Karen Leistra-Jones
Education
Ph.D., Musicology, Yale University, May 2011
Dissertation: "Virtue and Virtuosity: Brahms, the Concerto, and the Politics of Performance in the Late Nineteenth Century"
M. Phil, Musicology, Yale University, 2008
M.A., Musicology, Yale University, 2007
B. Mus., Piano Performance and Music History, McGill University, 2005 (high distinction)
Publications
"Staging Authenticity: Joachim, Brahms, and the Politics of Werktreue Performance." Journal of the American Musicological Society 66/2 (Summer 2013)
Presentations
"The deeps have music soft and low": Sounding the Ocean in Edward Elgar's Sea Pictures." Loco/Motion (sponsored by the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association). Fresno, CA. March 2013.
"Improvisational Idyll: Joachim's 'Presence' and Brahms's Violin Concerto, op. 77." Brahms in the New Century (sponsored by the American Brahms Society). New York, NY. March 2012.
"Virtuoso Asceticism and the Problem of Theatricality in Late Nineteenth-Century Performance." The American Musicological Society, Amherst, MA. October 2010
"Intertextual Allusion and the Evocation of Tradition in the Quebecois Chanson." The Society for American Music, Ottawa, Canada. March 2010
"Brahms's Second Piano Concerto and the Staging of Anti-Virtuosic Virtuosität." The Institute of Musical Research, London, England. April 2009
Course Information
MUS 101 Introduction to Western Art Music
MUS 170 Virtuosity and the Performing Self
MUS 230 Music History 1: Antiquity to 1750
MUS 231 Music History 2: 1750 to Present
MUS 274 Song Cycles
