christine wisch Program Annotator

Christine Wisch holds a PhD in musicology with a minor in ethnomusicology Her work as a musicologist focuses on early nineteenth-century Spanish classical music and issues of nationalism, patronage, and identity She is the recipient of a 2019 Dissertation Fellowship from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi for her in-progress dissertation, “Politics, Patronage, and Music in 1830s Spain ” Her research has been presented at both national and international conferences and has been supported by a number of awards and grants, including a 2017 Mellon Pre-Dissertation grant from Indiana University’s Russian and Eastern European Institute (REEI) and the A Peter Brown Research Travel Award Recently, she worked as a research consultant on Hispanic topics for the tenth edition of the History of Western Music and its corresponding anthologies, and she continues to work for Indiana University’s Latin American Music Center (LAMC) Additionally, she has written program notes for orchestras across the country and remains an active violinist