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• Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Musicology, Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenUniversity of Salzburg, on FWF-Projekt P24075 Früher Notendruck in deutschsprachigen Ländern: Technik und Repertoireentwicklung, with Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl and Elisabeth Giselbrecht.

Current projects

• Music and Theology in Reformation Germany: The Case of Leonhard Päminger, Katholieke Universiteit KU Leuven, with David Burn , Peter de Mey and Inga Behrendt

• Marsilio Ficino in Renaissance Germany: A Reception History (Geneva: Librairie Droz, forthcoming 20112012)

• Biography, edition and translation of the works of the Breslau humanist Laurentius Corvinus (c. 1466-1527)

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• Edition of the first German translation of the Corpus Hermeticum, by Sebastian Franck (1542)

• Edition of Paul Hofhaimer's Harmoniae poeticae (1539), appearing as part of Hofhaimer’s Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke for the series Denkmäler der Musik in Salzburg

• Member of the project Musique et musiciens dans les Saintes-Chapelles XIIIe-XVIIIe siècles, funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France (2011-2014)

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• 2008-2010: CNRS Postdoctoral research fellowship, Le STUDIUM/CESR, collaborator on project Prosopographie des chantres de la Renaissance with David Fiala, Philippe Vendrix and Camilla Cavicchi: http://ricercar.cesr.univ-tours.fr/3-programmes/PCR/

• 2010-2012: Postdoctoral research fellowship, KU Leuven

• 2011 (January): Long Room Hub Fellowship, Trinity College Dublin

• 2012: Praemium Erasmianum Foundation Research Prize: http://www.erasmusprijs.org/index.cfm?lang=en&page=Research+Prizes

Research Interests

• Marsilio Ficino

• Desiderius Erasmus

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• 15th and 16th century cartography

Doctoral PhD Dissertations

• ‘Orpheus Germanicus: Metrical Music and the Reception of Marsilio Ficino's Poetics and Music Theory in Renaissance Germany’ (University of Melbourne, 2002. Supervisor: Prof. John Griffiths, Faculty of Music)
  • Accepted unanimously by committee without amendment
  • Awarded the inaugural McCredie Medal for Musicology by the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2008): http://www.humanities.org.au/Grants/McCredie/

• ‘Raising the Ghost of Arius: Erasmus, the Johannine Comma and Religious Difference in Early Modern Europe’ (Universiteit Leiden, 2011. Supervisor: prof. dr Henk Jan de Jonge, Faculty of Theology).
  • awarded Praemium Erasmianum Research Prize: http://www.erasmusprijs.org/index.cfm?lang=en&page=Research+Prizes

Books

• Marsilio Ficino in Renaissance Germany: A Reception History (Geneva: Librairie Droz, forthcoming 2011)appearing 2013)

• Paul Hofhaimer. Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke, Band IV: Harmoniae poeticae (1539). In series: Denkmäler der Musik in Salzburg (appearing 2013)

• Philipp Melanchthon and Music, co-edited with Inga Groote (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 2011appearing 2013)

Peer-reviewed journal articles

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• ‘Georgius Agricola and the invention of petroleum,’ forthcoming in Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 73 (2011): 351--364

• ‘Het Comma Johanneum’, in Met Andere Woorden. Kwartaalblad over Bijbelvertalen 30 (2011): 10--21

• ‘Music, Magic, and Humanism in Late Sixteenth-Century Venice: Fabio Paolini and the Heritage of Ficino, Vicentino and Zarlino’, Journal of the Alamire Foundation 4 (2012): 52--78

Chapters in edited collections

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• ‘La musique à la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Senlis,’ in Renaissances musicales La musique en Picardie 14e-17e sièclesdu XIVe au XVIIe siècle, ed. Camilla Cavicchi, Marie-Alexis Colin and Camilla Cavicchi Philippe Vendrix (Turnhout: Brepols, 20112012): 144--151 (in press).

• ‘Musique et musiciens de Soissons,’ in Renaissances musicales La musique en Picardie 14e-17e sièclesdu XIVe au XVIIe siècle, ed. Camilla Cavicchi, Marie-Alexis Colin and Camilla Cavicchi Philippe Vendrix (Turnhout: Brepols, 20112012): 152--161 (in press).

• ‘Musique et musiciens à Abbeville,’ in Renaissances musicales La musique en Picardie 14e-17e sièclesdu XIVe au XVIIe siècle, ed. Camilla Cavicchi, Marie-Alexis Colin and Camilla Cavicchi Philippe Vendrix (Turnhout: Brepols, 20112012): 73--95 (in press).

• ‘Proportions of the Divine: Nicola Vicentino and Augustine’s Theology of the Trinity,’ in Proportions. Science, Musique, Peinture & Architecture, ed. Sabine Rommeneaux, Philippe Vendrix and Vasco Zara (Turnhout: Brepols, 20112012): 169--179 (in press).

• ‘Humanist sodalities in Early Modern Central Europe,’ in College and the Academic Community in the European and the American Tradition, ed. Mark O’Connor and Piotr Wilczek (Warsaw/Boston: University of Warsaw Press/Sub Lupa, 2011): 90-104

• ‘Philipp Melanchthon, theologian and musician,’ in Philipp Melanchthon and Music, ed. Grantley McDonald and Inga Groote. «Collection Épitome musicale» (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 20112012).

• ‘The metrical harmoniæ of Wolfgang Gräfinger and Ludwig Senfl in the mirror of Humanism, Neoplatonism and Nicodemism,’ in Senfl-Studien I, ed. Stefan Gasch, Birgit Lodes and Sonja Tröster. Wiener Forum für Ältere Musikgeschichte 5 4 (Tutzing: Schneider, forthcoming 2011)2012): 69--148.

Exhibition catalogues

• 'Laurentius Corvinus', in Weltentdecker-Weltbeschreiber. Kartenschätze & Reisebeschreibungen aus der Ratsschulbibliothek Zwickau, ed. L. Mahnke (Zwickau: Kunstsammlungen der Städtischen Museen, 2006): 34-36

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• Respublica Litteraria in Action 2. 29 October 2010. The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kraków. Panel: ‘Interconfessional contacts in Renaissance correspondence,’ with Irena Backus, Michał Choptiany, Howard Hotson, Jakub Koryl and Alan Ross

• Telesio & la musique. 25 November 2010, CESR Tours. ‘Putting Telesio in context: Melanchthon’s theories of spiritus and astrology, and their relationship to musical creativity.’

• Conceptio Spiritus: Meeting of the DFG research group »Ästhetik der Geister«. Universität Tübin-gen, 31 March--1 April 2011. 1 April 2011: ‘Melanchthon’s theory of spirit as a bridge between Galen, Ficino and Luther.’

• Humanism, Humanistic Trends and Paradigms in Polish Culture. University of Warsaw, 11 May 2011: ‘Humanism and Music.’

• Figurationen des Schöpferischen. Die Melancholie und ihre Schwestern: ein Kulturvergleich / Figurations of Creativity. Melancholy and her Sisters: a Cross-Cultural Comparison. IK Morphomata, Universität Köln. 7--8 June 2011. 8 June: ‘Hermetic Anthropology and Melancholia in Magnus Hundt’s Anthropologium (1501).’

• Werk Raum Senfl. Universität Wien, 9--11 June 2011. 9 June: ‘The life and trials of Lutheran musicians at the courts of Wilhelm IV and Ludwig X of Bavaria.’

• Medieval and Renaissance International Music Conference. Institut d’Estudis Catalans/ Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona, 5--8 July 2011. 5 July: ‘Leonhard Päminger’s cruciform canons Vexilla regis and Tua cruce and Luther’s theology of the cross.’

• VII European Music Analysis Conference. Conservatorio Santa Cecilia, Rome, 29 September--2 October 2011. 30 September: ‘Canons and crosses: Leonhard Päminger’s Vexilla regis prodeunt and Tua cruce triumphamus.’

• Meeting of DFG research group »Aisthetik der Geister«. LMU Munich, 29--30 October 2011. 29 October: ‘Who’s afraid of Marsilio Ficino?’

• Meeting of ANR research group MMSC: Musique et musiciens dans les Saintes-Chapelles XIIIe-XVIIIe siècles. Université Versailles-Saint Quentin, 24--25 November 2011: ‘La Sainte-Chapelle de Cha-teaudun.’

• Invited lecture at the LMU Munich, 6 December 2011: ‘The reception of the work of Marsilio Ficino in Italy and Germany.’

• Medieval and Renaissance International Music Conference, University of Nottingham, 8--11 July 2012. 9 July: ‘The Inner and the Outer Word: the Pamingers of Passau and the Negotiation of Self within the Religious Conflicts of the Sixteenth Century.’

• God’s Word Questioned: Biblical Criticism and Scriptural Authority in the Dutch Golden Age. University of Utrecht, 30 August--1 September 2012. 30 August: ‘Erasmus, the Johannine Comma and the Politics of Biblical Scholarship.’

• Music and Theology in the European Reformations, KU Leuven, 19--21 September 2012. 20 September: ‘Musicians and confessional division in sixteenth-century Bavaria.’

• Purgatio Spiritus: Sitzung der DFG-Arbeitsgruppe »Ästhetik der Geister«. Universität Tübingen, 5--7 October 2012. 7 October: ‘Music, Spirit and Ecclesiastical Politics in Elizabethan England: John Case and his Defense of Music.’

Activity as research assistant

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• University of Warsaw

• University of Utrecht

Commercial CDs

• Hæc Dies: Easter at Notre Dame, Paris, c1220 (1995; Move MD 3144)

• Music from Heaven (1996; Move MD 3180)

• A Florentine Annunciation (1997; Move MD 3094)

• Kodály: Missa Brevis (1998; Move MD 3201)

• Beatus Vir (2000; Move MD 3220)

• Samuel Barber: Complete Choral Music (2006; Naxos 8.559053)

• Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich

• Fondation Royaumont

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Société Marsile Ficin

• Renaissance Society of America

• European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism

• Committee on the Study of the Reformation in Poland and East-Central Europe (University of Warsaw)

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