Yana A. Lowry, Musicology

Dissertation Title: "From Massenlieder to Massovaya Pesnya: Musical Exchanges between Communists and Socialists of Weimar Germany and the Early Soviet Union." Advisor: Dr. Bryan Gilliam

Contact Info:

Office Location:	044 Biddle Music Building
Office Phone:	(704) 798-1884
Email Address:

Education:

Master of Arts	Duke University	2010
Bachelor of Music	University of North Carolina at Greensboro (summa cum laude)	2008
Bachelor of Arts	Univeristy of North Carolina at Greensboro	2008

Specialties:

Musicology
Performance

Areas of Interest:

Political songs in early Soviet period and Weimar Germany
Emotion and collective performance
Use of music in fiction
Language and Music
Baroque flute and historical performance
Flute works by Soviet Composers

Duties:

Fall 2011: Research Assistant for Dr. Bryan Gilliam

Curriculum Vitae

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• Student Excelence Award, UNC Greensboro, May, 2008
• Katherine Robinson Everett History Award, UNC Greensboro, May, 2007

Selected Grant Support

• James B. Duke Fellowship, Duke University.      

Performance

• Solo Recital, Baroque and Modern Flutes, Duke University, 2010
  
• Duke New Music Ensemble, 2008-present
• Honors Lecture-Recital, UNC Greensboro, 2008: "Soviet Flute Music in early 1960s: its Background and Guide to Performance"
• Winner, UNC Greensboro Concerto Competition: Jacques Ibert's Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, 2007
• Finalist, Lagrange Symphony Orchestra Competition, 2007
• Flautist, Greensboro Opera Company, Greensboro, NC, 2007
• Performance based scholarship, UNC Greensboro, 2004-2008
• Winner, National Young Artist Competition, Kazakhstan, 1998
• Prize, Best Performance of Music by Kazakh Composers, 2008
• Solo Recitals, UNC Greensboro, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008