Tristan und Isolde Virtual Opera Preview with Derek Katz

Derek Katz is an Associate Professor of Music History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his PhD. He also holds a degree from Harvard, and has studied at The Free University of Berlin on a Fulbright Fellowship. His book Janáček Beyond the Borders was published by the University of Rochester Press in 2009. In addition to a focus on Czech music, his more recent work deals with music and middlebrow culture, émigré musicians, and institutional support for chamber music in the United States in the mid-20th Century. Katz also works extensively in public musicology and audience enhancement. He has written for The New York Times, the San Francisco Opera, the Teatro Real Madrid, and the Bavarian State Opera, and spoken at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. He also collaborates with the San Francisco Opera Guild, the Ives Collective and the Hausmann Quartet. He is an enthusiastic amateur violist and chamber music player.

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