Elizabeth Weinfield

Elizabeth Weinfield is a professor of Historical Musicology at The Juilliard School in New York whose research explores the relationships among gender, performance, and race in the early modern period. She holds a PhD in historical musicology from the Graduate Center, CUNY, and a Master’s in Music from Oxford. Artistic director of the ensemble, Sonnambula, recently ensemble-in-residence at NYC's Met Cloisters, she has designed site-specific concerts at museums around the country, including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the National Gallery of Art, the Hispanic Society of America, and others. Her recording of the music of 17th-century composer, Leonora Duarte (Centaur Records, 2019), won the American Musicological Society’s Jewish Studies award. She is working on her first book, a monograph on Duarte that investigates music’s role in the convergence of business and culture in the early modern domestic space.