musician –

– musicologist

Ji Young’s circuitous musical path has taken her from her hometown of Santiago, Chile, to New York, where she studied at Manhattan School of Music and Columbia University. Currently, she is completing a PhD in musicology from Cornell University. Her research interests remain anchored in early nineteenth-century German musical culture, while experimenting with various methodologies and perspectives, including critical theory, music analysis, and performance practice. Her work has been funded by the Cornell Institute for European Studies and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst and presented at numerous institutions and conferences.

Serendipitous circumstances steered Ji Young towards an exploration of early keyboards with Malcolm Bilson. As a performer, she strives for vivid renditions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music, informed by historical contexts and instruments, analytical insight, and careful programming. Notable recent projects include an exploration of Robert Schumann’s late instrumental music with the Formosa Quartet. She has performed with Elizabeth Blumenstock and Tanya Tomkins at the Valley of the Moon Music Festival, and mostly recently appeared at the Bloomington Early Music and Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Series.

​In 2016 Ji Young was adjunct lecturer of musicology at Indiana University–Bloomington and will join the faculty of the Australian National University School of Music in July 2017. Her duties there will include co-directing the ANU Keyboard Institute, the southern hemisphere’s largest collection of historical keyboards.