JOY H. CALICO is University Distinguished Professor of Musicology and German Studies and Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Music at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. She has written extensively about Bertolt Brecht, opera in the 20th and 21st centuries, and Arnold Schoenberg. Her award-winning monograph Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe (California, 2014) was just published in Italian translation (Il Saggiatore, 2023).

PETER J. SCHMELZ is Professor of Musicology at Arizona State University, Tempe. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, his writing has received awards from ASCAP and from the American Musicological Society. His most recent book is Sonic Overload: Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the late USSR (Oxford, 2021). Among other ongoing projects, Professor Schmelz is currently co-editing an introduction to Ukrainian music for Indiana University Press.

LIZA SIRENKO is a music theorist, critic, and current Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Center, CUNY. A second year Master's student at the National Music Academy of Ukraine, she studies contemporary instrumental music and her current research focuses on North American approaches to post-tonal music analysis. She is a co-founder and editor of the Ukrainian classical music website The Claquers, where she discovers music from abroad for Ukrainian audience and explores Ukrainian classical music for English-speaking readers. She is  the former PR Director for the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra and the independent Liatoshynsky Club initiative. 

DIRECTIONS TO HEMMERDINGER CENTER

At the reception desk of the Hunter West Building, please present your ID and proof of vaccination to get a pass.

From there, take the escalator to the 3rd floor, turn right and walk across the sky bridge to the Hunter East Building. Then take the elevator to the 7th floor.

The Hemmerdinger Center is at the end of the hallway past the turnstiles.