Carolyn Guzski, Ph.D.

B.M., Peabody Conservatory

M.M., The Juilliard School

Ph.D., City University of New York

Carolyn Guzski joined the faculty of Buffalo State University in the 2009-2010 academic year as a musicologist with research interests in American music, opera, and national cultural institutions during the Progressive Era. A recipient of the Adrienne Fried Block Fellowship of the Society for American Music, a University of Texas-Austin Ransom Center Fellowship, and a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society, she has presented papers at annual meetings of the American Musicological Society and at McGill, Oxford, and Boston universities. Publications include contributions to the 2d edition of The Grove Dictionary of American Music, as well as articles in Saint-Saëns and His World (Bard Music Festival series), Les Cahiers de la Société québécoise de recherche en musique, Princeton University Library Chronicle, and The Hudson Review. Two public exhibits curated for the Metropolitan Opera are available online: Black Voices at the Met (co-curated with Maurice Wheeler), funded by the Ford Foundation, and American Opera at the Met. She received the Ph.D. in musicology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where her dissertation on American opera at the Metropolitan was a winner of the Barry Brook Award, and holds degrees in performance from the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University and The Juilliard School. She previously taught at Hunter College, New York University, and the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College.

As a pianist, Dr. Guzski has performed throughout the United States, and has been heard in New York at Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and the Juilliard Theater. Past seasons have included concerts in Japan, Italy, Switzerland, South Korea, and the Caribbean, as well as broadcasts over RAI television (Italy), WFMT (Chicago), WNCN (New York), and the Voice of America network. As an opera coach, she has participated in seasons of the Florida Grand Opera, the Lake George Opera Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Orvieto Musica festival in the Umbria region of Italy, and has served on the musical staffs of Montclair State College, Hofstra University, and the Mannes College of Music.

Black Voices at the Met

American Opera at the Met

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