Tamara Levitz
Professor, Musicology

Tamara Levitz is a musicologist from Montréal, Canada who currently holds a position as Professor of Musicology at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. She has published widely on musical modernism in Germany, Cuba, Senegal, and France in the 1920s and 30s. Combining extensive archival research with acute critical interpretation, Levitz explores in her work the artistic intentions, complex motivations, sexual and gender identifications, and intricate social relations of musicians, composers, critics, ethnographers, performers, and audiences involved in historical events of musical performance.

Much of her work has focused on renowned artists, including Ferruccio Busoni, John Cage, Igor Stravinsky, and André Gide. She recently completed the monograph Modernist Mysteries: Perséphone (Oxford, 2012), in which she presents a microhistorical analysis of the premiere by Ida Rubinstein of André Gide’s and Igor Stravinsky’s melodrama Perséphone on 30 April 1934.

Levitz is currently the scholar in residence for the Bard Festival on “Stravinsky and His World,” and is editing a volume of the same name to be published by Princeton University Press to coincide with the festival in August 2013.

Mark Kligman
Professor of Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Humanities Mickey Katz Chair of Jewish Music Director of Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
Tiffany Naiman
Director of Music Industry Programs; Assistant Teaching Professor, Music Industry; Lecturer, Musicology
Holley Replogle-Wong
Lecturer in Musicology, Program Director of CMH
Thomas Hodgson
Assistant Professor of Musicology
Elizabeth Randell Upton
Associate Professor of Musicology and Humanities
Nina Eidsheim
Professor of Musicology and Humanities Founder and Director of UCLA PEER Lab
Raymond Knapp
Distinguished Professor of Musicology and Humanities Chair of Musicology Director, UCLA Center of Musical Humanities (CMH)
Robert Fink
Chair of Music Industry IDP, Professor of Musicology and Humanities

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