Service to the University
Committees:
2006-present
• Member, School of Music doctoral orals committees.
Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA): Sheila Cathay, Vartan Aghababian, Daniel Broniatowski, June Chen, Tsu-Wen Chen, Rebecca Hartka, Mei-mi Lan, Wen-Hsuan Lin, Ivana Lisak, Jung Sun Yoon, Jou-Won Lee, Hye Ryun Cha, and others.
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D): Stefano Graziano. Andrew Shryock.
2006-2007:
• Member, College of Fine Arts Academic Conduct Committee
• Member, School of Music Student Life and Honors Committee
• Member, School of Music Research and Library Committee
2007-2008:
• Secretary, School of Music Undergraduate Studies Committee
• Member, School of Music Research and Library Committee
• Member, College of Fine Arts Academic Conduct Committee
• Member, School of Music Director's task force for Faculty Merit Review
• Member, School of Music Merit Review Committee
• Member, School of Music Musicology Search Committee
2008-2009:
• Member, School of Music Research and Library Committee
2009-2010:
[BUCH Junior Fellowship Leave]
2010-2011
• Member, School of Music Graduate Studies Committee, School of Music.
• Member, School of Music Theory Search Committee
• School of Music Representative, Executive Committee, College of Fine Arts.
2011-2014
• Representative, University Faculty Council
• Member, School of Music Undergraduate Studies Committee
• School of Music Representative, Executive Committee, College of Fine Arts
2014-2016
• Member, CFA APT Committee
• Executive Board, BU Center for the Humanities
2014-2015
• Member, School of Music Graduate Studies Committee
Additional Service to Boston University
• April 2014: volunteered for the BU Prison Education program for the course MU501: Special Topics in Music: Music, Culture, and Societal Transformation.
• April 2014: Contributed program notes to BU Opera Institute production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
• October 2013: A Celebration of BU Authors: reading from the monograph Recondite Harmony: Essays on Puccini’s Operas. http://www.bu.edu/arts/calendar/?eid=141561
• September-October, 2013: organized multi-event conference Wagner In Context.
The year 2013 was the bicentennial of the birth of Richard Wagner, one of the most important and controversial European figures of the nineteenth century—his music, tainted by association with the Third Reich, is still unofficially banned in Israel. Wagner’s work transcends any one discipline and his influence extends far beyond his musical creations to the realms of politics, philosophy, literature, and the status of the artist. An exploration of Wagner’s legacy should then be interdisciplinary by nature. Marking this anniversary, a series of broad-appeal events at BU collectively entitled “Wagner in Context” was held in Fall 2013, examining not only Wagner’s music, but his poetry, ideas, philosophy and politics. Events included a lecture/presentation by Wagner's great-grandson, author and anti-Nazi activist, Gottfried Wagner, broadcast on WBUR’s World of Ideas; a showing of the new documentary Wagner’s Jews; a round-table of BU professors from the departments of musicology, philosophy, the Center for the Study of Europe and others; a presentation by opera professionals from the Metropolitan Opera regarding staging Wagner operas; the inclusion of a Wagner instrumental selection on a Boston University Chamber Orchestra concert; and the creation of a facebook page dedicated to the events and linked to cultural sites in many fields. Support for these events have come from the BU Arts Initiative, the BU Center for the Humanities, the BU Center for the Study of Europe, the BU Jewish Cultural Endowment, the Boston Wagner Society and others. Some events will be made available on BUniverse.
https://www.facebook.com/wagnerincontext
• April 2013: Contributed program notes to BU Opera Institute production of Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito.
• Proposed the re-establishment of the Music Theory Colloquium Series in 2008-2009,
which was was accepted by the School of Music Director. Invited guests have included:
Peter Kaminsky (University of Connecticut-Storrs), Gary Karpinski (University of
Massachusetts-Amherst), Ian Quinn (Yale University), Giorgio Sanguinetti (University of
Rome-Tor Vergata), Jon Wild (McGill) and Peter Westergaard (Princeton).
• Invited guest speakers for the Composers’ Forum (MU300): William Bolcom (University of Michigan), Martin Bresnick (Yale University), and Peter Westergaard (Princeton University).
• Arranged special concert of Puccini arias and scenes for the visit to Boston University of Simonetta Puccini (grand-daughter of the composer) and Liborio Stellino (Italian Consulate General of Boston), January 2008.
• Contributed program notes to the Boston University Opera Institute’s production of Puccini’s La bohème.
• Assisted with the creation and grading of doctoral qualifying exams each semester.
• Editorial reader for the Brownstone Journal.
• Ensemble performer for Time’s Arrow concert, 8 February 2011.
• Organized interdisciplinary conference, Opera and Society, April 18-19, 2008, Boston University), www.operaandsociety.org. It included specialists in music, theater, history and performance. (More information, including podcasts of the presentations, can be found at the conference website: www.operaandsociety.org). In addition to bringing to Boston University eminent scholars from the University of Chicago, Harvard, Princeton and elsewhere, the conference fostered collaboration among different areas of speciality at Boston University: members of the School of Theater, the BU Opera Institute and performers working with Boston Baroque all played important parts. A special guest was Gottfried Wagner, great-grandson of the composer. Positive feedback has been received from scholars all over the US who have seen the podcasts, which are also viewable at the Boston University Digital Common (dcommon.bu.edu).