My work brings together the study of 17th- and 18th-century musical practices, particularly as they pertain to instrumental music, and the 20th- and 21st-century revivals of historical performance. As such, my research is multidisciplinary and transhistorical and relies on methodologies and sources that are relatively new to both fields.
Monograph in Preparation
My book project, Mirrors and Mirages: Early Music and its Ecosystems (proposal under review), examines the early music movement as a modern renaissance, inspired by 17th- and 18th- century antecedents and shaped by 20th- and 21st-century political and aesthetic values.
Research on 17th- and 18th-century music
Research on 20th- and 21th-century early music
research on 17th- and 18th-century music
ARTICLES & CHAPTERS
“Operatic Virtuosity at the Keyboard: Claude Balbastre & Rameau’s Legacy,” Keyboard Perspectives X (2017): 45–64.
REVIEWS & BLOGS
Review: The Operas of Rameau: Genesis Staging, and Reception, ed. Graham Sadler, Shirley Thompson, and Jonathan Williams (Ashgate, 2021), Early Music America, (June 2023).
Review: The Golden Age of Flemish Harpsichord Making: A Study of the MIM’s Ruckers Instruments, ed. Pascale Vandervellen (Brussels: Musical Instruments Museum, 2017). Journal of 17th-Century Music 26 (2020).
Review: Zones: Domenico Scarlatti, Lillian Gordis (Paraty, 2019). 18th-Century Music 17/2 (2020): 287–90.
“Commercializing Opera through Paris’ First Musical Periodical,” JHIBlog (2015), https://www.jhiblog.org/2015/04/27/commercializing-opera-through-paris-first-musical-periodical/.
Johann David Heinichen’s Gründliche Anweisung (1711), tr. Benedikt Brilmayer, Casey Mongoven (Pendragon Press, 2012), Early Music America 19/4 (Winter, 2013): 48–49.
CONFERENCES & TALKS
“Inventing the French Harpsichord: Antiquarians, Connoisseurs, Encyclopedists, and the Eighteenth-Century Art Market,” at the 21st Quinquennial Meeting of the International Musicological Society, August 2022
“The Musicians of Saint-Merry: Communauté, Urban Networks, and Instrumental Music in Seventeenth-Century Paris” at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, June 2021
“The Musicians of Saint-Merry: Communauté & Urban Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris” at the 84th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, November 2018
“Les musiciens de Saint-Merry : communautés et réseaux urbains à Paris au XVIIIe siècle” at Rethinking Music in France during the Baroque Era, hosted by the Sorbonne, IReMus, Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, and Fondation Royaumont, June 2018
“A History of Harpsichord Touch in France: Performance Practice on the Periphery” at Researching Performance, Performing Research, hosted by the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, November 2017
“Embodied Devotion and the Rhetoric of Variation in John Dowland’s Lachrimae and Dieterich Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu nostri” at the Annual Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Graduate Student Conference, UC Berkeley, April 2016
“Seeing Rubens, Hearing Ruckers: The Sonic Palette of the Franco-Flemish Harpsichord” at the 80th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, November 2014
“Lost in Translation: The German Lullisten and the ‘French’ Harpsichord Suite” at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, April 2014
“Operatic Virtuosity at the Keyboard: Claude Balbastre and Rameau’s Legacy” at Rameau, entre art et science, hosted by the IRPMF, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Royaumont, Opéra-Comique, March 2014
“The Journal de Clavecin and the Commercialization of Parisian Operatic Taste, 1762-1772” at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, April 2013
“The Journal de Clavecin and the Commercialization of Parisian Operatic Taste, 1762-1772” at the Annual Meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, January 2013
“Mesmerizing Music: Sound, Imagination, and Communication in the Mesmeric Séance” at the Annual Graduate Symposium, Rice University, September 2008
PANELS & WORKSHOPS
Panelist on “More than Materials: On the Values of Musical Matter” with Marc Perlman, Nicholas Mathew, Emily Dolan, Chang Liu at the 21st Quinquennial Meeting of the International Musicological Society, August 2022
Session Organizer of “‘Emotional Pedagogy’ in the 21st Century: Linking Sources and Performance in Early Music” at Researching Performance, Performing Research, hosted by the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, November 2017
Curator of “Some Early Music Treasures in the Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library,” an exhibit featuring forty books and manuscripts from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, UC Berkeley, February 2015
research on 20th- and 21st-c. early music
EDITED VOLUME in Preparation
The Worlds of the Organ and Harpsichord: In memoriam David Fuller, ed. with Bruce Gustafson, in progress.
ARTICLES & CHAPTERS
“Hyperreal Authenticity in the Postwar Early Music Recording,” Sound Studies Review 1 (2023): 67–106.
CONFERENCES & TALKS
“Alfred Einstein and the Revival of Early Music in the 1940s,” at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, April 2025
“The Revival of Early Music and the Hegemony of a French Harpsichord,” Colloquium series, CU Boulder (February 2024)
“Hyperreal Authenticity and the Evolution of Early Music Recordings” at The Revival of Heritage, in memoriam Richard Taruskin hosted by the Stichting Muziekhistorische Uitvoeringspraktijk (STIMU) at the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht (August 2023)
“Hyperreal Authenticity in the Postwar Early Music Recording” at the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, November 2021
PANELS & WORKSHOPS
Workshop facilitator for “Transforming Narratives: Developing Effective Strategies for an Inclusive Music-History Pedagogy” with Ireri Chavez-Bárcenas, Joyce Chen, and Erika Honisch at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, April 2022
“The Harpsichordist in 2021: Systemic Challenges to Inclusion and Diversity” at Diversity and Belonging: Unsung Keyboard Stories hosted by the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies and the University of Michigan, January 2022