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Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska is an Associate Instructional Professor in the Music Department at the University of Chicago. She received her PhD from Northwestern University. Olga specializes in eighteenth-century music, focusing on musical meaning, music cognition, and music theory pedagogy. As a historically-informed music theorist, her research aims to incorporate cultural contexts into music analysis, particularly understanding how culture influences music interpretation. Her projects include investigating the musical landscapes of the past to reconstruct the experiences of historical listeners. Recent research explores how composers such as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven adapted their styles for hymns, opera, and instrumental music for various audiences, often interpreting sacred allusions in secular contexts. Currently, she is studying how embodied knowledge from dance has influenced the perception of symphonic minuets in late-eighteenth-century Vienna. Her research has received numerous awards from the Center for Latin and Iberian Music (2014), the Music Theory Society Mid-Atlantic (2015), the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, the Music Theory Society of New York State (2016), and the Center for Music Theory Pedagogy (2017).
Department of Philosophy