Dr. Ronit Seter studies twentieth-century music and
specializesin Israeli art music. A contributor
to the New Grove Dictionary, Second Edition (and Grove Music Online,
12 entries), she has published, in Hebrew and English, entries in
encyclopedias, articles, book chapters, and a short book on Israeli composers.
Her chapter titled “Israel” in Asian
Composers in the 20th Century (2002, in Japanese and
English)—a
historical survey of Israeli music—was commissioned by the Japan Federation of
Composers through the Israel Composers League. Dr. Seter also contributed to Die
Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (2006), to Jewish Women: A
Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia (CD Rom edition, 2006)and to Encyclopedia
Judaica (2007). She has presented her work in guest lectures, colloquia,
and international musicological conferences in Israel, Europe, and the United
States, notably, in the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society
(1997), the International Musicological Society (2002 and 2007), the International
Conference on Music Since 1900 (ICMSN, 2007), and the Association for Israel Studies
(2007).
Dr. Seter
earned her Ph.D. at CornellUniversity (2004). She received
her BA and MA (1991) in musicology from Bar-Ilan
University, Israel.
During 2005-2006, she served on the faculty of both the Peabody Conservatory at
JohnsHopkinsUniversity,
and the Department of Music at The George Washington University. She currently
serves as adjunct researcher at the Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. In 2007-2008, she will perform there, and at the
Library of Congress in Washington,
DC, post-doctoral research
supported by a Dan David Scholarship and a grant from the Memorial Foundation
for Jewish Culture.
