Thomas Peattie - Speaker

Thomas Peattie is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Mississippi. He holds degrees in composition and musicology from the University of Calgary and a Ph.D. in historical musicology from Harvard University. His most recent research explores the relationship between Romanticism and modernism with a particular focus on the music of Gustav Mahler and Luciano Berio. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Paul Sacher Foundation (Basel, Switzerland), the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, and the Northrop Frye Centre at the University of Toronto. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Gustav Mahler Research Center (Dobbiaco, Italy) and the editorial board of Mahler Dimensions: New Library of the International Gustav Mahler Society (Hollitzer Verlag, Vienna). His work has appeared in Mahler and his World (Princeton), Music, Modern Culture, and the Critical Ear (Routledge), Mahler in Context (Cambridge), The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Music and Letters, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, and Contemporary Music Review. He is the author of Gustav Mahler’s Symphonic Landscapes (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and is currently preparing a monograph on the transcribing practice of Luciano Berio.