Editorial Boards

GENERAL EDITOR
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Lisa Urkevich, PhD, is a musicologist and scholar at Georgetown University specializing in the music and cultural heritage of the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf States, as well as Renaissance music. She is the author of numerous publications including Music and Traditions of the Arabian Peninsula (Routledge) and ‘Anne Boleyn’s French Motet Book: A Childhood Gift’ (Paris-Sorbonne).

Dr. Urkevich has lived, taught, and conducted field research throughout the Arabian Gulf for more than three decades and advises governments and cultural institutions on performing arts, education, and heritage initiatives. Before relocating to the Middle East, she held faculty appointments at Boston University, where she served jointly in the College of Fine Arts, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She has taught at several institutions including Bucknell University and the University of Maryland.

Dr. Urkevich is a former editor of the International C.P.E. Bach Edition and previously served as Film/Video Reviews Editor of the Yearbook for Traditional Music (ICTMD/UNESCO). A former Harvard University Fellow and two-time U.S. Senior Fulbright Scholar, she is also the recipient of the University of Maryland Alumna of the Year Award.

She holds four degrees: PhD, University of Maryland; MM, Florida State University; BS, Towson University; BA, University of Maryland Baltimore County. More information: www.urkevich.com

SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH
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James A. Grymes is the author of Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust—Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour (Harper Perennial, 2014), which won a National Jewish Book Award. He is also the author of Ernst von Dohnányi: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 2001), as well as the editor of both Ernst von Dohnányi: A Song of Life (Indiana University Press, 2002) and Perspectives on Ernst von Dohnányi (Scarecrow Press, 2005). His research has appeared in scholarly journals such as Acta Musicologica, Hungarian Quarterly, Music Library Association Notes, and Studia Musicologica. 

Grymes is Professor of Musicology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he is an affiliate faculty member in the Holocaust, Genocide, & Human Rights Studies program and a member of the Honors Faculty. A recipient of teaching awards from the American Musicological Society and the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, his writings on the pedagogy of music history and appreciation have appeared in Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom (Scarecrow Press, 2011) and the Journal of Music History Pedagogy.

Grymes holds a baccalaureate degree in Music Education from Virginia Commonwealth University. He also holds a master's degree in Music Performance, a master's degree in Musicology, a Certificate in Early Music, and a Ph.D. in Musicology from The Florida State University, which has awarded him with a Faculty Citation for Distinguished Achievement in Scholarly Research in Music.

FORUMS
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JOSEF HANSON, Ph.D., is Associate Professor, Coordinator of Music Education, and Assistant Director for Graduate Studies in the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at the University of Memphis, where he oversees bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs in music education. As a teacher and scholar, he seeks unique ways to illuminate intersections between his two disciplinary passions, music education and arts entrepreneurship. Hanson teaches courses in instrumental music, research methods, and facilitates the School of Music’s unique seminar for first-year students. He also prepares new music faculty.  In demand as a presenter and clinician, he is a frequent contributor at a wide range of conferences nationally and internationally.  

BOOK REVIEWS
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Jacquelyn Sholes (Ph.D., M.F.A., musicology, Brandeis University; B.A. summa cum laude, music and mathematics, Wellesley College) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She previously held visiting faculty appointments at Boston University, Brown University, Wellesley College, Williams College, and the University of Rochester. She is a past President of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society and served as Acting Co-Director (with Lewis Lockwood) of the Center for Beethoven Research in Spring 2018. Her research focuses on musical meaning and narrative and on issues surrounding reportorial canons, particularly in music of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Her first book, Allusion as Narrative Premise in Brahms’s Instrumental Music (Indiana University Press, 2018) examines the ways in which Brahms appears to weave allusions to the music of other composers into broad, movement-spanning narratives that reflect Brahms’s attempts to define and articulate his own historical position. Dr. Sholes has authored articles and reviews in such journals as 19th-Century Music, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, The Journal of Musicological Research, and Notes. Her work has been presented at meetings of the American Musicological Society, Society for American Music, German Studies Association, and Nineteenth-Century Studies Association and at the North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music. She has also done interdisciplinary consulting work with neuroscientists at MIT resulting in co-authorship on a publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Her current projects continue to explore issues surrounding narrative and the canon, as well as connections between music and literature, national identity, math, and science and technology. https://www.jacquelynsholes.com

TECHNOLOGY AND ONLINE RESOURCES
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AUDIO PERFORMANCE
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Julian Bennett Holmes is an award-winning composer, performer, and researcher. He is in charge of chapel music at Columbia University, and he teaches music theory at the Mannes School of Music. He is presently a doctoral candidate at the Manhattan School of Music. He serves as associate editor of Music & Nature, and in 2024, he produced a critical edition of three pieces by Bartolomeo Bernardi for the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music.

Bennet Holmes is the recipient of numerous awards, including those of the Society for New Music, the Society for Chamber Music in Rochester, and the National Federation of Music Clubs. He has presented at conferences of EuroMAC (Strasbourg, France), the Rutgers University Musicological Society Conference, the Society of Composers, and at the University of Delaware. He hosted the New York City American Guild of Organists conference, and he chaired the Graduate Theory Conference at the Manhattan School of Music. 

Bennet Holmes’ pieces have been performed in the United States and Europe, and he has played hundreds of concerts across North America and Europe, and as far as Bosnia, Croatia, and the Republic of Georgia. He has performed at festivals including South by Southwest, North by Northeast, CMJ, Blue Hill Bach, and the Sarajevo Film Festival and has given guest lectures in the United States and China. His performances have been reviewed in The Wire and elsewhere, and his work has been noted in New York Magazine, The New York Times, Paper Magazine, among others.

He is also a record producer, having produced albums for labels including Impose Records, Beautiful Records, Intellectual Bird Records. His compositions and performances appear on releases by Aagoo Records, Fire Talk Records, 8bitpeoples Records, among others.

MUSIC BUSINESS-INDUSTRY
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Daniel Walzer, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Music and Arts Technology at Indiana University Indianapolis. Originally trained as a percussionist, he maintains an active career as composer, audio engineer, session musician, and academic.

As a composer, Dr. Walzer has created works for small ensembles, solo instruments, and fixed media soundscapes. His compositions have been featured at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, International Computer Music Festival, and Dennison New Music Festival. He won the 2016 360 Jazz Composer's Initiative from UNC Chapel Hill and has had premieres by the Adelphi University Flute Ensemble and at the New Music at the Bayou Festival. His discography spans over twenty albums across diverse genres.

From 2015-2017, Dr. Walzer served as co-Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation AISL project with Dr. Jesse Heines (Professor Emeritus, UMass Lowell). Their project, "Teach a Computer to Sing," explored connections between singing and computer coding in after-school programs for middle school students.

Dr. Walzer has published over thirty peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings on music technology and education, presenting at conferences in the US, UK, Canada, and Turkey.

He holds a Ph.D. in Leadership (University of the Cumberlands), MFA in Music Production and Sound Design (Academy of Art University), MM (University of Cincinnati), BM (Bowling Green State University), and a graduate certificate in Learning Science, Media, and Technology (IU Bloomington).

Dr. Walzer serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Music, Technology & Education and on the editorial board of TOPICS for Music Education Praxis. He co-edited Audio Education: Theory, Culture, and Practice with Dr. Mariana Lopez and authored Leadership in Music Technology Education (both Focal Press).

PERFORMANCES, LECTURES, LECTURE-RECITALS
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ANNA HERSEY, a soprano hailed by critics as a “force of nature,” enjoys performing a wide range of vocal repertoire. A native of Minnesota, she has performed throughout the United States and Europe, appearing with Palm Beach Opera, Florida Chamber Orchestra, Hispanic-American Lyric Theater, Skylark Opera, the Minnesota Opera, and Theatre de la Jeune Lune (at Berkeley Repertory Theater), among others. She is presently Assistant Professor of Voice, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, and the editor-in-chief of VOICEPrints, the peer-reviewed journal of the New York Singing Teachers Association. She has taught at a myriad of institutions including Iowa State University, Barry University, Broward College, University of Miami, and Eastern New Mexico University.

Hersey earned her doctorate at the University of Miami where she was a Smathers Fellow. She holds master’s degrees in performance and musicology from the University of Minnesota and pursued advanced studies at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. As an expert on Scandinavian vocal literature and diction, Hersey was a Fulbright Scholar at the Kungliga Musikhögskolan (Royal College of Music) in Stockholm, where she collaborated with pianist Matti Hirvonen. She also conducted research at Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium (Royal Danish Academy of Music) and Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen), with support from a post-doctoral fellowship of the American Scandinavian Foundation.

Hersey’s articles have been published in the Journal of Singing, VOICEPrints, and The Opera Journal, and her translations and transcriptions have been published by Carnegie Hall. Her first book, Scandinavian Song: A Guide to Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish Diction and Repertoire was released in 2016. Recent performances have been sponsored by Finlandia Foundation, American Scandinavian Foundation, Sons of Norway, The Lief Eriksson International Festival, and The Grieg Society. http://annahersey.com

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS

Scholarship and Research

Sarah Allen (2022-2025)
Southern Methodist University

Clifton Boyd (2022-2025)
New York University

Melissa Brunkan (2022-2025)
University of Oregon

Alfredo Colman (2021-2024)
Baylor University

James Day (2020-2023)
Gettysburg College

Philip Ewell (2022-2025)
Hunter College

Maxine Fawcett-Yeske (2021-2024)
United States Air Force Academy

Robert Gardner (2021-2024)
Pennsylvania State University

Melissa Grady (2022-2025)
University of Kansas

Kunio Hara (2022-2025)
University of South Carolina

Kelly Hollingsworth (2020-2023)
Baylor University

James Lyon (2020-2023)
Pennsylvania State University

Anabel Maler (2022-2025)
University of British Columbia

Imani Mosley (2022-2025)
University of Florida

Carlos Xavier Rodriguez (2020-2023)
University of Michigan

Ciro Scotto (2020-2023)
Ohio University

Shayna Stahl (2022-2025)
University of Kentucky

Music Business-Industry

Scott Barton
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

adam patrick bell
Western University, Canada

Frank Bell
Georgia Tech University

Jeffrey Izzo
Cal State Northridge

Tiger Robinson
University of Wyoming

Forums

Andrew Adams, Performance
Western Carolina University

Sabrina Rashelle Clarke, Career Development
West Chester University

Radio Cremata, Music Technology
Ithaca College

Michael Laymon, Composition
Harold Washington College

Performances, Lectures, Lecture-Recitals, Training

Pete Smucker
Stetson University

John Nix
The University of Texas at San Antonio