After graduating in May 2013 with her PhD in Musicology, Angela Mace Christian took up her post as Assistant Professor of Music History at Colorado State University. In October 2013, she presented her paper "Negotiating Private and Public Personas in the Sonntagsmusiken of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel" at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in Denver, Colorado, which she co-organized. The first chapter of Mace Christian's dissertation, on Fanny Mendelssohn's contributions to Felix Mendelssohn's Opp. 8 and 9, is currently under contract for the volume Women and the Nineteenth-Century Lied, edited by Aisling Kenney and Susan Wollenberg (Ashgate Press).
Ryan Malone (Ph.D. 2006) has accepted a tenure track position as Assistant Professor of Music at Bucknell University, where he also directs the Bucknell Concert Chorale. Malone is currently preparing a critical edition of the complete organ works of Charles Vardell and working with chant scholar Bruce Ford to prepare an English Plainchant Vesperal, a volume that points English texts of the psalms and chants sung at vespers to Gregorian psalm tones and melodies.
Dan Ruccia's (Ph.D. 2013) piece Spork By Gnat for brass quintet will be premiered by the Boylan Bridge Brass (featuring Duke trumpet instructor Don Eagle and members of the North Carolina Symphony) on February 16 at 3pm at the Weymouth Center in Southern Pines.
Dr. Ken Shifrin (Class of 1974) was President of the Wind Symphony while a student at Duke. A native of Washington, DC, he earned a Ph.D. in Musicology from Oxford University and is Principal Trombone (former) of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (England). From 2000-2004, he was a Research Scholar at the Czech Academy of Science. View Dr. Shifrin's profile.
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