Rebecca Cypess
Music History
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Rebecca Cypess is active both as a musicologist and performer. She has recently completed her Ph.D. at Yale with a dissertation exploring questions of meaning in early Italian violin music. Her interests range from the French harpsichord school of the seventeenth century to ethnomusicological issues in the Jewish community. She has published articles in the Galpin Society Journal and Early Music, and she has presented papers at meetings of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, the Renaissance Society of America, the Americal Musical Instrument Society, and the Yale Graduate Music Symposium.
Cypess has performed as a harpsichordist at the collections of early instruments at the Royal College of Music and Yale University, and she has organized and lectured at concerts of the Yale Collegium. She especially enjoys concertizing and teaching in ways that combine musicology and performance.
B.A. in Music History and Performance, Cornell University. M. Mus. in Harpsichord Performance, Royal College of Music. M.A. in Bible, Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Yeshiva University. M.A. M.Phil., and Ph.D. (forthcoming) in Music History, Yale University. Music History with Ellen Rosand. Harpsichord studies with Richard Rephann, James Johnstone, Robert Woolley, and Mark Kroll. Modern and early pianos with Malcolm Bilson. Voice with Judith Kellock. Former adjunct faculty of Yale Department of Music and Yale School of Music. Former lecturer at Southern Connecticut State University.