Biographical Info of Angela R. Mace

Angela R. Mace is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at Duke University, where she received her Master of Arts in musicology in 2008. She is writing her dissertation “Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and the Formation of the ‘Mendelssohnian’ Style” advised by R. Larry Todd. She was awarded a Duke University David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Reference Internship for the school year 2011-2012.

Mace was in residence in Berlin, Germany, 2010-2011, supported by a full research grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). She attended colloquium at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, researched her dissertation in the Mendelssohn-Archiv of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin-Preußischer Kulturbesitz, and was a volunteer for the Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft at their exhibit, the Mendelssohn-Remise, in central Berlin.

Mace revised and enlarged J. Michael Cooper’s Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Research and Information Guide for the Routledge series (2011). She is co-editor, with Nicole Grimes, of Mendelssohn Perspectives for Ashgate Press (forthcoming, 2012). She is the co-author, with R. Larry Todd, of “Mendelssohn and the Free Chorale” (Choral Journal 49/9, March 2009), and the "Verzeichnis der Werke Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys" in the German translation of Todd’s Mendelssohn biography, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Sein Leben, Seine Musik (Carus/Reclam, 2008). She has also written short CD reviews for Early Music America, and full-length book and score reviews for Nineteenth-Century Music Review.

Mace has presented her research at conferences in the United States of America, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. She holds a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from Vanderbilt University (summa cum laude, 2006), and continues to perform on both the piano and the organ.

Professional and Teaching Experience
Duke University Department of Music

Instructor: Class Piano (MUS 79s), Summer 2007, Sessions I and II

Graduate teaching assistant
- Jacqueline Waeber, MUS 119s: The Humanities and Music (Fall 2007)
- Kerry McCarthy, MUS 190s: Music in Renaissance England (Spring 2008)
- R. Larry Todd, MUS 157: Music after 1850 (Fall 2008)
- Harry Davidson, MUS 49s: Shakespeare and Music (Spring 2009)

Duke University Libraries
- Reference Intern, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 2011-2012. - Graduate circulation assistant, Music Library, Summer 2008 and 2009
- Graduate assistant, Cataloging and Commercial binding (Smith Warehouse), Summer 2010

Fellowship leave 2009 - 2011 (see "Grant Support" below)

Guest lecturer in select classes (outside of graduate teaching assistantships) for R. Larry Todd, Harry Davidson, Philipp Rupprecht, Anthony Kelley, and Makiko Kawamoto in the Department of Music, and Michael Morton in the Department of German.

Professional Affiliations

- International Musicological Society
- Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft Berlin
- American Musicological Society
- American Musicological Society, Southeast Chapter
- North American British Music Studies Association