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 Academic
and Musicology
Maja
Cerar graduated from the Literary Gymnaisum
Hohe Promenade
(Zürich,
Switzerland) with a Matura (type B, Latin), and earned
a Teaching
Diploma (equivalent of BFA) "with distinction" in 1994 and a Concert
Diploma (equivalent of MFA) "with
distinction" in 1995 from the
Conservatory of Winterthur-Zürich, Switzerland, where she
studied
violin with
Aida
Stucki-Piraccini (1984-1995).
In 1995 Ms. Cerar
moved to New York City where she studied violin with
Dorothy DeLay and Kurt Nikkanen (1995-2001). During this same
time, she
earned M.A. and M.Phil. degrees in historical musicology at Columbia
University, where she is now near completion of her Ph.D. At
Columbia, she taught the class Music Humanities and served on the
editorial
board of Current Musicology, and for two years she
worked as research assistant for Prof. Ian Bent in the development of
an online pilot project on Schoenberg’s Pierrot
lunaire,
in cooperation with the Columbia Center for New
Media Teaching and Learning. Since 2005, she has also taught musicology
courses at Rutgers University and Fordham University, has led
a
German reading/study group for Art History graduate
students at
Columbia University, and has taught violin master classes and coached
chamber music at the Loca Musica summer school in Skofja Loka, Slovenia.
Ms. Cerar has co-authored and presented papers and lectures including:
- University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
“2007 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts.”
Co-author, with Jason Freeman: “Graph Theory and the Virtual
Composer Residency Project,” February 2007.
- University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
Interdisciplinary/Collaborative Arts Series. Presenter:
“Broken Molds, Past and Present,” September 2006.
- New Orleans,
Louisiana, International Computer Music Conference.
Co-author, with Douglas Geers: “Development of a
Versatile Interactive Performance System,” November 2006.
- Location One, New
York, New York, "Dorkbot" Electronic Arts Lecture
Series. Presenter: "Input and Outlet: Interactivity between People and
Machines," October 2005.
- Skofja Loka Music
Academy, Skofja Loka, Slovenia, Festival "Loca Musica"
Presenter: "Contemporary Performance Practice of Violin in the
Multimedia Space," August 2005.
- Luther College,
Regina, Canada, Conference "The Unknown Schubert: New
Perspectives, New Insights." Paper presenter: "Intertextuality and
Non-Linear Structures in Schubert’s Late Quartets," December
2004.
- Musikhochschule
Winterthur-Zürich, Switzerland, Symposium in Honor of
Zakhar Bron. Panelist, December 2004.
- Kentler International
Drawing Space, New York, Symposium "Herbert
Brün: Computer Graphics and Compositions for Interpreters."
Panelist and performer, October 2004.
- Columbia University,
New York, Symposium "Re:NEW-Frontiers in
Creativity" (Part of Columbia University's 250th Anniversary
Celebration). Presenter and performer, September 2004.
- University of
Ljubljana, Slovenia, ISCM (International Society for
Contemporary Music) World Music Days Festival. Paper co-presenter with
composer Douglas Geers: "Mad Love for New Performance Technologies,"
September 2003.
- Arizona State
University, Tempe, Arizona, SEAMUS (Society of
Electroacoustic Music in the United States). Conference Panelist:
"Cross-Influences of Contemporary Electroacoustic Music with Popular
Electronica," March 2003.
- New York University,
New York, New York, Interactive Telecommunications
Program. Presenter and performer: "Communicating Musical Gesture in
Partnership with Live Computer Sounds," May 8, 2002.
- Center for New Media
in Teaching and Learning,
Columbia University, New York. "Inception," an article as part of
website project led by Prof. Ian Bent documenting Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire and
its cultural context, 2001.
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