Derek Katz
Associate Professor and Vice Chair
Czech music, opera; nationalism and modernism
Director of Graduate Studies/Faculty Graduate Advisor
Music Building #1141
805-893-4354
Articles and essays include "A Turk and a Moravian in Prague: Janacek's Broucek and the Perils of Musical Patriotism" (Janacek and His World, ed. Michael Beckerman. Princeton University Press 2003); "Janacek a tradice" (Hudebn’ veda 1998); "Smetana's Second String Quartet: Voice of Madness or Triumph of Spirit?" (Musical Quarterly, 1997); "The Chamber Music of Dvorak and Smetana" (with Michael Beckerman. Nineteenth Century Chamber Music, ed. Stephen Hefling. Schirmer 1998). Articles for The New York Times, including "So a Composer Met a Woman at a SpaÉ" (July 20, 2003); "Is Jenufa a Heroine or a Sitting Duck?" (January 5, 2003); "Music of Messages, Hidden and Overt" (March 10, 2002); "Two Czech Operas, Rarely Performed" (August 19, 2001); "Reading the Future in Readings of ÔRusalkaÕ" (May 2, 1999). Program essays for the San Francisco Opera, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Bard Festival and the Aspen Music Festival; Pre-concert lectures for Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Bard Festival.
