Holly Roberts, Executive Director

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Holly Roberts, Executive Director

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Musicology, University of Oregon
  • MM Violin Performance, University of Oregon
  • BM Violin Performance, Arizona State University

Honors & Awards

  • Outstanding Graduate Scholar in Music, University of Oregon, 2020
  • Outstanding Graduate Scholar in Musicology, University of Oregon, 2020
  • Dissertation Fellow, Oregon Humanities Center, 2019-2020
  • Graduate Research Award, Oregon Humanities Center, 2018-2019
  • Graduate Award, University of Oregon, 2017-2018
  • Nontraditional Student Award, University of Oregon, 2017-2018
  • College Level Development Grant, Early Music America, 2015-2016

Holly Roberts earned her Ph.D. at the University of Oregon. Her dissertation, Ecstatic Devotion: Musical Rapture and Erotic Death in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Iconography, Operas, and Oratorios, engages the intersection of music with divine love, ecstasy, and death in literature, iconography, and music from the late medieval through the Baroque eras. She has presented her research at the Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, the Renaissance Society of America, the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, and the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music conferences. Her recent publications include the chapter “Divine Love, Death, and Penance in Giovanni Bononcini’s La Conversione di Maddalena,” in I Bononcini da Modena all’Europa (1666–1747), edited by Marc Vanscheeuwijck (Lucca, LIM: 2020); and the article, “The Musical Rapture of Saint Francis of Assisi: Hagiographic Adaptations and Iconographic Influences” Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography vol. XLV/1-2 (2020). Her article, “Martyrdom and the Mythical Phoenix: Quirino Colombani’s Il martirio di Santa Cecilia,” is forthcoming in the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music (2022). Holly also holds degrees in violin performance. She is an active performer on baroque and modern violin, and makes frequent appearances with the Eugene Symphony, the Oregon Bach Festival, and the Oregon Bach Collegium.

PUBLICATIONS

Peer Reviewed

“Martyrdom and the Mythical Phoenix: Quirino Colombani’s Il martirio di Santa Cecilia (Rome, 1701)” (Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, forthcoming 2022)

“The Musical Rapture of Saint Francis of Assisi: Hagiographic Adaptations and Iconographic Influences” Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography vol. XLV/1-2 (2020): 73-86.

“Divine Love, Death, and Penance in Giovanni Bononcini’s La Conversione di Maddalena.” In I Bononcini da Modena all’Europa (1666-1747), edited by Marc Vanscheeuwijck, 203-228. Lucca, LIM: 2020.

Non-Peer Reviewed

Book Review: Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara, by Laurie Stras. Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 24 (2020):187-191.

Italian to English libretto translation; liner notes “La Conversione di Maddalena di Giovanni Bononcini.” CD Liner notes and Italian to English libretto translation. Glossa Music (GDC 920944), 2020.