Dr. Christina Linsenmeyer appointed Associate Curator at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
School of Music Dean Robert Blocker recently shared news with the YSM community that Dr. Christina Linsenmeyer will join the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments staff in May 2019. Below is Dean Blocker’s announcement.
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that Dr. Christina Linsenmeyer has been appointed Associate Curator at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments and will begin her work in May. “Christina’s deep knowledge and broad perspective will contribute to our mission the moment she joins our team,” Collection Director William Purvis said.
Most recently, Dr. Linsenmeyer worked as a researcher at the Sibelius Academy at the University of the Arts Helsinki, in Finland. She was a founding Curator and served as interim Head of Curatorial Affairs at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.
Dr. Linsenmeyer earned a doctorate in musicology from Washington University in St. Louis, a diploma in violin-making from the North Bennet Street School in Boston, and a bachelor of arts degree with honors in music from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. She is passionate about cultural history and the arts and has spent the past two decades specializing in musical-instrument museums and organology. Dr. Linsenmeyer has also explored transdisciplinary approaches to the visual and aural aspects of music history and the intersections of aesthetics, social history, and material culture.
A contributor to numerous international publications, Dr. Linsenmeyer has made presentations at such notable institutions as the Germanisches nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum, the University of Edinburgh’s Musical Instrument Collection, and the Violin Society of America. She is the Secretary of the International Council of Museums’ International Committee for Museums and Collections of Instruments and Music.
Please join me in welcoming Dr. Linsenmeyer.
Warmest regards, Robert Blocker The Henry and Lucy Moses Dean of Music Yale School of Music
