Elizabeth Weinfield

Elizabeth Weinfield is a viol player, musicologist, and the artistic director of Sonnambula, 2018–19 ensemble in residence at The Met Museum. As an independent performance curator, she uses her deep understanding of the technique and history of old music to deconstruct and reimagine its artistic possibilities in the present, including the recent site-specific series at The Met Cloisters, reviewed by Alex Ross in the New Yorker as "remarkable." As guest curator of the Hispanic Society of America’s 2017–18 concert season, “Hispanic Women Composers,” she designed concerts of work by little-known female composers with ties to the Spanish diaspora including many New York premieres. Recipient of the Oxford University Press OBO award in music, Weinfield also runs SpectrumHP, a historical performance solo series at NYC’s contemporary music space, Spectrum, concerts of which often include new commissions for old instruments. As a writer and critic, she has published on old instruments and historical performance in The Galpin Society Journal, The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Huffington Post, Fortnight Journal, and others. A dedicated educator, she has taught music at The City College of New York, Stern College/Yeshiva University and Fordham University, art history at Oxbridge Academic Programs (Paris/Barnard), and beginning in 2019 joins the Faculty of Music History at The Juilliard School.