Music History Faculty Elizabeth Abbate Rebecca Marchand Teresa Neff Elizabeth Seitz ________________________________________________________________________________ Elizabeth Abbate B.A., M.M., Yale University; Ph.D., Harvard University. Teaching Fellow, Harvard University 1989-94 and 1997. Whiting Fellowship, 1994-95. Paper on Mahler's First Symphony delivered at New England Chapter meeting of American Musicological Society, 1994. Violin studies with Philip Lewis, Syoko Aki, Shirley Givens, Koichiro Harada, Karen Clarke. Orchestral violinist: Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Ballet, Boston Baroque, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Early Music Ensemble of Boston, Leonora String Quartet, Cantata Singers and Ensemble, Emmanuel Music, Boston Lyric Opera/Recording of Salamone Rossi Hebreo with the Zamir Chorale of Boston and Early Music Ensemble of Boston. Formerly: performer with Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Bach Society, and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. ________________________________________________________________________________ Rebecca Marchand Rebecca Marchand (M.A., Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara) specializes in American art music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but has wide-ranging interests as a performer and musical advocate. In addition to serving as Secretary of the Haydn Society of North America, she holds a Certificate in Performing Arts Administration from Emerson College, and both sings with and serves on the executive board for Boston's Spectrum Singers. Her current research focuses on class distinction and Communism in regard to a series of concerts given by the Pittsburgh Symphony in steel-working towns in the 1950s. Rebecca is a part-time faculty member at Longy School of Music and teaches at Providence College and Boston Conservatory.________________________________________________________________________________ Teresa Neff Teresa M. Neff, (Ph.D., Boston University), wrote her dissertation on the life and music of the eighteenth-century Viennese composer and music patron, Gottfried Baron van Swieten. Her edition of his symphonies was published by Artaria Publishing in 2007. In 2006, she presented papers at the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Montreal and the Architecture/Music/Acoustics Conference, Toronto. Teresa is Vice-President of the Chromatic Club of Boston and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Boston Conservatory. ________________________________________________________________________________ Elizabeth Seitz B.A., Brown University; M.A., Boston University; Ph.D., Boston University with a dissertation on the early works of Manuel de Falla and his relationship to the Impressionist movement. Interests range from Schubert to Tito Puente, lecturing widely on these and other topics, including MTV as a cultural force in popular music. Opening Night speaker for Boston Lyric Opera and frequent lecturer at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Taught at Boston University, the New England Conservatory of Music, Tufts University, Brown University and Washington University in St. Louis. Author of a musicological murder mystery entitled Dissertation Most Deadly. ______________________________________________________________________ back to top