Kristin Wendland 1804 North Decatur Road Burlington Road Building, Room 333 Atlanta, GA 30322 404-727-7936 kwendla@emory.edu Tango at Emory El choclo (Villoldo), with dancers from the Emory Tango Ensemble http://www.youtube.com/emoryuniversity#p/u/4/s_tEA4Shc_Y Inspiracion (Paulos) http://www.youtube.com/emoryuniversity#p/u/3/xJHsP3UUaHM Silbando (Castillo and Piana) http://www.youtube.com/emoryuniversity#p/u/0/jjmLh4gFqSU Malena (Demare and Manzi) http://www.youtube.com/emoryuniversity#p/u/1/bHiLqgtE5tE A fuego lento (Salgán) http://www.youtube.com/emoryuniversity#p/u/7/V5mDOCtBtz0 La Cumparsita (Rodriguez), with the Vega Quartet, Damián Bolotín, violin solo, and dancers from Tangueros Emory http://www.youtube.com/emoryuniversity#p/u/2/oBWgKohUSzE Links to Publications

Kristin Wendland is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music, where she teaches music theory, analysis, and musicianship skills. She also gives a seminar “Tango: Argentina’s Art Form in Body, Mind, and Spirit,” both as a Freshman Seminar and as 300-level course on the Summer Study Abroad Program in Buenos Aires; and she arranges, coaches, mentors the students of the Emory Tango Ensemble.

Wendland’s professional activities include serving the College Music Society (LINK: www.csm@music.org), where she is currently the chair of the Professional Development Committee and the Board Member for Music Theory of the Southern Chapter. 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. Her recent article “The Allure of Tango: Grafting Traditional Performance Practice and Style onto Art-Tangos” appeared in the College Music Symposium (47/2007) http://www.music.org/cgi-bin/symp_show.pl?h=36&f=28&id=906.

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 is currently working on a tango music anthology and making arrangements for the Emory Tango Ensemble. She planned and organized the professional development workshop, “Argentine Tango in Theory and Practice,” through the CMS in conjunction with the Academia Nacionál del Tango in Buenos Aires in July, 2007, and plans are underway for a second workshop to take place the last two weeks of July 2009.

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.