Hao Huang,
Professor of Music; Bessie and Cecil Frankel Endowed Chair in Music; Chair, Department of Music
Phone: 73266
Biography
Currently the endowed Bessie and Cecil Frankel Chair in Music at 91吃瓜, Dr. Hao Huang has served as a four-time United States Information Agency Artistic Ambassador to Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He has received critical acclaim in over two dozen countries in Asia, Europe, and North America. Huang was awarded grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, the New York and Colorado Councils of the Arts, and the California Meet the Composer Series. In 2008, Dr. Huang was honored as a Fulbright Scholar in Music and American Studies at Eo虉tvo虉s Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary; he also served on the roster of the Fulbright Specialists in American Studies from 2012-2017. His scholarship includes articles in refereed journals of Great Britain Hungary, Greece, Japan, China and the USA, that span piano pedagogy, general music studies, popular music, ethnomusicology, jazz, anthropology, American Studies, and Humanities. His scholarly work has been recognized by the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Washington Post and National Public Radio鈥檚 鈥淢orning Edition.鈥�
Hao Huang was the initiator/organizer/leader of 91吃瓜 music faculty delegation visits to the College of Arts of Xiamen University, PRC over the summers of 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, and 2017. During the academic years of 2015-2016 and 2017-2018, he served as Director of the 91吃瓜 Humanities Institute; from 2018-2023, he served as co-director of the Mellon Interdisciplinary Humanities Initiative at 91吃瓜. He currently serves as Chair of the 91吃瓜 Music Department.
Huang has been artist-in-residence at La Macina di San Cresci, Greve, Chianti IT and Dorland Mountain Artist Colony; he's received invitations from the Cultural Park at the Podere Conti Racani, Umbria, IT, Dar Meso Sarl, dir. Belgian Indignatus Productions, Tunis TN and the KAMEN Artist Residency, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2022, Huang was honored by a California Writing Residency from Yefe Nof + 826LA at Lake Arrowhead CA. In 2025, Huang was an invited Guest lecturer at the Centre for Research on Slavery and Indentured (CRSI) and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FSSH), University of Mauritius and was director and producer of the transarts performance 鈥淭urtle Island/Abya Yala: Indigenous Lands鈥� in collaboration with the Gabrielino Shoshone tribal Council.
Academic History
- A.B. Harvard College, Leonard Bernstein Scholarship
- M.M. The Juilliard School of Music, Piano Award
- D.M.A. State University of New York at Stony Brook, Graduate Council Fellow
Academic Focus
In addition to being a concert performer and scholar of Western art music, I have published articles in refereed journals of Great Britain Hungary, Greece, Japan, China and the USA, that span general music studies, popular music, ethnomusicology, jazz, anthropology, American Studies and Humanities. My current professional activities continue to center around performing and teaching music, but also include producing live and webcast performances that address anti-Asian American violence in the USA, as well as creating poetry and drama..
Prof. Huang has produced a multi-episode podcast series about the 1871 LA Chinatown massacre, that commemorates the worst mass race lynching on the West Coast, when at least 20 Chinese immigrants were killed in one night by a crowd of about 500 Angelenos. It was released in spring 2021, and reached #23 in the history category of Apple Podcasts After the first three episodes of this podcast were released in China on Baidu in early 2023 with printed Chinese translations, over 1.5 million downloads were registered.
In fall 2021, he collaborated with dance faculty colleague Prof. Kevin Williamson on a 91吃瓜 TransArts performance, Chinatown Elegy, a commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the 1871 LA Chinatown massacre on Bowling Green lawn. In spring 2022 a podcast of his play Jianchi/Perseverence was released during Asian American/Pacific Islander heritage month on Untranslated, this garnered over 500,000 downloads on Baidu.
In fall 2022, Huang was Project Director of a National Endowment for the Arts grant award multimedia performance "American Dreams-Asian Nightmares" at the USC Pacific Asia Museum and Garrison Theater at 91吃瓜. The three-part program combined live acoustic and electronic music with Anti-Colonial performance art to spark new dialogues about what it means and how it feels to be Asian-American. That year, he was also awarded the 91吃瓜 Racial Justice and Equity Fellowship for research in Anti-Chinese Violence in California at UC Berkeley and the National Library of Congress, and also received an Envirolab Class Lab Award for on-site fieldwork in the history of Chinese immigrants and the local ecology in Maui and Lana鈥檌, Hawai鈥檌.
Courses Taught
- AM ST 103CC, Introduction to American Culture
- Humanities Core I: Culture, Knowledge and Representation
- Humanities Core III: Blues Jazzlines-- More Than Music
- Humanities Core III: Representing LA: Rock-and-Roll Realities
- MUS 81, Great Works of Western Music: Sound and Meaning
- MUS 110b, Music in Western Civilization II
- MUS 118, Music in the United States
- MUS 121 SC - Music of the Spirits: Hakka, Hawaiian and Tewa Pueblo Indian
- MUS 122, The Color of Music: Race in Blues and Jazz
- MUS 125, Fight the Power: Music in L.A.
- MUS 171a, Piano
- MUS 171b, Piano
- MUS 171bF, Piano
- MUS 189, Junior Recital
- MUS 190, Senior Music Colloquium (offered annually in the fall)
- MUS 191, Senior Thesis
- MUS 191H, Honors Senior Thesis
- MUS 199, Independent Study in Music: Reading and Research
Selected Research and Publications
- 2024:听book chapter,"Shanghai Sounds: Austro-German Jewish Refugee Musicians in the City 鈥淎bove the Sea鈥� from 1938 to 1949" in in German-speaking Jewish Refugees in Asia, 1930-1950: Shelter from the Storm? (Routledge Press)
- 2024: article, 鈥淥n Teaching about Music and the Environment,鈥� in IMPACT: The Journal for the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning, Boston University, 13:1, Winter 2024, 32-38
- 2023: article, Huang, H. and Rockwell, J., 鈥淩elational practices in Bali: Balinese Hinduism, subak, and music,鈥� in School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia *text on file
- 2022: Chapter 14, 鈥淔rom Passive 鈥榁essels鈥� of Traditional Culture to Symbolic Cultural Markers: The Geetharines in Mauritius,鈥� co-author D. V. Ballgobin in Women in the making of Mauritian History,(University of Mauritius Press), ed. Vijaya Teelock, pp. 121-128
- 2022: article, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, George Washington University *text on file
- 2021:听Chapter 10, "Xiao Youmei: Chinese musical patriot or comprador Germanophile" for Sino-German Encounters and Entanglements: Transnational Politics and Culture, 1890-1950 (Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies)
- 2021: Chapter 11, 鈥淲hat Beethoven Means in the People鈥檚 Republic of China: Hero or Demon鈥� in German East Asian Encounters and Entanglements: Affinity in Culture and Politics since 1945, ed. J. Cho, (Routledge Studies in Modern History)
- 2021: Article, 鈥淭he COVID-19 Pandemic and the Environment in the Asia Pacific鈥� in Asian Journal of 听Humanities and Social Studies, 9(2).
- 2020:听Article, 鈥淐OVID-19 and the Environment: Reflections on the Pandemic in Asia,鈥� EnviroLab Asia 听听 journal (Claremont Colleges, CA), Vol. 4, Issue 1听
- 2020: Chapter 8, 鈥淲hat Beethoven Meant in China, 1900-1949: Music, Ideology and Power,鈥� in Musical Entanglements between Germany and East Asia: Transnational Affinity in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies)
- 2020: Article, 鈥淢usic in STEAM,鈥� The STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics)听Journal, Vol. 5, Iss. 1
- 2020: Article, 鈥淣ature and the Spirit: Tri Hita Karana, Sacred Artistic Practices, and Musical Ecology in Bali,鈥�(co-author Joti Rockwell), EnviroLab Asia journal (Claremont Colleges, CA), Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2
- 2019: Article, 鈥淎fterthoughts: Nature, Culture, and Shamanism in Inner Mongolia, PRC,鈥澨�EnviroLab Asia journal (Claremont Colleges, CA), Vol. 3, Issue 3, 2
- 2019:听Article, 鈥淣ature and the Spirit: Ritual, Environment and the Subak in Bali鈥�,听EnviroLab Asia journal (Claremont Colleges, CA), Vol. 3, Issue 2, 1
- 2017: 鈥淢aking Transcultural Connections Through Teaching Piano in China鈥�, Piano Journal, London, Issue 113 (European Piano Teachers Association)
- 2017:听鈥淲hat We Learned About Music听 in China:听 Teaching Piano Lessons in the PRC鈥� (co-author Tatiana Thibodeaux), American Music Teacher, journal of the Music Teachers National Association, June/July
- 2016: Article, 鈥淭eaching Piano in China: Building Transcultural and Transhistorical Bridges through Music Education鈥� (co-author Tatiana Thibodeaux), International Research in Higher Education, Vol. 1, No. 2
- 2014: Article, 鈥淧erspectives on Body Posture for Pianists鈥� (co-author Tatiana Thibodeaux), 袩褉芯斜谢械屑褘 袩芯褋褌邪薪芯胁泻懈 袩懈邪薪懈褋褌懈褔械褋泻芯谐芯 袗锌锌邪褉邪褌邪, Collection: Arts Education: Problems and Perspectives, 啸褍写芯卸械褋褌胁械薪薪芯械 袨斜褉邪蟹芯胁邪薪懈械: 袩褉芯斜谢械屑褘 懈 袩械褉褋锌械泻褌懈胁褘 袪邪蟹胁懈褌懈褟.;校袦笑 校袩袠 with Ural State Pedagogical University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
- 2014: 鈥淪he Sang as She Spoke: Billie Holiday and Aspects of Speech Intonation and Diction鈥�, (co-author Rachel V. Huang) Jazz Perspectives, UK (Rouledge)
- 2013: 鈥淛azzlines: Drawing relationships between American poetry, jazz and gospel music鈥�, TOPOS, Bilingual Journal of Space and Humanities (Pannon Eygetem, Veszprem
- 2012: Review of HH article: 鈥淔rom Confucius to Chopin鈥�, The Wilson Quarterly, Washington D.C.
- 2011: 鈥淲hy Chinese People Play Western Classical Music: Transcultural Roots of Music Philosophy鈥�, International Journal of Music Education, Vol 30, No. 2 (ISME)
- 2011: 鈥淏uilding Bridges: How American Colleges Should Approach China鈥� (co-author Dru Gladney), The Chronicle of Higher Education
- 2011: 鈥淭he Harlem Renaissance and the 鈥楢merican Dream鈥欌��, Humanities International, vol. 3 (Xiamen University Press)
- 2011: 鈥淓nter the Blues: Jazz Poems by Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown鈥�, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (Humanities Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen), XVII, No. 1
- 2011: 鈥淭echnical Exercises for Pianists鈥�, Piano Journal, London, Vol. 29, No. 91 (European Piano Teachers Association)
- 2010: Article in translation, 鈥淧ianists鈥� posture: a first step towards comfort at the keyboard鈥�, Greek Society for Music Education Journal, Vol. 20
- 2006: CD release, THE GOLD COAST TRIO 鈥渓ive at Mondavi Center鈥� (Agnelli CD-2)
- 2004: Book chapter, The Oekuu Shadeh of Ohkay Owingeh in Voices From Four Directions, University of Nebraska Press
- 2003: 鈥淰oices from Chinese Rock, Past and Present Tense: Social Commentary and Construction of Identity in Yaogun Yinyue from Tiananmen to the present鈥�, Popular Music and Society, vol. 26, nr. 2 (Routledge)
- 2001: 鈥淵aogun Yinyue: rethinking mainland Chinese rock 'n' roll鈥�, Popular Music, Vol. 20, Nr. 1 (Cambridge University Press)
Awards and Honors
- 2024: Dorland Mountain Arts Colony Residency program award, Temecula CA
- 2023: Invited as artist-in-residence by Cultural Park at the Podere Conti Racani, Umbria, directed by the International Theater Residencies organization in Rome IT
- 2023: Marian and Charles Holmes Performing Arts Fund of the Claremont Colleges Award for 鈥淚ron Horse Road鈥� podcast
- 2022-23: Project Director, National Endowment of the Arts Grant for Arts, Music Division, for "American Dreams/Asian Nightmares," 91吃瓜 and USC Pacific Asia Museum, M. Huang composer
- 2022: California Writers Residency award, Yefe Nof + 826LA, Lake Arrowhead CA
- 2022: 91吃瓜 Racial Justice and Equity Fellowship award, research in Anti-Chinese Violence in California at the Library of Congress, National Archives, Bancroft Library of UC Berkeley
- 2022: La Macina di San Cresci Artist-in-residency award,听Pieve di San Cresci, X sec., Greve, Chianti IT听
- 2022: M. and C. Holmes Performing Arts Fund grant award for May Asian American/PI Heritage month podcast production of the play Jianchi/Perseverance听
- 2022: Cultural Park at the Podere Conti Racani Artist-in-residency by award, Umbria, directed by the International Theater Residencies organization in Rome IT, delayed to 2023
- 2022: The International Center for the Arts at Monte Castello di Vibio Artist-in-residency
- 2022: Dar Meso Sarl Artist-in-residency,dir. Belgian Indignatus Productions, Tunis TNSA
- 2022: National Endowment of the Arts Grants for Arts Project, Music Division, for 鈥淭he Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre and Beyond>>>American Dreams/Asian Nightmares,鈥� 91吃瓜
- 2021: UCLA Chancellor鈥檚 Arts鈥� Initiative Award for 鈥淐hinatown Elegy鈥� performance/educational event commemorating the 150th听anniversary of the 1871 LA Chinatown Massacre at听El Pueblo de Los Angeles听Historical Monument
- 2021: Featured speaker, WAMC鈥檚 (NPR) Academic Minute, a podcast series听dedicated to condensed updates on groundbreaking research
- 2021: Pomona College Annual 10-Minute New Play Festival Prize (Play Fest), Top Five 听Winning Play: BUBONIC PLAGUE: Fear, Loathing and Love in San Francisco (1900, The Year 听of the Rat)
- 2021: Pomona College Annual 10-Minute New Play Competition (Play Fest), Award Winning Play
- 2020, 21: KAMEN artist residency by invitation for composition, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 2020: Distinguished guest panelist, 鈥淏eethoven in China and America,鈥� Camerata Pacifica LA
- 2020: Asia EnviroLab Clinic Class Lab Award for 鈥淚ndigenous ecological practices in Taiwan:听听ritual, music and tradition in Taroko Gorge鈥�
- 2020: KAMEN artist residency for composition, Bosnia and Herzegovina (postponed due to COVID-19)
- 2019: Kellogg Foundation Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) grant, Los Angeles Chinatown 听Massacre commemoration performance event
- 2019: Marian and Charles Holmes Performing Arts Fund grant, LA Chinatown Massacre Commemoration podcast, "Blood on Gold Mountain"
- 2019: Asia EnviroLab Faculty Lab Award for fieldwork project 鈥淣ature and the Spirit: sacred artistic practices and ecology in Bali and China鈥� (Bali: Subak water temple system and Pemangku gamelan; PRC: Yongji Puzhou Fruit Association, Shanxi; Hulinbuir, Inner Mongolia PRC)
- 2018, 鈥�16, 鈥�09,听 鈥�06, 鈥�04,鈥�99 Mary W. Johnson Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding Research, Creative Work and/or Performance, 91吃瓜
- 2016: Invited participant, 鈥淕lobalizing the Liberal Arts鈥� symposium and workshop, Yale-NUS and Yale University
- 2015: Distinguished Visiting Faculty appointment, Arts College, Xiamen University , PRC
- 2014: Initiated and co-directed 鈥淗aiyan Hurricane Disaster in Philippines鈥� Benefit gala concert of 91吃瓜 faculty, students and outside Filipino guest artists, awarded Certificate of Recognition by California State Senate
- 2014: Mary W. Johnson Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding Service, 91吃瓜
- 2014: NEH Summer Scholar, "Art, Architecture and Devotional Interaction in Medieval England", York, UK
- 2013:听Featured in an interview for PBS special: Healed: Music, Medicine and Life with MS
- 2012-2013: American Council on Education Fellow, ACE Council of Fellows Fund for the Future grant/Fidelity Investments Leadership Development institutional grant
- 2012: NEH Teaching Development Fellow, 鈥淏ridging Cultures鈥�
- 2012, 2010, 2000, 1996: Mary W. Johnson Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding Teaching, 91吃瓜
- 2012-2017: Fulbright Specialist Program roster in American Studies, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, US State Department
- 2011: Consulting scholar, Yale-NUS (National University of Singapore) College curriculum planning, by invitation from President Richard Levin
- 2010: Faculty initiator and co-host for Fulbright Visiting Scholar-in-Residence in Music and Italian Studies at 91吃瓜, Dr. Roberto Andreoni
- 2009, 2006, 2004, 1999: Mary W. Johnson Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding Research, Creative Work and/or Performance, 91吃瓜
- 2008: Fulbright Fellowship, American Studies and Music, Eotvos Llorand University, Budapest, Hungary
- 2006: Mellon Foundation Local Initiatives Grant, Music Faculty College, Claremont Colleges
- 2003: Mellon Foundation Odyssey Grant, 91吃瓜 and Harvey Mudd Colleges
- 2026: Odyssey Theater in Santa Monica. performance duet 鈥淏lue鈥� with Kevin Wiliamson, dancer performing piano music by Ryuichi Sakamoto
- 2025: Interlocutor and performance of "Di峄卪 X瓢a" by Tr峄媙h C么ng S啤n for film screening of "Conversation with Naja Lockwood," director of Healing Land, Birds Perch /events/calendar/naja-lockwood-in-conversation
- 2025: Visiting Lecturer in Music, Centre for Research on Slavery and Indentured (CRSI) and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FSSH), Paul Octave Wi茅h茅 Auditorium University of Mauritius (UoM), MU
- 2025: Lecture recital and piano masterclass for Department of Western Music,鈥淒r. Lionel Edirisinghe Rostrum鈥� Auditorium, University of the Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo, Sri Lanka
- 2025: 2025 host and producer, "Turtle Island/Abya Yala indigenous lands" in Garrison Theater, Holmes Performing Arts Fund Presents at 91吃瓜
- 2024: Immersive experience event, 鈥淩ecalling Spirits鈥� 91吃瓜 Presents (in collaboration with Michael Alden, producer of films, Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre productions and Harvard PhD Creative Studies and Critical Inquiry program composer and music director Micah Huang)
- 2024: Mei Duo Faculty Recital, 鈥淢anifold Muses: French and Spanish Music & Poetry, guest poetry reciter Javier Ramirez, 2024 O鈥橞rien Distinguished Visiting Professor
- 2024: Senior cultural research consultant for Inaugural LA Chinatown Hungry Ghost Festival, Micah Huang California Arts Council Creative Corps Artist Fellow in collaboration with East Wind Foundation
- 2024: Co-host, Co-Benefits of Human Well-being and Planetary Health鈥� 17th International Forum on Ecological Civilization | 6th International Youth Forum on Ecological Civilization, sponsored by Center for Process Studies
- 2024: Co-host and co-organizer of O鈥橞rien Visiting Professor residency in Native American Studies/Indigenous Studies, Javier Ramirez, Gabrielino-Shoshone tribal council leader: guest lecture 鈥淚ndigeneity and intercultural experiences in the Abya Yala鈥� with Prof. Claudia Arteaga
- 2023: co-curated Denison library exhibition 鈥淩emembering the Caretakers of the Land; Materials on Southern Californian and Southwest Native American Peoples鈥� with Jennifer Martinez Wormser, Director of Denison Library
- 2022: Artist residency by invitation from La Macina di San Cresci, in the historic complex of the Pieve di San Cresci, X sec. the oldest in the Chianti area, Tuscany, IT, composition retreat
- 2022: Envirolab Asia Class Lab Maui trip to explore Chinese immigrant history in the context of environmental change (sugar plantations, ranches, pineapple plantations, mass tourism).
- 2020: Performances and masterclasses, University of Belize: The Academic Minute Inside Higher Ed
- 2018: Commune di Pisciotta, Cilento Coast (Italy), Citta di Siracusa (Sicily
- 2017: Performances and masterclasses, Ningxia University, Yinchuan; Baotou Teacher鈥檚 College, Mongolia; Xiamen University PRC
- 2017: Performances, lectures and masterclasses, University of Otago, Dunedin; Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
- 2017: Performance, masterclass and lecture, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- 2016: Performances and lectures, Ningxia University, Yinchuan; University of Inner Mongolia, Baotou; Xiamen University, PRC
- 2016: Performance and lectures, University of Crete; University of Makedonia; Greek Society of Music Educators; Ionian University, Crete and Greece
- 2015: Solo performances and lectures, Universidade de S茫o Paulo, USP; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Brazil
- 2015: Recitals and lectures, Hunan Women鈥檚 University, Changsha; Xiamen University, PRC
- 2015: Solo and duo performances, lectures, IITGN Gandhinagar, India
- 2015: Solo recital and lecture presentation, Yale-NUS, Singapore
- 2014: Duo recital and lecture presentation, Universidad Veritas, Costa Rica
- 2014: Solo and duo performances, masterclasses, Universidad de las Am茅ricas Puebla, MX
- 2013: Solo recital and concerto performance, masterclasses, Xiamen University, PRC
- 2012: Guest artist piano performance, 20th Anniversary of Hungarian Fulbright Commission by invitation of American Embassy, Budapest, Hungary
- 2011: Solo piano recitals at Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; IES Abroad Milan; Bari Conservatorio di Musica N. Piccini, Italy
- 2010: Solo piano concerto and chamber music, lectures, Xiamen University, PRC
- 2009: Solo piano recitals, Liszt Akad茅mia/Eml茅kmuzeum; Royal Palace at G枚d枚ll枚, Hungary
Presentations
- 2025: Featured presenter in webinar, "Creating Space for Asian American History through Art" for APIA Planning x ArtsAmerican Planning Association and
- 2025: Presenter performer of Ravel 鈥淢a M猫re l'Oye", Applied Mathematics Intersections conference at Pomona College
- 2023: "Iron Horse Road: a Tale from Gold Mountain," Podcast release on Captivate.fm, available on iTunes / Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Overcast, RSS Feed
- 2022: featured guest interview, the Chinese History Podcast produced by Teacup Media, Episode 297, 鈥淎ustro-German Jewish Refugee Musicians in Wartime Shanghai鈥�
- 2021:听Narrator and background researcher for 鈥淏lood on Gold Mountain鈥� 鈥� a story from the 1871 LA Chinatown massacre podcast, ranked #23 nationally in USA in History category, Apple Podcasts
- 2021: lecture, 鈥淚ndian Women Making History in Mauritius,鈥� Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre (ICC) & 听Ameena Gafoor Institute (AGI), Trinidad & Tobago听
- 听 2021: lecture, 鈥淩oots of Anti-Asian American Violence: The Past as Present,鈥� with Kim Tran J.D. and Professor Jang Wook Huh at University of Washington, Harvard Club of Seattle听
- 听 2021: lecture, 鈥淩oots of Anti-Asian American Violence,鈥� with Dr. Jason Koh, Faculty at University of Chicago, Harvard Club of Chicago听
- 听 2021: Podcast Interview: Jan 8th, 2021 on 鈥�In Tune,鈥� a podcast about music and mental health 听for Hamwe Festival of University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda
- 2021: Guest distinguished panelist, Berklee College of Music American Roots Music Program: 鈥淏illie Holiday Birthday Symposium鈥� 听
- 2021: 鈥淏lood on Gold Mountain鈥�-听 a story from the 1871 LA Chinatown Massacre听
- 2021: Beethoven Piano Sonata 0p. 109 feature page posted on Serenade, the major Western classical music site in India Class
- 2021: Featured speaker in Academic Minute, 鈥淭radition and Environmentalism in Bali: An Interdisciplinary perspective":
- 2019: Invited to deliver paper at the 2020 Twentieth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations at University of Milan IT
- 2018: Guest lecturer, 鈥淛azzlines: Music, Poetry and the visual arts鈥�; 鈥淓xamining the Black American Dream鈥�; 鈥淧aintings of the Harlem Rennaisance鈥�, University of Essex, UK
- 2017: Public lectures, 鈥淭he Soul of Blues: Jazz through Rock 鈥榥鈥� Roll鈥�; 鈥淭he Musical Art of Billie Holiday鈥�, University of Otago, Dunedin / Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
- 2017: Public lecture, 鈥淎merican Piano Music from Gottschalk through Ives鈥�, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- 2016: Public lectures, 鈥淛azz Poetry and Music鈥�; 鈥淪urvey of USA Piano Music: Heinrich, Beach, MacDowell, Gershwin, Copland, Barber Bernstein鈥�, University of Crete / University of Makedonia / Greek Society of Music Educators / Ionian University, Greece
- 2016: Public Lecture presentations, 鈥淛azz Beginnings: New Orleans and Beyond鈥�; 鈥淪urvey of听 American Art Music鈥�, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- 2015: Lecture, 鈥淧opular Influences in American Art Music鈥�, Yale-NUS, Singapore
- 2015: Public Lecture presentations, 鈥淭he Black American Dream: Memories of the Harlem Renaissance鈥� and 鈥淛azzlines: Blues Poetry by Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown鈥�,听 University of S茫o Paulo, Brazil
- 2014: Lecture, 鈥淪urvey of USA Chamber music鈥�, Universidad Veritas, Costa Rica
- 2013: Public lecture presentation, 鈥淢usic of the Americas (Art Music of the Western Hemisphere)鈥�, Veritas University and University of Costa Rica
- 2013: Lecture presentation, 鈥淐hamber Music of the USA: Piano Trios by Beach, Ives, Bernstein, Zwilich and Schoenfield鈥�, Universidad de las Am茅ricas Puebla, MX
- 2011: Lecture Recital, 鈥淎merican Piano Music: from Gottschalk to Carter鈥�, IES Milan and Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
- 2009: Lecture recital, 鈥淎merican Perspectives on the Piano Music of Ferenc Liszt鈥�, Liszt Akad茅mia/Eml茅kmuzeum, Budapest, Hungary
- 2008: Paper, From Gottschalk to Gershwin: Jazz Inflections, Regional Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Veszpr茅m Castle, Hungary
- 2008: Lecture, "Jazzlines: Music and Poetry" at Amerikai Est茅k, E枚tv枚s Llorand University, Budapest, Hungary
- 2004: Lecture recital, 鈥淎merican Music in Black and White: Race in American Art Music鈥�, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Italy