432 Western Ave. Emily Pinkerton Albany, NY 12203 412.999.3443 Ethnomusicologist | Songwriter | Performer [email protected] www.emilypinkerton.com Assistant Professor, Music Industry The College of Saint Rose

Education The University of at Austin (UT-Austin) — Austin, TX

Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology — 2007 Dissertation: “The Chilean Guitarrón: The Social, Political and Gendered Life of a Folk Instrument,” Committee Chair: Dr. Stephen Slawek

M.M. in Ethnomusicology — 2002 Master’s Report: “A Medieval Fiddle in Its Modern Contexts: The Rural and Urban Resurgence of the Chilean Rabel,” Committee Chair: Dr. Gerard Béhague

Butler University — Indianapolis, IN

B.A. in Music (Voice), Spanish and French — 1998 High honors, cum laude.

Performance The Early Mays — Songwriter | Arranger | Performer — 2012-Present Co-founder of all-female acoustic trio, performing vocals, guitar, banjo and fiddle.

NPR’s with Larry Groce — October 2017 Formal Showcase at Northeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference — November 2017 #1 Artist and Album on National Folk DJ Charts — “Chase the Sun,” released August 2017 First Place Neo-Traditional Band — Appalachian String Band Music Festival — August 2016 #2 Debut on National Folk DJ Charts — “The Early Mays,” released October 2014 WYEP Artist of the Year — 2014-2015

www.theearlymays.com

Rounder Songs — Composer | Performer — New Amsterdam Records —November 2017 Appalachian Song Cycle for Voice, Banjo and NOW Ensemble (flute, clarinet, electric guitar, piano and bass) arranged and composed by Emily Pinkerton and Patrick Burke.

Features on WNYC’s New Sounds with John Schaefer, Textura, No Depression and PopMatters —November 2017-January 2018 2017 concerts at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY, Carnegie Hall Neighborhoods Concert Series, Denison University’s Tutti Fest

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Chirihue — Vocalist | Violinist | Composer | Tour Manager — 2013-2015 Collective of composers and performers from Chile, Panama, Peru and Venezuela. Performed at Panama Jazz Festival and organized two university residencies and North American tours for six member ensemble.

Additional Ensembles Copihue Chile — Chilean music and dance ensemble — 2007-2014 Divahn — Sephardic and Middle Eastern touring quartet — 2001-2004 UT-Austin — Andean, Brazilian and Gamelan ensembles —1999-2004

Teaching Assistant Professor, Music Industry (Songwriting/Composition) The College of Saint Rose — Albany, NY — 2018 to present Instructor of record for courses in Songwriting, Ethnomusicology and Performance.

Courses in development: Old-Time and Early Country Ensemble | Troubadours of Latin America: Songwriters of the 1960s and 70s | Music of the Andes | Songwriting in Cross- Cultural Perspective (project based study with research or composition tracks) | Folk Revivals of North America

Instructor of Ethnomusicology The University of Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh, PA — 2007-2017 Instructor of record for World Music and Latin American Music survey courses. Designed curriculum that focused on building listening skills and a conceptual vocabulary for studying traditional, popular and classical musics from around the globe. Created multiple options for semester-long projects including field research, performance, composition or traditional research papers. Offered multiple hands-on performance opportunities for students in both large and small lecture classes. Currently working with Center for Latin American Studies to create an Andean Music survey course and a performance workshop (conducted in Spanish) as part of Languages Across the Curriculum.

Director of Music First Unitarian Church — Pittsburgh, PA — 2006-Present Manage entire music program, including a multi-generational choir, a classical choir, a chamber music concert series, a singer/songwriter concert series, music for worship and an artist-in-residence program. Arrange folk, pop and traditional repertoire for Sunday service performances. Actively work to connect music offerings with anti-racist, anti-oppression mission of the church, developing multi-cultural competency among participants.

Education Consultant and Instructor Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society — Pittsburgh, PA — 2006-2007 Researched and implemented new formats for K-12 community outreach. Created teaching manual and educational resources for school instructors. Designed beginner and intermediate level classes on rock, North American folk and South American guitar.

Teaching Assistant The University of Texas at Austin — Austin, TX — 2000-2003 Instructor for performance ensemble focusing on traditional and popular repertoire from Andean regions of South America. Created a cooperative learning environment in which both experienced and beginning musicians could participate equally. Provided individual and group instruction in string and wind techniques. Instructor for recitation sections in survey courses on Andean, Brazilian, Argentine and Western Classical music.

Assistant Instructor The University of Texas at Austin — Austin TX — 2003 Instructor of record for accelerated first year course for undergraduates in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Awards and Honors Composition Awards The Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation Creative Development Grant — 2016 New Music USA Grant — 2015

Academic Awards Fulbright/IIE Fellowship for Dissertation Research — 2004 Organization of American States Research Grant—2004 Tinker Grant for Field Research in Latin America —2000 The University of Texas at Austin Preemptive Fellowship —1999 Assistant Editor for Latin American Music Review —2001-2002

Performance Recognition (See p.1 for most recent recognitions) Roster Artist with Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour — 2010-2013 #10 debut on National Folk-DJ Charts for solo CD “Ends of the Earth” — March 2012 Contest Awards in Flatfoot Dancing and Fiddle: Appalachian String Band Festival, State Folk Festival and Uncle Dave Macon Days — 2011-2012 Juried Showcase Performances at Northeast and Southeast Folk Alliance, Pennsylvania Presenters and other conferences — 2010-2014 Publications Latin American Music Review Book Review — ”Aquí me pongo a cantar” by Ercilia Moreno Chá — forthcoming, 2018 A Latin American Music Reader: Views from the South Translation of article — “Indigenous Music and Identity: Musical Spaces of Urban Mapuche Communities” by Jorge Martínez Ulloa — University of Illinois Press, 2016 Soundscapes from the Americas: Ethnomusicological Essays on the Power, Poetics and Ontology of Performance Chapter — “Feminine Flowers among the Thistles: Gendered Boundaries of Performance in Chilean Canto a lo Poeta” — Routledge/Ashgate, 2014 New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Entries on “Nueva Canción,” “Violeta Parra,” and “Victor Jara” — 2014

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings “Que Viva el Canto! Songs of Chile” Introduction Essay—in liner notes to Rafael Manríquez CD — 2009 Revista del Encuentro Nacional de Guitarroneros (Review of the National Assembly of Guitarrón Players) Article — “El Taller de Alfonso Rubio” Santiago, Chile — 2005

Presentations Southeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference — Montreat, NC Lecture demonstration on flatfooting technique and the style of Thomas Maupin — 2015 Chatham University Film Festival — Pittsburgh, PA Discussion of the musical and social legacy of Chilean songwriter Violeta Parra — 2014 The Society for Ethnomusicology — Columbus, OH “The Gendered Guitarrón: Women in the Masculine Musical Spaces of Chilean Poesía Popular” — 2007 The Society for Ethnomusicology — Atlanta, GA “Reconstructing Instruments and Identities: The Rabel and the Guitarrón in Chile” Atlanta, GA — 2005 International Association for the Study of Popular Music — Buenos Aires, Argentina “Gracias a la vida: Transformaciones estilísticas en su circulación internacional” — 2005 GAMMA/UT Conference — Austin, TX “A Medieval Fiddle in its Modern Contexts: The Rural and Urban Resurgence of the Chilean Rabel” — 2003 Association of Graduate Ethno/Musicology Students (AGEMS) — Austin, TX Paper Competition, First Prize “When Folklore Began: The Intersection of High, Low and Folk in Rural and Urban Musical Discourse” — 2003