Diana R. Hallman
Associate Professor of Musicology

Degrees:
PhD CUNY Graduate Center
MM University of Maryland
BM Winthrop University

Research Areas:
19th-century studies
Opera and cultural studies
American music and concert life

At UK since: 1995

Phone number: 859-257-8184
Email: Diana.Hallman@uky.edu

Prior to joining the University of Kentucky faculty, Diana Hallman received her Ph.D. from CUNY Graduate Center in June 1995. Her dissertation on the French grand opera La Juive and its historical context, for which she was granted a Barry S. Brook Dissertation Award, served as the basis of her book, Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France: The Politics of Halévy's La Juive (Cambridge University Press, 2002; ppb repr., 2007 http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521650860). Dr. Hallman is author of a number of articles and reviews, including entries on the composer Fromental Halévy and the librettist Ludovic Halévy in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart and the Dictionary of Literary Biography, and is contributing author to Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer:  Paris, 1830-1914, (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera (Cambridge University Press, 2003).  She has also written essays for program books of international opera houses, including the Paris Opéra, Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, Zürich Opernhaus, and De Nederlandse Opera, and was a featured speaker for the BBC's live broadcast of La Juive from the Vienna Staatsoper (October 1999).  She has presented papers at meetings of the American Musicological Society, Society for French Historical Studies, and Sonneck Society (SAM), as well as the Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music and the Colloque Halévy at the Paris Conservatoire.   Her research interests include the history of American concert life and performance, and she is completing a biography of the Austrian-American pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler.

Dr. Hallman regularly teaches graduate and undergraduate courses centered on the music and culture of the 18th and 19th centuries, the history of opera, symphonic music, chamber music, and music research methods, as well as seminars on historiography and epistemology, music and gender, and performance practice.  She has also served as adjunct lecturer at Fordham University, Baruch College-CUNY, Catholic University, and the Smithsonian Institution.  Her interests in performance stem in part from her training as a pianist, which included a bachelor's degree in piano performance and graduate work in piano.