Lindsey Macchiarella, Ph.D.
Musicology
Lindsey Macchiarella received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Riverside, and a Masters in Musicology and certificate in Early Music Studies from Florida State University. In 2016, she completed her PhD with a focus in musicology from Florida State University. She joined the music faculty at the University of Texas at El Paso in Fall 2015 and currently holds the positions of Associate Professor of Music, Musicology Area Coordinator, and Music Librarian.
Her research interests are broad, though her primary area of research specialization is early modernism in fin-de-siècle France and Russia. She completed archival research at the Scriabin Museum and the Lenin Library in Moscow in 2014 while studying Russian language and culture at Moscow State University. Her dissertation, “Skryabin’s Prefatory Action: Libretto, Sketches, and Divine Unity,” examined the musical sketches and philosophical underpinnings of Skryabin’s final, unfinished work. She has since published articles on early modern piano music and cross-modal modernist aesthetics in Music in Art and Keyboard Perspectives and has presented her research at national and international conferences. Dr. Macchiarella currently serves on the board of directors of the Scriabin Society of America, and is lead editor of Rethinking Scriabin, a collection of essays forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2025. She is currently working on a monograph biography of Aleksandr Skryabin.
Dr. Macchiarella is also an avid early music performer on the recorder and viola da gamba, performing with early music groups in the southwest, Sprezzatura and the Society of Forgotten Instruments. She is the founder and director of the UTEP Early Music ensemble and Collegium Musicum and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Viola da Gamba Society of America. She is the 2023 recipient of the Thomas Binkley Award from Early Music America and was Project director of the NEA-funded Early Music Latin America Festival.
More information at www.LindseyMacchiarella.com
Contact Info
Department of Music: Musicology
Email: lmacchiarella@utep.edu
Office: FFA M446A (Music Library)
Office Phone: (915) 747-5967
Recent Publications
“Reich and Gursky: Parallel Minimalist and Post-Minimalist Narratives in Music and Photography.” Music in Art 46 (2021): 173-184.
“Modernizing Satie: Performance, History, and Aesthetic Ideology.” Keyboard Perspectives 12 (2019-20): 45-60.
“Early French Modernism Across Modalities: Erik Satie and Eugène Atget.” Music in Art 42/2 (2017): 11-30.