musicianship, musicology
Tiffany Kuo, musicologist and pianist, is a graduate of Stanford University (BA, music; BS, biological sciences), The Juilliard School (MM, piano performance), and New York University (MA, musicology). As musicologist, her research topics include: avant-garde music, post-World War II American intellectual history, and music making cultures during the Cold War. She is currently completing a dissertation entitled, “Composing American Individualism: Luciano Berio in Cold War America,” a monograph that imagines and reconstructs an episode of Berio’s life, from 1960 to 1971, by integrating the local textures of politics with the momentum of his career.
In print, she has contributed to The Juilliard Journal, Washington Square Contemporary Music Society’s program notes, and the Journal of the American Liszt Society. In conferences, she has given papers in Europe and in the U.S. Tiffany is also an active pianist, performing regularly with her chamber music group. Her awards and fellowships include: the Paul Sacher Stiftung Scholarship (2007), NYU’s MacCracken Fellowship (2002-7), and Stanford University’s Robert H. Golden Medal (1998).
Prior to Yale, she taught at Fordham Univeristy, NYU, Juilliard, and NYC’s P.S.166. In 2005, she fact-checked The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross. Outside of music, she has contributed to Molecular and Cellular Biology.