Ellen Rosand (us)
A George A. Saden Professor of Music, Ellen Rosand has taught at Yale University since 1992, where she chaired the Department of Music from 1993-98. Recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, Rockefeller, and Guggenheim Foundations, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. She served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society (1981-83), president of the American Musicological Society (1992-94), and vice-president of the International Musicological Society (1997-2002).
In 2006, she founded the Yale Baroque Opera Project, an opera company primarily for Yale undergraduates, with the support of a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
In addition to several dozen articles on music of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque, including the works of Barbara Strozzi, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, and Handel, she is the author of Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991; paperback ed. 2007), and Monteverdi’s Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007), winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society in 2008.
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