Justin T. Gregg

Justin Gregg is a PhD candidate in Historical Musicology at Columbia University, where he began in the Fall of 2018. His research broadly revolves around the intersections between music and European politics during the interwar period; he is working on a dissertation titled “Mahler, Politicized: Musical Diplomacy and Internationalism in the 1920 Mahler Festival,” under the guidance of Prof. Walter Frisch. He is currently appointed as the Director of Collegium Musicum—a Renaissance-style vocal ensemble—for the 2023-2024 academic year, and previously served in this position during the 2021-2022 academic year. He has also been appointed as a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Columbia, instructing the core undergraduate course Masterpieces of Western Music during multiple academic-year and summer semesters.

Prior to starting at Columbia, he received his Bachelor of Science (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from Georgetown University, where he studied both Music and Human Anatomy. He went on to complete his Master of Music in Music History and Music Theory from the University of Hartford (The Hartt School), where he served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow and completed a thesis entitled “Dmitri Shostakovich and the ‘Mahlerian’ Scherzo.”

Most recently, he presented his work at the first international symposium of the Wissenschaftszentrum Gustav Mahler in Vienna; he has also presented at regional meetings of the American Musicological Society in Boston and Washington DC, as well as various conferences for graduate students in music and the Hartt Music Theory Colloquium. In early 2020, he was invited to give a presentation at Goldsmiths, University of London, for a panel on Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. In his spare time, he enjoys indoor rock climbing and learning foreign languages.