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Music/Musicology
Seth Brodsky (2005-06)
Seth is an Assistant Professor in the music department at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Following a year in Berlin as a German Chancellor Fellow, he is completing a book titled Utopian Strain: Ambivalent Absolutes in European Music, 1961-2001, which explores four of postwar Europe’s most influential composers (Luciano Berio, György Ligeti, Helmut Lachenmann, and Wolfgang Rihm) within the context of T.W. Adorno’s writing on utopia. Related projects include articles on Rihm and the German metaphysical tradition; an article (in preparation) on Berio and the poet Paul Celan; and an examination of postwar European music’s endeavors in alternative memorial, not only to the aesthetic utopias of modernism’s past, but also to the last century’s genocides and art’s complicity therein. This work also informs Seth’s recent courses, which include an undergraduate seminar on intertextuality and influence in twentieth-century music; a graduate seminar on composing at the turn of the millennium; and an undergraduate lecture on music and melancholy. (6/25/07)
Laura Dahl (1992-93)
Pianist Laura Dahl, active as a performer both in the United States and abroad, has played in venues including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Henley Festival (England), Davies Symphony Hall, the Carmel Bach Festival, and the Tanglewood Music Festival. Dahl is a member of the music faculty at Stanford University where she teaches collaborative and solo piano, chamber music, art song interpretation, and diction. Internationally in demand as a teacher and coach, Dahl has also served on the faculty of the New National Theatre Young Artists Training Program in Tokyo, Japan. She is the founder and artistic director of the A. Jess Shenson Recital Series at Stanford University, and Music by the Mountain, a chamber music festival in northern California. Dahl was formerly the Associate Director of the San Francisco Boys Chorus and Assistant Conductor for Western Opera Theater (San Francisco Opera Center). Dahl was an invited fellow at the prestigious Tanglewood Music Center for two years and has held coaching and accompanying positions at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the New England Conservatory of Music, the Banff Academy of Singing, the Music Academy of the West, and the University of Michigan Opera Theater. Dahl set a precedent as the first musician to be named a German Chancellor’s Scholar. Her project focused on the study and performance of German Lieder. She worked under the tutelage of pianist Phillip Moll, baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and composer Aribert Reimann. http://www.stanford.edu/~fit/. (6/26/09)
Damon Thomas Lee (2002-03)
Damon is an Artistic and Scientific Associate at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, where he teaches Media Music, Film-scoring, and Max/MSP for electronic composition, live-electronic, and interactive projects. During his year as a German Chancellor Fellow, he studied Music Composition, Media Music, and Collaboration with Sandeep Bhagwati. Since completing his fellowship, Damon has been Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (ZKM), KlangRaumKrems Minoritenkirche, Krems an der Donau, and the Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich, Linz. Recent audiovisual collaborations with artist Lida Abdul have resulted in a number of exhibitions worldwide. Damon continues to write concert works for ensembles, including Germany's leading new music group, the Ensemble Modern. (3/17/08)
Brian Mathias (2007-08)
Brian finished his undergraduate work in psychology and music performance at Carnegie Mellon University in 2007. As a German Chancellor Fellow in Leipzig, Brian will work with the Neurocognition of Music group at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Science. His work will focus on the cognitive and neural processes involved in the perception of speech and music. (7/3/07)
Ryan Minor (2000-01)
Ryan is an Assistant Professor of musicology in the music
department at SUNY Stony Brook. As a German Chancellor Fellow,
Ryan researched the choral movement in nineteenth-century Germany—primarily
in Berlin, but also with archival trips to Bonn, Luebeck, Hamburg,
Leipzig, and Bremen. This research went into his dissertation, recently
completed at the University of Chicago. His current research interests
include Brahms, Wagner, nationalism, and music and politics. (6/26/09)
Michael O'Toole (2009-10)
Michael is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the social and political dimensions of popular music in contemporary Germany, and how popular music has shaped concepts of national identity and foreignness in recent German history. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Michael will be hosted by the Berlin Phonograph Archive at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. During his fellowship year, he will be researching the role that musicians and music organizations have played in the ongoing debates about national identity and cultural diversity in reunified Germany. (9/29/09)
Lizz Porter (2004-05)
Lizz Porter spent her year as a German Chancellor Fellow studying
horn performance with Ab Koster at the Hochschule für Musik
in Hamburg. Her project coupled work with the early valveless horn
and study of German musical history and culture with the goal of
forming a more educated view of early German works and the distinct
German performance style. She has a Bachelor of Music degree and
a Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music and a
Master of Music degree from Rice University. She is working
on an artist diploma at the Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg,
and working as 3./1. Horn with the Luebeck Philharmonic Orchestra.
(5/1/06)
Ivan Raykoff (1999-00)
Ivan is a professor in the Arts concentration at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts in New York. He teaches music courses and interdisciplinary arts courses as well as performing and composing as a pianist. He has co-edited a collection of essays titled "A Song for Europe: Popular Music and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest," and he is currently completing a book project titled "Dreams of Love: Representing the Romantic Pianist," which examines the popular iconography of the concert pianist in films, literature, and visual culture. Other forthcoming publications include a chapter in a new book on Robert Schumann's music as well as a chapter on the piano keyboard's relationship to the early typewriter and telegraph in a new book titled "Image, Sound, and Touch in the Nineteenth Century." As a German Chancellor Fellow, Ivan did dissertation research in Berlin's libraries and film archives, exploring the links between German and American popular culture in the early 20th century. He completed his Ph.D. in the Critical Studies and Experimental Practices program in music at the University of California, San Diego. (12/2/09)
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