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Barbara Dobbs MackenzieEditor-in-Chief RILM International Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3108 New York, NY 10016-4309 Phone: 1 212 817 1991 Fax: 1 212 817 1569 email: bmackenzie@rilm.org |
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| Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie received her Ph.D. in musicology from the
University of Michigan, where she wrote on the dissemination of Italian comic opera in the 1740s. She has written and published on the Baglioni family of
18th-century opera singers and on comic opera in Naples and in Rome. Before coming to RILM as an editor, Mackenzie taught music history at Western
Michigan University and the University of Michigan. Appointed Editor-in-Chief in 1996, Mackenzie has expanded the operations of RILM and improved the coverage, currency, and retrospective content of the database. She has given many presentations at international conferences and organizations, focusing on the issues of bibliographic dissemination and the evolving role of RILM within the research community. She has published many articles on bibliographic challenges in music scholarship. Mackenzie was appointed director of the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation in 1998. The Brook Center, begun by Barry Brook and renamed in his honor upon his death in 1997, is a scholarly facility at the CUNY Graduate Center whose objectives are to promote and provide a setting for wide-ranging research and documentation activities in music. In addition to housing RILM, the Brook Center encompasses the Research Center for Music Iconography, Music in Gotham, the Foundation for Iberian Music, the Center for the Study of Free-Reed Instruments, the Xenakis Project of the Americas, the 18th-Century Symphony Archive, and the French Opera in Facsimile project. A non-teaching faculty member of the Ph.D. Program in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center, Mackenzie serves on its Executive Committee. Her most recent publication, which she co-edited with Zdravko Blažeković, is a volume of 67 articles on the historiography of music entitled Music’s Intellectual History (2009). She is active in the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres, the Music Library Association, the American Musicological Society, the International Musicological Society, and the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS). She serves on the Board of Directors of NFAIS and Tannery Pond Concerts, a concert organization under the artistic leadership of Christian Steiner in New Lebanon, New York. Mackenzie, who also studied voice at the University of Michigan with Martha Sheil and in New York with Stephen Sweetland, has given a number of recitals and appeared in concert singing music from the Renaissance to Lieder, from opera to Cole Porter. | ||
