Anne Swartz

Biography

Anne Swartz is Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Baruch College. She is also a member of the faculty of the Ph.D./D.M.A. Program in Music at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she has taught courses in Russian musical romanticism and modernism. On the undergraduate level her teaching focuses on music of the romantic era and music of the twentieth century, in addition to music introductory courses. Her research interests include Russian and East European romanticism, especially the music of Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and Maria Szymanowska; eighteenth-century women composers; and Russian piano history. Swartz's recent book, Piano Makers in Russia in the Nineteenth Century (Lehigh University Press, 2014; paperback edition, 2016), received research funding from the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She was recently interviewed by the BBC on Chopin's piano and continues to conduct archival research in Russia and Poland. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and chapters in books, and critical musical editions of Szymanowska's keyboard works. She continues to participate as invited lecturer at scholarly conferences in the United States and abroad and has presented lectures in Russian and Polish at the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, St. Petersburg University, the University of Warsaw, and the Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw. Swartz's next book focuses on Maria Wolowska Szymanowska as a ground-breaking feminist, pianist, and Polish cultural ambassador at the Russian court.

For her pioneering work on Russian and East European music Swartz has been awarded fourteen PSC-CUNY grants, and she has received eleven research grants and fellowships from prestigious national agencies, including the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies; and East European Program); the National Endowment for the Humanities; the American Council of Learned Societies; the International Research and Exchanges Board; and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Swartz's public lectures include, "Tchaikovsky and the Piano in St. Petersburg's Gilded Age," in celebration of the 120th anniversary of the opening of Carnegie Hall, a collaborative project with Carnegie Hall, the Mariinsky Theatre, and the New York Public Library; invited co-presenter, with Lambert Orkis, in a lecture and performance event honoring Mstislav Rostropovich's legacy of musical diplomacy, sponsored by the Kennan Institute and the Kennedy Center as part of the National Symphony Orchestra's A Salute to Slava; and an invited public lecture at an international symposium in honor of the Russian ballet tradition and Marius Petipa, "From Bordeaux to Saint Petersburg: Marius Petipa and the 'Russian' ballet," sponsored by UNESCO, the University of Bordeaux, and the Grand-Théâtre de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.

Education

Ph.D., Historical Musicology, University of Pittsburgh

M.A., Historical Musicology, University of Pittsburgh

B.A., Music, Wilson College