Biography
As a cultural/social music researcher and pedagogue, I place music in dialogue with other fields in the humanities and social sciences because this approach generates holistic scholarship and pedagogy and enhances a diverse university community.
The range of my experience in higher education includes teaching diverse music courses at UCLA, Scripps College, Cambridge Centre for International Research (UK), New England Conservatory of Music, and UC Riverside.
As an emerging respected scholar from Venezuela and the U.S., my research articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals and reviews such as Journal of the Society for American Music, Current Musicology, Latin American Music Review, Diagonal: An Ibero-American Music Review, Revista Musical Chilena, Músicaenclave, Harvard Review of Latin America, Tempo, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, and Resonancias.
My current book project, Modernism to Avant-Garde: Latin American Art Music at Tanglewood (1940–2020) examines the musical and cultural contributions of modern Latin American music to the Berkshire Music Center of the Tanglewood Music Festival. I also have a forthcoming chapter, “Bernstein and Latin America,” in the Bernstein in Context volume (Cambridge University Press), invited by the editor Elizabeth A. Wells.
In recognition of my holistic work (scholar, pedagogue, performer, and public service), I was awarded a Future of Music Faculty Fellowship at Cleveland Institute of Music (2022-23)
Academic History
2021 University of California, Riverside, PhD.
2012 Brandeis University, MA
2008 New England Conservatory of Music, MM.
2002 Hochschule für Musik Detmold Abteilung Münster, Germany, BM.
1998 Universidad Central University de Venezuela, Caracas, BA.
Selected Research and Publications
2022 Max Lifchitz: A Transmodern Composer in American Music? Journal of the Society for American Music16/4.
2022 Reescritura, memoria y emociones: ¿Existe una crónica musical contemporánea del continente americano en la música de Miguel del Águila? Diagonal: An Ibero-American Music Review 7/1.
2018 Ricardo Lorenz: A Post-Colonial/Modern Latin(/o) American Composer.Current Musicology103.
2017 Tertulia con Paul Desenne. Revista Musical Chilena 71/228.
2015 Rupturas con las tradiciones musicales de la modernidad a través del mestizaje y lo real maravilloso: Una conversación con el compositor Paul Desenne. Latin American Music Review/Revista de Música Latino Americana 36/1
2014 Monumenta Vol. I. La Música Colonial Venezolana, CD by Collegium Musicum ‘Fernando Silva-Morvan’ and Camerata Barroca de Caracas. Nineteenth-Century Music Review 11/1.
2013 Jaguar Songs, CD by Nancy Green. Tempo 67/266.
2013 Clara Rodríguez Plays the Music of Teresa Carreño, CD by Clara Rodríguez. Nineteenth Century Music Review10/1.
The Power of Music: Venezuelan Seeds in Boston. ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America 8/1.
Selected Performances
2023 Schoenberg Hall, UCLA, CA.
2020 The Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA.
2019 North/South Consonance Concert Series, New York City.
2016-20 Riverside Arts Museum, Riverside, CA.
2016 King’s Chapel, Boston.
2014-15 Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.
2014 Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts, Waltham, MA.
2011 Centro Cultural Chacao, Caracas, Venezuela.
2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA.
Selected Presentations
2023 Transculturality in Latin American Art Music. Cleveland Institute of Music.
2023 Música de concierto moderna y avantgarde de América Latina: un diálogo intercultural. Universidad de la Rioja, Spain
2022 Leonard Bernstein and Latin America. American Musicological Society, Pacific Southwest Chapter, Occidental College.
2022 Max Lifchitz: A Transmodern Composer in (Latin/x) American Music? Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco.
2021 Rewriting, Memory, and Emotion: Is There a Latin American Contemporary Musical Chronicle in Miguel del Águila’s Music? American Musicological Society, Northern California and Pacific Southwest Chapters (Virtual Meeting).
2019 Contesting Dictatorship: Music in the Venezuelan Protests of 2017. At symposium “Latinoamérica en perspectiva: Representación, narrativas y modos de vida.” Harvard University
Awards and Honors
- 2023 UCLA Center for the Advancement of Teaching (Mini-Grant)
- 2022/3 The Future of Music Faculty Fellowship
- 2022/3 American Musicological Society’s Sustainable Mentorship Program
- 2022 UC Libraries Publication Fund (open access)
- 2021 Second Prize at the Otto Mayer-Serra Award for Music Research
- 2021 Best Entrepreneurial Project at Innova’R, University of California, Riverside.
- 2019 Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant, Center for Ideas and Society (UC Riverside)
- 2017-21 Gluck Fellowship, University of California, Riverside
- 2016 Second Prize at the Otto Mayer-Serra Award for Music Research
- 2016 Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship Award, University of California, Riverside
- 2016 Latin Music Research and Preservation Grants by the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation
- 2014 Honorable Mention at the Otto Mayer-Serra Award for Music Research
- 2012 Outstanding Research and Proposal Project at Brandeis University
- 2011 Jane’s Travel Grant at Brandeis University for Research at the Library of Congress
- 2008 Commencement Speaker, New England Conservatory of Music
- 2004 Summer Academy of the Mozarteum University for Music and Arts, Salzburg, Austria
- 1998 Commencement Speaker, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas