Elaine Fitz Gibbon & Leo Sarbanes, co-organizers
Elaine Fitz Gibbon is a doctoral candidate in Historical Musicology. She received her MA in German Studies from Princeton University, her BA in Musicology and German Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and she holds a Diploma of Advanced Studies in music journalism from the Musik Akademie Basel. Publications of her scholarly work and translations have appeared in The Opera Quarterly and Current Musicology; with Princeton University Press and Routledge; and are forthcoming in The Opera Quarterly, the Mitteilungen of the Paul Sacher Foundation, and the Journal of the American Musicological Society. Her dissertation explores the emergence of the genre of “instrumental theater” in the late 1950s through today from the perspective of transatlantic diaspora and migration, with a focus on the Jewish Argentine and German composer-artist couple Mauricio Kagel and Ursula Burghardt.
Leo Sarbanes is a doctoral candidate in Historical Musicology. He received a BA in Music from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020. His research focuses mostly on U.S. classical music institutions (especially orchestras) and how they attempt to serve various local and national interests. His dissertation analyzes how American orchestras have intersected with their local communities since the early twentieth century, with a focus on Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Detroit. He is also interested in the memory work of Jewish musics including klezmer and Sephardic song; concert listening, music education, and the boundaries of the musical “canon”; and video game music. He is the conductor of the Student Center Orchestra at Harvard Griffin GSAS and is a devoted oboist.
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