Associate
Professor of Music; Acting Chair, Fall 2002; Chair,
2004-5 and 2006-7
Education:
B.A., Oberlin College; Certificate in Baroque Flute Performance, Royal
Conservatory of the Hague; A.M., Ph.D., Duke University
Courses
Offered at Wellesley: 111 (Introduction to the Language of Music), 200 (History of Western Music I), 222/322 (Music, Gender, and Sexuality), 223/323 (Das Lied: The Music and Poetry of the German Art Song), 224 (Hildegard of Bingen), 230 (Opera: Its History, Music, and Drama), 300 (Topics: Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute, Treasures of Seicento Venice, J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion, The Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach, Music by F. Mendelssohn: Felix and Fanny's Intertwined Careers, The World of Henry Purcell [1659-95]), and Experimental 235 (Marvels of Paris and Versailles under Louis XIV).
Biographical
Information: Research support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Association d’action artistique of the French Government, and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for Research in Venice. Subventions from the American Musicological Society and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation supported the publication of Desperate Measures: The Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006) [book and CD], which won the 2007 Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography from ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers of Music) and Honorable Mention for the 2007 Pauline Alderman Award for Excellence in the Field of Women in Music from the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM). Articles published in Amadeus, Early Music, and Goldberg Early Music Magazine. Liner Notes on compact discs by Bizzarrie Armoniche (Milano) and La Donna Musicale (Boston). Essays in Proceedings of Conferences held in Leipzig 2005 (“Zu gross, zu unerreichbar”: Bach-Rezeption im Zeitalter Mendelssohns and Schumanns) and Parma 2007 (Francesco Buti tra Roma e Parigi: diplomazia, poesia, teatro). Member American Musicological Society (national and NorthEast Chapter), Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, IAWM, American Friends of the Marciana Library, and Early Music America.
Website:
http://www.wellesley.edu/Music/Fontijn/index.html
Photo by
Pryde Brown.
