Bradley Strauchen-Scherer Appointed Director-at-Large

The AMS Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Bradley Strauchen-Scherer to the role of Director-at-Large. She will serve as Director-at-Large on the AMS Board of Directors from November 2026 through October 2029.

Dr. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer is Curator in the Department of Musical Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she led the renovation of the five permanent music galleries. She is the curator of Musical Bodies, a major marquee exhibition on view at the Met during summer/fall 2026. Through her exhibitions, teaching, and writing, Bradley pushes the boundaries of traditional organology and explores the intersections of music, instruments, art, and society. She has written on topics ranging from wind instruments to timbre, historically informed performance, concert life in nineteenth-century London, collections history, and museology. Publications include contributions to the Grove dictionaries, articles in various journals, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues, and the books Musical Bodies and Musical Instruments: Highlights of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bradley has held various positions in the American Musical Instrument Society, the Historic Brass Society, and ICOM Music. She currently serves on the boards of the Galpin Society and the American Classical Orchestra.

Bradley received her PhD from the University of Oxford and is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied both historical and modern French horn performance. She is a frequent guest lecturer in organology and has supervised numerous research students and fellows. Before moving to New York, Bradley served as Deputy Keeper of Musical Instruments at the Horniman Museum in London and as lecturer in the history of performance practice at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Bradley is honored to have been appointed as an AMS Director-at-Large and looks forward to advancing the Society’s mission both within the academy and among musicologists and academics working outside of colleges and universities.