Kristin Wendland is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music, where she teaches all levels of undergraduate music theory; gives a
seminar “Tango: Argentina’s Art Form in Body, Mind, and Spirit;” and
arranges, coaches, mentors the students of the Emory Tango Ensemble.
Wendland’s professional activities include serving the College Music Society www.csm@music.org, where she is currently a member of the Committee on Community Engagement. Her current research interests include the music and dance of the
Argentine tango and music theory pedagogy. She has read papers,
participated in panel sessions, and led demonstration workshops on these
topics for the College Music Society, the Society for
Music Theory, and the Society for Ethnomusicology (see papers and publications link). She has organized, co-directed, narrated and performed on
Argentine tango programs at Emory University’s Emerson Concert Hall, the
Georgia State University Rialto
Theater, the Latin American Association, and numerous milongas in the Atlanta area.
Wendland has been traveling to Buenos Aries annually since 2000 to
explore and study the world of tango. She received a Fulbright Lecture
and Research grant in 2005, where she taught a seminar in Schenkerian
Analysis at the Universidad Católica Argentina in
Buenos Aires and pursued her research in Argentine tango music for
seven months. While in Buenos Aires, she studies tango piano styles and
arranging with the composer/pianist Sonia Possetti. Wendland
planned and organized the professional development institute,
“Argentine Tango in Theory and Practice,” through the College Music
Society in conjunction
with the Academia Nacionál del Tango in Buenos Aires in July 2007, and
she directed and taught the history and analysis classes for the second
CMS institute in Buenos Aires in July 2009. Most recently she directed
the intensive three-week Emory Tango Music and Dance Summer Study Abroad Program in July 2011, and she expects to repeat the course in July 2012.
Her music degrees include the B.M. in Theory from Florida State
University, M.M. in Composition from the College-Conservatory of Music
of the University of Cincinnati, and the Ph.D. in Composition from the
City University of New York.
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