Anna Celenza, Ph.D.
Anna Harwell Celenza (Ph.D. Duke University) is the program's Curriculum Advisor. She was recently appointed Director of the Music Program at Georgetown University, where she holds the Thomas E. Caestecker Chair in Music. Before her arrival at Georgetown, she served on the faculties of Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Conservatory and Michigan State University, where she was chair of the Musicology/Ethnomusicology area. She is the author of several scholarly books - the most recent being Hans Christian Andersen and Music: The Nightingale Revealed (2005). Her work has also appeared in Nineteenth-Century Music , Notes , The Cambridge Companion to Liszt (2005), and Franz Liszt and His World (2006).
In addition to her scholarly work, she has authored a series of award-winning children's books with Charlesbridge Publishing: The Farewell Symphony (2000), Pictures at an Exhibition (2003), The Heroic Symphony (2004), Bach's Goldberg Variations (2005), and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (2006).
Her work has been featured on nationally syndicated radio and TV programs, including NPR's "Todd Mundt Show", BBC's "Music Matters" and "Proms Broadcasts", and C-Span's "Book-TV". She is currently a writer and guest commentator for NPR's "Performance Today."
