 | Ellen Rosand |
Ellen Rosand, the newly appointed George A. Saden Professor of Music,
Rosand is known for introducing new ways of understanding 17th-century music and opera, and her studies of the Venetian opera have reshaped the subject. Her undergraduate "Introduction to Opera" course has turned several generations of Yale students into opera aficionados, and she also has co-taught on both the undergraduate and graduate levels with members of the Italian and comparative literature departments.
In addition to her books, "Opera in 17th-Century Venice: the Creation of a Genre" and the forthcoming "Monteverdi's Venetian Trilogy: the Late Operas," Rosand edited "Orfeo" by Antonio Sartorio and Aurelio Aureli, "I sacroi musicali affetti" by Barbara Strozzi and the 14-volume "Garland Library of the History of Western Music." Her other publications include articles on Barbara Strozzi, Monteverdi, Cavalli, Vivaldi, Handel and music in 16th-century Venice.
A graduate of Vassar College, Rosand earned her M.A. at Harvard University and her Ph.D. at New York University. She taught briefly at Brooklyn College, Hunter College and New York University before joining the faculty at Rutgers University in 1977. She served on the faculty there until 1992, when she came to Yale after serving for a year here as a visiting professor of music. She served as chair of the University's Department of Music 1995-1998.
Rosand, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. In December 2006, she was chosen as one of four recipients of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Awards. The awards, amounting to as much as $1.5 million, honor scholars who have made significant contributions to humanistic inquiry and enable the awardees to teach and do research under especially favorable conditions while enlarging opportunities for scholarship and teaching at the academic institutions with which they are affiliated. (See related story.)
The Yale musicologist has served as president of the American Musicological Society and as editor-in-chief of the society's journal. She currently is a member of the society's board of directors. She also has served on the editorial boards of a number of music and opera journals, including a current post on the board of Cambridge Studies in Opera. She is the vice president of the board of directors of the American Handel Society and serves on the National Council of the Glimmerglass Opera.
T H I S
Ellen Rosand is designated
as George A. Saden Professor
is a noted scholar of Italian music and poetry, music of the Baroque period, Italian opera, music of Venice, Handel and opera criticism.
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