Christopher Herbert Professor • Department of Music View CV Website Christopher Dylan Herbert (baritone) performs frequently throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, and is a two-time GRAMMY® nominee. He has soloed with The San Francisco Symphony and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, performed Ginastera centennial celebrations with International Contemporary Ensemble and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, and consistently presents Winterize – an outdoor adaptation of Winterreise with transistor radios. He holds a B.A. in Music from Yale University, an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, and D.M.A. in Voice from The Juilliard School. His current research focus is on the music of eighteenth-century Pennsylvania. He was the baritone in the critically acclaimed ensemble New York Polyphony for a decade. He is the head of the voice program and the Honors Music Track Director at William Paterson University. Professional Interests Music, Musicology, Classical Vocal Performance, Colonial History, Pennsylvania History French Arabic Italian German Degrees DMA Voice, The Juilliard School New York, NY BA Music and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University New Haven, CT MA Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University Cambridge, MA Specialization Music Representative Publications The Sounds of Ephrata: Developing a Research Methodology to Catalog and Study Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvanian Music Manuscripts; , Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association; Volume 76, 2019 https://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/page/Notes “Rose=Lilie=Blume Sequence,” from Das Gesäng der einsamen und verlassenen Turtel=Taube. ; Ephrata Cloister Associates; 2018 A Sweet “Bitter-Sweet” Find in an Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvanian Music Manuscript; Library of Congress; 2019 https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2019/05/a-sweet-bitter-sweet-find-in-an-eighteenth-century-pennsylvanian-music-manuscript/ Representative Presentations Authorship at the Ephrata Cloister Ephrata Cloister History Course Ephrata Cloister Ephrata, PA 2020 Ensemble Singing Pedagogy NATS-NYC Season Opening Meeting NATS-NYC New York, NY 2019 Master Class with New York Polyphony Eastman School of Music Rochester, NY 2018 Awards and Honors Center for Creative Activity & Research Grant College of Arts and Communications - William Paterson University 06/01/2018 Presser Music Award The Juilliard School 03/01/2017 USArtists International Grant Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation 07/01/2018 Media A New Album Re-Creates The Work Of The 1st Known Female Composers In America https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2020/07/24/894685706/a-new-album-recreates-the-work-of-the-first-known-women-composers-in-america Interview discussing the Music of the Ephrata Cloister and the album Voices in the Wilderness At Ephrata, women composers may have been America’s first https://www.post-gazette.com/news/faith-religion/2020/03/01/Ephrata-Cloister-Christopher-Herbert-Earliest-known-American-women-composers/stories/202003010022 Interview with Peter Smith regarding my research on the music of the Ephrata Cloister, including America's first female composers. Performances and Exhibits KOPERNIKUS by Claude Vivier Opera Roomful of Teeth Teatro Arriaga Antzokia A Voyage to Paris Performance WPU Voice Faculty William Paterson University New York Polyphony Performance Performance New York Polyphony Landesmuseum Würtemberg Creative Work Review Carmina Burana with Trinity Wall Street, New York Internet/Social Media Desire by Hannah Lash at the Miller Theatre, New York Internet/Social Media Desire by Hannah Lash at the Miller Theatre, New York Newspaper Fellowships, Grants and Research Translation and musical transcription of the Zionitischer Weyrauchs-Hügel, an eighteenth-century Pennsylvanian hymnal Grant Winterthur Research Fellowship Fellowship Notable Courses Taught Opera Workshop, Vocal Literature, Applied Voice, Chamber Music, Performance of Musical Theatre and Operetta, Music Honors Courses, Music History Email 973 720 2334 172 Shea Center By appointment
