David Black BMus (Hons) Melb MA PhD Harvard AMusA

Senior Research Fellow, Homerton College, Cambridge University

dib23@cam.ac.uk Homerton College, Hills Rd, Cambridge CB2 8PH

I. Education

II. Publications and Selected Papers

III. Teaching & Professional Activities

IV. Prizes and Scholarships

V. Research Interests

EDUCATION

2001

BMus (Hons), University of Melbourne.

2004

MA (Historical Musicology), Harvard University.

2007

Ph.D. (Historical Musicology), Harvard University.

Dissertation: Mozart and the Practice of Sacred Music, 1781-91.

Advisor: Christoph Wolff.

PUBLICATIONS AND SELECTED PAPERS

2005

“Mozartrezeption in den USA.” Das Mozart-Lexicon, edited by Gernot Gruber and Joachim Brügge. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag. 627-29.

“Lieder der Neuen Religion: Mozart and Reform Catholicism.”

[Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship, Princeton University.]

“Mozart and St Stephen’s Cathedral: New Documentary Evidence.”

[Annual Conference of the American Musicological Society, Washington DC.]

Interview for documentary In Search of Mozart (BBC Radio 3).

2006

“Mozarts Anstellung am Stephansdom.” Acta Mozartiana 53: 109-26.

2007

(with Christoph Wolff) “Quellen.” Requiem: Kritische Bericht. Neue Mozart Ausgabe I/1/2. Kassel: Bärenreiter. 15-31.

Review of Stanley Sadie, Mozart: The Early Years, 1756-80. Music & Letters 88: 489-92.

Review of Ulrich Konrad et al., Mozart – Briefe und Aufzeichnungen: Supplement. Eighteenth-Century Music 4: 141-42.

“Mozart and the Hofkapelle: On the Origins of the Coronation Mass.”

[Invited Colloquium, Institute of Advanced Musical Studies, King’s College London.]

“Articulations of the Sacred in Mozart’s Masonic Music.”

[Conference of the International Musicological Society, Zurich.]

2008

“Mozart and Musical Discipline at the Waisenhaus.” Mozart-Jahrbuch 2006. Kassel: Bärenreiter. 17-33.

“Colloquy: Finishing Mozart’s Requiem.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 61 (3): 596-600.

“Mozart’s Late Dance Music and Carnival Culture in Eighteenth-Century Vienna.”

[Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association, Aberdeen.]

“The Early History of Mozart’s Requiem.”

[Annual Conference of the American Musicological Society, Nashville.]

2009

“Personalia,” “Chronology,” “Institutions.” The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music, edited by Simon Keefe. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 689-802.

Review of Sean Gallagher and Thomas F. Kelly (eds.) The Century of Bach and Mozart. Eighteenth-Century Music 6: 257-60.

Review of Bach Collegium Japan: Bach Cantatas Vols. 36-43. Early Music 37: 697-99.

“Mozart’s Requiem: Some New Discoveries.” [Invited Colloquium, Unfinished Fascination: Mozart’s Requiem. Conservatorium van Amsterdam.]

2010

“Mozart and Viennese Sacred Music: Some New Discoveries.” Mozart, Marcos Portugal and Their Time, edited by David Cranmer. Lisbon: Edições Colibri. 109-119.

“Some ‘New’ Bach Documents in Eighteenth-Century Printed Sources.” [Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, Queen’s University, Belfast.]

2011

Mozart: Requiem KV 626. Frankfurt and New York: Edition Peters, in proofs

Review of Bach Collegium Japan: Bach Cantatas Vols. 45-47 et al. Early Music 39, forthcoming.

Programme Notes for Salzburg Mozartwoche (2006 – present)

TEACHING & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1998-2001 Trinity College, University of Melbourne

Organ Scholar (Senior in 2001) and Tutor in Music

2002-04 Harvard University

Tutor in Music, Adams House

Research Assistant, C. P. E. Bach: The Complete Works

Organ Scholar, Marsh Chapel, Boston University

2003-04 Harvard University

Teaching Fellow

Papers taught:

First Nights: Five Performance Premieres

Bach in His Time and through the Centuries

Mozart: The Late Years, 1787-91

2006-present Homerton College, University of Cambridge

Junior Research Fellow (2006-10), Director of Music (2009–11), Senior Research Fellow (2011–present)

Lecture Course for Faculty of Music:

The Cantatas of J. S. Bach (new, devised and taught 2008-09/09-10)

Supervisions:

Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue

Introduction to Early Sacred Music, c. 1400-c.1600

Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music

Thesis supervision: Bach and Debussy Preludes, Edition of Telemann Cantata, History of Organ Notation, Cadenzas to Mozart’s Piano Concerto K. 466, Haydn/Michel Sonatas, Benda Ornamentation, History of William Blake Settings, Tintinnabuli Technique of Arvo Pärt

Founder and director, Charter Choir of Homerton College.

Performer on organ, harpsichord, piano (Associate Diploma, Australian Music Examinations Board).

Member of Homerton College I.T. Committee.