Jonathan Glixon
Professor of Musicology
University Research Professor, 2008-2009

Degrees:
PhD Princeton University 1979
MA Princeton University 1975
BA Brandeis University 1973

Research Areas:
Music of Venice (including sacred music and 17th century opera)
Archival studies
Renaissance and Baroque music
Early music performance practices

At UK since: 1983

Phone number: 859-257-1694
Email: Jonathan.Glixon@uky.edu

Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

Jonathan Glixon received his PhD from Princeton in 1979. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (Fellowships in 1997-98 and 2004-05), the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Philosophical Society.  He has presented papers at numerous conferences, including several in Italy, England, and Canada, and has published the results of his work in such journals as Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicology, and Music and Letters, and in English, Italian, and Australian publications. His first book, Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1807, was published by Oxford University Press in 2003.  His second book, co-authored with Beth Glixon and published in 2005 by Oxford in the A.M.S. Studies in Music series, is Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth-Century Venice. Glixon is currently writing a book on music for Venetian nuns. He has taught since 1983 at the University of Kentucky, where he is Professor of Musicology. In addition to his work with the School of Music, he teaches in the University of Kentucky Honors Program.