will be lecturing to the Santa Monica-Westside Philharmonic Committee, and Affiliated Committee. My subject, appropriately for members of this volunteer group that supports the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is the Find out more »
Opera for Educators: The Barber of Seville
ZoomLove sharing the multifaceted world of opera with K-12 teachers and opera lovers! For this "Opera for Educators" seminar, I will be discussing Rossini's perfect "recipe" for comic opera, the Find out more »
Narrating “Concerts for Fifth Grade” / Philharmonic Society of Orange County
Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall 600 Town Center Drive, Costa MesaThe Philharmonic Society of Orange County presents their Concerts for Fifth Grade, starring the Orange County Youth Symphony led by Music Director Johannes Müller Stosch. And moi? I have the Find out more »
Pre-Concert Lecture / Israel Philharmonic Concert
Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall 600 Town Center Drive, Costa MesaThe Israel Philharmonic makes its first Orange County appearance in 14 years under the baton of its new Music Director Lahav Shani with an all-Prokofiev program, including music from the Find out more »
LA Phil / Salonen, Strauss + 2 Premieres
Disney Hall 111 S Grand Avenue, Los AngelesJoin Dr. Kristi Brown-Montesano for UpBeat Live to explore this Esa-Pekka Salonen-led program featuring two exciting premieres. Salonen’s own Fog (a tribute to Frank Gehry) takes as inspiration the Bach Find out more »
Free LAO Zoom Class / Rossini & Wagner
ZoomThis Week's Topic - A Tale of Two Opera Composers We will explore the careers of Rossini and Wagner up to 1850 in the context of European opera cultures—French, German, Find out more »
News / Mozart on TV?
Reimaging Wolfgang's life through a TV entertainment lens? Could be interesting. I've been asked to participate as a music history Special Advisor on an TV project aimed at reimagine Mozart's Find out more »
Prism V / Bach, Webern, Beethoven – Danish String Quartet
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall @ The Conrad 7600 Fay Ave, La JollaThe Danish String Quartet, one of the leading quartets of their generation, continues their three-year La Jolla Music Society residency with five concerts celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. Find out more »
Prism IV / Bach, Mendelssohn, Beethoven – Danish String Quartet
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall @ The Conrad 7600 Fay Ave, La JollaThe Danish String Quartet, one of the leading quartets of their generation, continues their three-year La Jolla Music Society residency with five concerts celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. Find out more »
Le Salon de Musiques / Brahms & Beethoven
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion - 5th Floor Banquet RoomLe Salon de Musiques - Concert & La Conversation. A regular at Salon, public musicologist Dr. Kristi Brown-Montesano provides live program notes. At the concert's end, she moderates a conversation Find out more »
LA Phil / Double Mass Program
BP Hall at Walt Disney Concert HallUpBeat Live with Dr. Kristi Brown-Montesano. For listeners used to the brawny drama of Beethoven’s Fifth and the epic vision of his Missa solemnis, the composer’s Mass in C may Find out more »
Mason House Concert / The Lyris Quartet
This concert features The Lyris Quartet performing works by Haydn, Johnson, Mason, Beethoven. Dr. Kristi Brown Montesano provides the live program notes, and leads an informal conversation between the audience and artists. About Find out more »