2024 Roland Jackson Memorial Fund Grants

Project Title: Analysis as Expressive Interpretation in Mozart’s Chamber Music

Dorian Bandy is associate professor of musicology and historical performance at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music. He is the author of Mozart the Performer: Variations on the Showman’s Art (Chicago, 2023) as well as articles on music from the 17th through 19th centuries. His most recent recording, an embellished reading of Mozart’s string duos, was released in January 2025. He is the most recent recipient of the Marjorie Weston Emerson Award from the Mozart Society of America.

Project Title: Villancicos from the Maya Highlands: Seventeenth-Century Vernacular Sacred Music from the Huehuetenango Manuscript Collection

Paul Feller-Simmons is a PhD candidate in Musicology at Northwestern University, a Presidential Fellow, and a Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research examines early modern music history, focusing on Jewish-Christian musical exchanges, music in the Spanish colonies, and processes of musical othering through interdisciplinary methodologies. Kirstin Haag researches musical practice of colonial-era Spanish American missions, and her current project examines how a collection of early colonial music manuscripts in the European sacred tradition became the center of an Indigenous religious practice in Western Guatemala missions.

Project Title: Theorizing Phrase Structure in Traditional Qin Music

Ruixue Hu is a PhD Candidate in Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music. His research interests include musical forms, Chinese music theory, and music and language. He has presented at various national and international conferences.