saraswathi shukla

There is no musicology without music. Alongside my academic work, I collaborate with musicians on artistic direction, booklet texts and translations, program notes, and pre-concert lectures.


Co-Artistic Director of Bach 6, Lillian Gordis (harpsichord), recorded in January 2024, in progress

Pre-concert discussions for Opera Lafayette’s program of French Baroque cantatas with Christophe Rousset, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (DC) & the Kosciuszko Foundation (New York City), October 2023

Lecture for Opera Lafayette’s Salon Series (online outreach) on Madame de Maintenon, September 2023

“Le Ruckers du Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel, chef-d’œuvre d’une communauté artisanale et musicale perdue,” Pre-concert lecture for Jérôme Hantaï and Lillian Gordis’s recital at the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel (CH), March 2020

Editor of liner notes and programs, as well as the compendium of essays and recordings, Memorandum XXI (Paradizo, 2013), by Skip Sempé for Capriccio Stravagante and Paradizo

Director of Classical Music Programming, WPRB 103.3 FM, Princeton, NJ, 2009-11