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I studied musicology at Tel Aviv University, King’s College London, and Cambridge University,
completing my PhD on the performance history of Bach’s B minor Mass in 2004,
under the supervision of the renowned Bach scholar and performer John Butt.
I am currently resident in Israel, and work as Executive Editor of IMI News
(journal of the Israel Music Institute, www.imi.org.il) and as a freelance editor
and translator.
I have had considerable experience as a lecturer.
This includes appearances before professional and non-professional
audiences alike, in contexts ranging from public lectures to amateurs
to international conferences and departmental colloquia.
I also appeared and as a guest lecturer in undergraduate courses and MA seminars.
I have worked often with undergraduate and post-graduate students
alike as an editor, advising on aspects of research and presentation.
I have also done work as translator and editor for the Ministry of Education;
the Israel Music Institute; and others. As a translator,
I work in both directions (English to Hebrew, Hebrew to English).
I can therefore offer academic editing, assisting authors in tightening
the structure and argumentation of their texts.
I can also provide advice on works in progress – advising on the viability
of research proposals, assisting in bibliographical searches, and so forth.
Since the completion of my PhD,
I have published several articles on the subject,
and was awarded a British Academy Visiting Fellowship to further
study this fascinating topic.
My ultimate aim in this field is to produce a book-length study:
The Fifth Evangelist, the Impassioned Rhetorician and the Practical Musician: Re-Creating Bach’s Vocal Music in the Age of Recordings.
My other research interests include opera
(especially Monteverdi and Mozart);
the reflection of polemics on music and aesthetics in
musical works; the nature of historical performance;
the relationship between performance and analysis; music and rhetoric;
and, more generally, the relationship between text and music.
I am also studying contemporary Israeli music, especially the works of
Josef Bardanashvili and Ella Milch-Sheriff.
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