Music History Faculty Elizabeth Abbate Teresa Neff Karen Ruymann 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. ________________________________________________________________________________ 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 will be 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. _______________________________________________________________________________ Karen Ruymann ________________________________________________________________________________ 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