Summer Series 2012

Nixon in China - Stephen Hinton

Stephen Hinton is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, where he has also served as Senior Associate Dean for Humanities & Arts and chairman of the Department of Music. Before moving to Stanford, he taught at Yale University and before that at Technische Universitat Berlin. His publications include The Idea of Gebrauchsmusik; Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera for the Kurt Weill Edition (edited with Edward Harsh); Kurt Weill, Gesammelte Schriften (edited with Jurgen Schebera and issued in 2000 in an expanded second edition); and the edition of the Symphony Mathis der Maler for Paul Hindemith’s Collected works.

He has published widely on many aspects of modern German music history and theory, with contributions to publications such as Handworterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie, New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, and Funkkolleg Musikgeschichte. He has also served as editor of Beethoven Forum. His comprehensive study of Kurt Weill’s works for the musical theater is scheduled for publication by the University of California Press in 2012.

Attila - Alexandra Amati-Camperi

Alexandra Amati-Camperi, originally from Italy, holds a BA/MA in Slavic Studies and Philology from the Università degli Studi di Pisa (Italy), degrees in piano from the Conservatory of Music of Lucca (Italy), and both an MA and a Ph.D. in Musicology from Harvard University.  She has taught at Harvard, UC Davis, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and is presently Professor of Music, Chair of the Performing Arts Department, and Co-coordinator of the Music Program, which she created, at the University of San Francisco.

Her interests include the Italian Renaissance, Italian opera, Feminist criticism, Romantic piano music, and German Baroque choral music. She has published and read papers on Renaissance, operatic, and gender related topics in several journals and conferences. Her book, Philippe Verdelot: Madrigali a sei voci, was published in 2004. The critical edition of Rossini’s 1810 one-act farsa La cambiale di matrimonio for Baerenreiter Verlag is complete, awaiting publication, and she is now working on a book about the presentation and treatment of women in opera, as seen through a few settings of the Orpheus myth, tentatively titled Euridice: The Evolution of the Mythical and Musical Other.

Recent publications include an article on the castrati in feminine roles, one on the first operatic heroines, and one on Sartorio and Aureli’s 1672 opera Orfeo ed Euridice and its relationship to Shakespeare’s Othello.

She has served on the Council of the American Musicological Society, as the President of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Bach Choir, the Chair of the Artistic Advisory Committee of the San Francisco Boys Chorus, and on the Board of Directors of the Lycée Français Lapérouse. She is a professional program annotator and pre-concert lecturer for many Bay Area organizations, including the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Opera and its six Bay Area Guilds, the San Francisco Bach Choir, the San Francisco Boys Chorus, Philharmonia Baroque, and others. She also holds regularly workshops for the San Francisco Opera’s Education Department (for K-8 teachers).