Stephen Downes is Professor and Head of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of six monographs, including Music and Decadence in European Modernism (2010), After Mahler: Weill, Britten, Henze and Romantic Redemption (2013), editor of Aesthetics of Music: Musicological Approaches (2014) and co-editor of The Szymanowski Companion (2015). He […]Read Post ›

  Jacquelyn Sholes is a full-time Lecturer (Musicology and Ethnomusicology) at Boston University Ph.D., M.F.A., Brandeis University; B.A. summa cum laude (music and mathematics), Wellesley College. Dr. Sholes works primarily on repertory of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, focusing especially on Austro-German and American music. Her book on allusion and inter-movement narrative in the instrumental music of Brahms is under […]Read Post ›

170 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Thursday, June 16 9:00 Welcome 9:20 Opening address: “The Quest for the Historical Joseph” Robert W. Eshbach (University of New Hampshire) Formative Experiences 10:00 Mineo Ota (Miyagigakuin Women’s University), “Joseph Joachim and Gypsy Musicians: Their Relationships and Common Features in Performance Practice” 10:40 Styra Avins (New York City), “Joseph Joachim and the Haskalah: The Dilemma of German […]Read Post ›

Since he was first introduced to the world of historical recordings by his harpsichord teacher Prof. Dr. Robert Hill at the age of 11, Sebastian Bausch has realized the importance of these unique sources as evidence for the long-lost performance traditions of the romantic era. He is currently working on his PhD thesis, in which […]Read Post ›

Camilla Köhnken studied piano performance with Pierre-Laurent Aimard in Cologne, Jerome Rose in New York, and Claudio Martínez Mehner in Basel. Additionally, she completed a BA in medieval history and art history at the University of Frankfurt/Main. Enjoying an international career both as a soloist and chamber musician on modern pianos playing in halls like […]Read Post ›

The College Club of Boston Entrance Commonwealth Avenue from the front door Entry Hall  

Professor, Hochschule der Künste Bern 1969 geboren in Northeim, aufgewachsen in Konstanz und den USA 1991–2002 Studium der Musikwissenschaft, Kunstgeschichte und Rechtswissenschaften: 1997 Magister Artium, 2003 Promotion «summa cum laude» bei Christoph Wolff (Harvard-University und Universität Freiburg im Breisgau) 1991–1996 paralleles Violastudium an der HfM Freiburg: 1996 Diplom-Orchestermusiker 1991–1996 Stipendiat der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes […]Read Post ›

Johannes Gebauer, born in Berlin, studied music at King’s College, Cambridge, and violin with Simon Standage. 1992 he was selected for a public masterclass with Eduard Melkus in the Purcell Room. From 1994-5 he was the youngest member of the Academy of Ancient Music, Collegium Musicum 90 and the Steinitz Bach Players. In 1995 he […]Read Post ›