Justin T. Gregg

Justin T. Gregg

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Justin T. Gregg received his PhD in Historical Musicology from Columbia University in May 2024. His dissertation, written under the guidance of Prof. Walter Frisch, is titled “Mahler, Politicized: Musical Diplomacy and Internationalism in the 1920 Amsterdam Mahler Festival.” During his time at Columbia, he was appointed for two years as the Director of Collegium Musicum—a Renaissance-style vocal ensemble—and also served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow, 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 a dual Master of Music in both 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 titled “Dmitri Shostakovich and the ‘Mahlerian’ Scherzo.”

He has presented his work at the joint annual meeting of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory in Denver (2023), the first international symposium of the Wissenschaftszentrum Gustav Mahler in Vienna (2022), and regional meetings of the American Musicological Society in both Boston and Washington, DC, among other conferences. In early 2020, he delivered an invited talk at Goldsmiths, University of London, as part of 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.