Christopher Reynolds is Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, at the University of California, Davis. He has published much on musical allusion and modeling. His article, “Porgy and Bess: An ‘American Wozzeck',” in the Journal of the Society for American Music, won awards from the AMS and the Kurt Weill Foundation. His most recent book is Wagner, Schumann, and the Lessons of Beethoven’s Ninth. He is currently writing a biography of Carrie Jacobs Bond and a book on musical modeling. His collection of 7000+ songs, books and letters by women songwriters is mostly housed in Shields Library at UC Davis. He has been editor of the AMS Studies in Music monograph series and was a founding editor-in-chief of Beethoven Forum. Reynolds has held visiting professorships at Yale, Stanford, and UC Berkeley, and in Germany at the Universities of Heidelberg and Goettingen. He served as President of the AMS for 2013 and 2014. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Jacquelyn Sholes is Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Rochester. Her first book, Allusion as Narrative Premise in Brahms's Instrumental Music, was published by Indiana University Press in 2018. Her work has also been published in journals including Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 19th-Century Music, and Ad Parnassum, among others, and she has done interdisciplinary work with neuroscientists at MIT resulting in a co-authored publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. With Lewis Lockwood, she served as Acting Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at Boston University, where she remains an affiliate scholar. She serves on the editorial board of College Music Symposium and on the boards of directors of the American Brahms Society and the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association. Her current projects explore narrative and intertextuality and connections between mathematics, science, and technology.
William Horne is an Emeritus professor at Loyola University New Orleans, where he held the Francisco M. Gonzalez M.D. Endowed Professorship. His research, primarily focused on the music of Brahms, has appeared in The Musical Quarterly, Journal of Musicological Research, The Journal of Musicology, NOTES, Brahms Studies, Beethoven Forum, and various essay collections. He is also a composer, whose music may be heard on the Centaur and Blue Griffin labels.
Styra Avins was born and educated in New York City. Past Adjunct Professor of Music History at Drew University and active professional cellist, she holds a BA in Social Studies from the City University of New York, with undergraduate studies in cello at the Juilliard School and an MM degree in Cello from the Manhattan School of Music. Her research centers on Johannes Brahms and his contemporaries, with particular interest in correspondence and other primary documents. Major publications include Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters (OUP, 1997) and chapters contributed to Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performing Style (CUP, 2003), Brahms and His World (Princeton U. Press, 2009), and Brahms in the Home and the Concert Hall (CUP, 2014). Her most recent publication is ‘Myth in Brahms Biography, or What I Learned from Quantum Mechanics’, Fontes Artis Musicae (Vol 63/3). She is a contributing author to two forthcoming books, Rethinking Brahms (OUP) and The Creative Worlds of Joseph Joachim (Boydell & Brewer). Ms. Avins currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Brahms Society.
Daniel Beller-McKenna is Associate Professor of music at the University of New Hampshire, where he has taught since 1998. His scholarship has focused primarily on cultural issues surrounding the music of Johannes Brahms, including the 2004 Brahms and the German Spirit and numerous articles and book chapters. His recent research has focused on nostalgia as an issue in Brahms's works and their reception from the composer's time to the present. He has also published essays on John Lennon and the Rolling Stones, and he is co-editing a volume of essays on the songwriter Townes Van Zandt.
