Current Musicology StudentsAnthony LaLenaSTUDENT PROFILE Anthony LaLena holds a B.M. from The State University of New York at Fredonia, an M.M. from the Manhattan School of Music, and a DMA from the Eastman School of Music in classical guitar performance with a minor in historical performance practice. His research explores the intersections of modernist music…
Current Musicology StudentsNick AndersonSTUDENT PROFILE Nick Anderson is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at the Eastman School of Music. He holds a B.S. in Astronomy/Physics and a B.A. in Music from the University of Virginia. His dissertation explores musical performance in anime and its role in constituting anime’s transmedial worlds. Recent work on Studio Ghibli…
Current Musicology StudentsSheridan ZahlSTUDENT PROFILE Sheridan Zahl (he/him) is a PhD candidate in historical musicology whose research interests are focused on the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, subjectivity, ethico-aesthetics, nature, and music. Combining Deleuze/Guattari’s understandings of subjectivity with their contentions of what art does, his work explores the potentialities of modern and contemporary…
Current Musicology StudentsLauren GangerSTUDENT PROFILE Lauren is a PhD candidate in musicology. Her dissertation, “The Harmony of the Separate Spheres: British Nationalism and Gender Formation in Nineteenth-Century Domestic Music,” comprises a series of case studies of British figures who participated in distinctly British styles of composition, music criticism, and amateur and professional performance in the…
Current Musicology StudentsBethany BrinsonSTUDENT PROFILE Bethany Brinson is a Ph.D. candidate and instructor in musicology at the Eastman School of Music. Her research interest is sound art installation (immersive, site-specific artistic constructions with sonic components), particularly the motivations of 1970-‘80s artist-composers and audiences as well as current sound art trends. Her continuing research encompasses soundscape…
Current Musicology StudentsPaul David FloodSTUDENT PROFILE Paul David Flood (he/him) is a musicologist studying migration and globalization, with a specialization in contemporary European popular music, cultural history, and politics. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology at the Eastman School of Music. His dissertation, titled “‘United By Music’: Europeanism, Migration, and Belonging through the…
Current Musicology StudentsLauren BerlinSTUDENT PROFILE Lauren Berlin (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology whose primary research explores the intersections of television music, broadcasting culture, and transnational circulation. Her dissertation examines how hosts, networks, musicians, and audiences used TV musical variety shows from 1948–1965 as a site for the negotiation of postwar American identity. She…
Piano Accompanying Recent Graduate and MusicologyHannah HarnestPiano Accompanying and Musicology German-American pianist Hannah Harnest has concertized, amongst others, at the Herkules Hall (Munich), Wigmore Hall (London), Center for Jewish History and National Sawdust (New York), Harris Concert Hall (Aspen), and the Richard B. Fisher Center at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson). She previously attended Songfest Los Angeles…
