Communities Christina Fuhrmann '92
A classical pianist establishing her career in music scholarship
"Marlboro affected my life so much that it's hard to know where to start," says Christina Fuhramann '92, who completed her Plan of Concentration in musicology and piano performance. "I was looking for a place where I could study music, especially piano, and of course you can't do better than one-on-one attention from a pianist like Luis Batlle." She added that having completed a Plan "made me feel more courageous about launching into the Ph.D. dissertation."
After graduating from Marlboro, Christina went on to study historical musicology at Washington University at St. Louis. She completed her Ph.D. in 2001, and went on to teach music at Ashland University. As an educator, Christina tries to offer her students "the combination of caring and challenge that Marlboro professors gave me."
Christina has published numerous articles in the journal Nineteenth-Century Music Review and in volumes such as Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music (New York and London: Routledge, 2002) and Romanticism and Opera in the Romantic Circles Praxis Series (2005). Christina is a founding member of a new musical society, the North American British Music Studies Association. At Ashland she regularly performs piano works by composers Ludwig Thuille and Karl Husa. Her current work involves transforming her dissertation, concerning the performance of continental operas in London theaters in the early 19th century, into a book.