Research Presentations (Refereed)
“Incubation and Integration: The American Music Theater Festival and Anthony Davis’s X.” National Meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS), Minneapolis. November 2020.
“New Music Theater and American New Music Ensembles,” Annual Meeting of the Society for American Music (SAM), Minneapolis. March 2020. [Postponed due to COVID-19]
“Incubation and Integration: The American Music Theater Festival and Anthony Davis’s X.” Music Festival Studies: Current Perspectives, Future Directions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. March 2020. [Postponed due to COVID-19]
“Assembling ‘Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble,’ 1975-86,” Minimalism Extended: The Seventh International Conference on Minimalist Music, Cardiff University, Wales. August 2019.
“Incubating American ‘Opera-Theater’: Beth Morrison Projects, Los Angeles Opera, and Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar,” SAM Annual Meeting, Kansas City. March 2018.
“Scoring the Body: Meredith Monk’s Atlas as Operatic Work,” AMS National Meeting, Rochester. November 2017.
“(Per)forming Meredith Monk’s Atlas,” Sixth International Conference on Minimalist Music, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. June 2017.
“‘Unencumbered Creativity Within the Parameters’: Bringing Meredith Monk’s Atlas to the Stage,” SAM Annual Meeting, Montreal. March 2017.
“Operatic Entrepreneurship and Iconoclasm in Steve Reich’s The Cave,” Spring Meeting, Midwest Chapter, AMS, Case Western Reserve University. April 2016.
“Steve Reich’s The Cave and the Challenges of Iconoclastic Opera,” Loewe Symposium in American Music, University of Redlands. October 2015.
“‘People Power’ and Ideologies of Exceptionalism: The Politics of Satyagraha from the Civil Rights Movement to Occupy Lincoln Center,” SAM Annual Meeting, Sacramento. March 2015.
“‘Reconciling the Family of Man’: Steve Reich’s The Cave and the Political Efficacy of Art,” AMS National Meeting, Milwaukee. November 2014.
“Sampling Testimonies: The Musico-Theatrical Aesthetics of Steve Reich’s The Cave,” Spring Meeting, Capital Chapter, AMS, Catholic University. April 2014.
“The Sonic Fusion of Art and Life in John Adams’s Doctor Atomic,” Left Coast Minimalism: Fourth International Conference on Minimalist Music, California State University, Long Beach. October 2013.
“‘Reconciling the Family of Man’: (De-)Politicizing Steve Reich’s The Cave,” South Central Graduate Music Consortium, Duke University. September 2013.
“Doctor Atomic or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sound Design,” Fall Meeting, Southeast Chapter, AMS, East Carolina University. September 2013.
“‘A Sort of Oratorio’: Dramatic Construction in John Adams’s Doctor Atomic,” SAM Annual Meeting, Little Rock. March 2013.
“De-Wagnerizing Wolf: Situating Hugo Wolf in French culture, 1903–1914,” North American Conference on 19th-Century Music, Richmond University. July 2011.
“If it ain’t Dutch, it ain’t much: Giaches de Wert and the Franco-Flemish Singers at the Imperial Court Chapel of Maximilian II,” Fall Meeting, Southeast Chapter, AMS, UNC-Chapel Hill. September 2010.
“Riding the Peace Train: Yusuf Islam’s Musical Jihad against Islamophobia,” South Central Graduate Music Consortium, Duke University. September 2010.
“New Music Theater and American New Music Ensembles,” Annual Meeting of the Society for American Music (SAM), Minneapolis. March 2020. [Postponed due to COVID-19]
“Incubation and Integration: The American Music Theater Festival and Anthony Davis’s X.” Music Festival Studies: Current Perspectives, Future Directions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. March 2020. [Postponed due to COVID-19]
“Assembling ‘Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble,’ 1975-86,” Minimalism Extended: The Seventh International Conference on Minimalist Music, Cardiff University, Wales. August 2019.
“Incubating American ‘Opera-Theater’: Beth Morrison Projects, Los Angeles Opera, and Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar,” SAM Annual Meeting, Kansas City. March 2018.
“Scoring the Body: Meredith Monk’s Atlas as Operatic Work,” AMS National Meeting, Rochester. November 2017.
“(Per)forming Meredith Monk’s Atlas,” Sixth International Conference on Minimalist Music, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. June 2017.
“‘Unencumbered Creativity Within the Parameters’: Bringing Meredith Monk’s Atlas to the Stage,” SAM Annual Meeting, Montreal. March 2017.
“Operatic Entrepreneurship and Iconoclasm in Steve Reich’s The Cave,” Spring Meeting, Midwest Chapter, AMS, Case Western Reserve University. April 2016.
“Steve Reich’s The Cave and the Challenges of Iconoclastic Opera,” Loewe Symposium in American Music, University of Redlands. October 2015.
“‘People Power’ and Ideologies of Exceptionalism: The Politics of Satyagraha from the Civil Rights Movement to Occupy Lincoln Center,” SAM Annual Meeting, Sacramento. March 2015.
“‘Reconciling the Family of Man’: Steve Reich’s The Cave and the Political Efficacy of Art,” AMS National Meeting, Milwaukee. November 2014.
“Sampling Testimonies: The Musico-Theatrical Aesthetics of Steve Reich’s The Cave,” Spring Meeting, Capital Chapter, AMS, Catholic University. April 2014.
“The Sonic Fusion of Art and Life in John Adams’s Doctor Atomic,” Left Coast Minimalism: Fourth International Conference on Minimalist Music, California State University, Long Beach. October 2013.
“‘Reconciling the Family of Man’: (De-)Politicizing Steve Reich’s The Cave,” South Central Graduate Music Consortium, Duke University. September 2013.
“Doctor Atomic or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sound Design,” Fall Meeting, Southeast Chapter, AMS, East Carolina University. September 2013.
“‘A Sort of Oratorio’: Dramatic Construction in John Adams’s Doctor Atomic,” SAM Annual Meeting, Little Rock. March 2013.
“De-Wagnerizing Wolf: Situating Hugo Wolf in French culture, 1903–1914,” North American Conference on 19th-Century Music, Richmond University. July 2011.
“If it ain’t Dutch, it ain’t much: Giaches de Wert and the Franco-Flemish Singers at the Imperial Court Chapel of Maximilian II,” Fall Meeting, Southeast Chapter, AMS, UNC-Chapel Hill. September 2010.
“Riding the Peace Train: Yusuf Islam’s Musical Jihad against Islamophobia,” South Central Graduate Music Consortium, Duke University. September 2010.
Public Lectures and Talks (Non-Refereed)
"Musical Modernist Tour and Instrument Petting Zoo," Way Public Library. December 2019. (Program for children and families.)
"(Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know About Video Game Music," Way Public Library. October 2019.
“From the Ring to Star Wars: Leitmotif as Compositional Tool,” Toledo Symphony music appreciation class. June 2019.
Upbeat Live pre-concert lecture on Meredith Monk’s Atlas, Los Angeles Philharmonic. June 2019.
“Toledo SymphonyLab” (radio podcast) hosted by Brad Cresswell, guest discussant, WGTE Public Media, Toledo, OH. October 2018.
“The Rough Draft Diaries” (radio podcast) hosted by Haley Taylor, guest interviewee, WGTE Public Media. October 2018.
“Music You Can Scream To: The Sounds of Scary Movies,” Lecture, Way Public Library, Perrysburg, OH. October 2018.
“Making Russia Exotic: Igor Stravinsky’s Ballets,” Toledo Symphony music appreciation class. June 2018.
“Incubating American ‘Opera-Theater’ in the New Millennium,” Faculty Scholar Series, College of Musical Arts, BGSU. April 2018.
Panelist and Organizer, “New Music(ology) Gathering II: A Panel of Scholarly Perspectives on Supporting New Music,” New Music Gathering, BGSU. May 2017.
“Opera 101,” Lecture-recital. Way Public Library, Perrysburg, OH. February 2017.
“Madness, Music Theater, and Ophelia Forever,” Pre-opera lecture, College of Musical Arts, BGSU. March 2016.
“Operatic Entrepreneurship and Iconoclasm in Steve Reich’s The Cave,” Faculty Scholar Series, College of Musical Arts, BGSU. February 2016.
Panelist, “New Music(ology) Gathering: Scholarly Perspectives on American New Music Since 1960,” New Music Gathering, Peabody Conservatory. January 2016.
“Les enfants terribles and the Operas of Philip Glass,” Governor’s Club Opera Guild, Raleigh, NC. January 2012.
"(Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know About Video Game Music," Way Public Library. October 2019.
“From the Ring to Star Wars: Leitmotif as Compositional Tool,” Toledo Symphony music appreciation class. June 2019.
Upbeat Live pre-concert lecture on Meredith Monk’s Atlas, Los Angeles Philharmonic. June 2019.
“Toledo SymphonyLab” (radio podcast) hosted by Brad Cresswell, guest discussant, WGTE Public Media, Toledo, OH. October 2018.
“The Rough Draft Diaries” (radio podcast) hosted by Haley Taylor, guest interviewee, WGTE Public Media. October 2018.
“Music You Can Scream To: The Sounds of Scary Movies,” Lecture, Way Public Library, Perrysburg, OH. October 2018.
“Making Russia Exotic: Igor Stravinsky’s Ballets,” Toledo Symphony music appreciation class. June 2018.
“Incubating American ‘Opera-Theater’ in the New Millennium,” Faculty Scholar Series, College of Musical Arts, BGSU. April 2018.
Panelist and Organizer, “New Music(ology) Gathering II: A Panel of Scholarly Perspectives on Supporting New Music,” New Music Gathering, BGSU. May 2017.
“Opera 101,” Lecture-recital. Way Public Library, Perrysburg, OH. February 2017.
“Madness, Music Theater, and Ophelia Forever,” Pre-opera lecture, College of Musical Arts, BGSU. March 2016.
“Operatic Entrepreneurship and Iconoclasm in Steve Reich’s The Cave,” Faculty Scholar Series, College of Musical Arts, BGSU. February 2016.
Panelist, “New Music(ology) Gathering: Scholarly Perspectives on American New Music Since 1960,” New Music Gathering, Peabody Conservatory. January 2016.
“Les enfants terribles and the Operas of Philip Glass,” Governor’s Club Opera Guild, Raleigh, NC. January 2012.