Dr. Lynette Bowring is a musicologist and violinist specializing in the instrumental repertoire of the Renaissance and Baroque. Her current research focuses on musical literacy and education in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; she is working on a monograph, provisionally titled Writing Instruments: Musical Literacy and Learning in Early Modern Italy. Bowring’s other work includes Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy: New Perspectives (Indiana University Press, 2022), an essay collection co-edited with Rebecca Cypess and Liza Malamut that received the American Musicological Society’s Ruth A. Solie Award, and an edition of seven motets by Marianna Martines (A-R Editions, forthcoming 2024). Her contributions to scholarly journals include articles in Early Music and the Journal of Musicological Research. She frequently presents her work at conferences and gives pre-concert talks at venues in New York City and Connecticut.

Bowring earned a Ph.D. in musicology from Rutgers University; originally from Yorkshire in the UK, she also holds a master of music degree in musicology from the University of Manchester and a bachelor of music degree in violin from the Royal Northern College of Music. She previously taught at the Juilliard School, Rutgers University, and Westminster Choir College. At YSM, Bowring offers courses on topics including women in Western art music, the history of public performance, Baroque style, and early instrumental music. She currently serves as the Coordinator for Academic Studies, is a member of the DMA Committee, and is the YSM Liaison to the Yale Women Faculty Forum.