I’m privileged to work with some great graduate students, and in some great groups, here at UIUC.
Kelli McQueen is a PhD student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She holds a MLIS and MM in music history and literature from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research interests include poetry and song in the Middle Ages, the history of musical notation, and gendered organology. She enjoys playing fiddle, finger-style guitar, and other period string instruments (lute, viola da gamba, and vielle). She often performs with the Flatland Consort and at various small venues in the CU area.
Janet McCumber is a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate in Choral Music and Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Janet taught high school choir, music theory and music appreciation for 14 years and most recently was the director of the University Mixed Chorus at Eastern Illinois University, where she also taught music appreciation. Her doctoral research centers on sacred music and politics of mid-late 16th century Reformation England, with special emphasis on settings of Psalm texts and Savonarolan prison meditations.