Michele Aichele
- Asst. Prof. Music History
- School of Music
Education
Ph.D., Musicology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Master of Arts, Musicology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Bachelor of Arts, Music History with Honors, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington
Scholarly Presentations and Publications
2020 “Strange Fruit: Black Lives in American Music.” Liberty Park Music. August 25, 2020. https://www.libertyparkmusic.com/strange-fruit-black-lives-american-music/.
2020 “The American Chaminade Club Phenomenon,” Poster presentation, American Musicological Society-Southwest Chapter Spring Meeting, Houston, Texas, February 29
2018 “Understanding Time Signatures and Meters: A Musical Guide.” Liberty Park Music. August 8, 2018. https://www.libertyparkmusic.com/musical-time-signatures/
2018 “Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944) and ‘The New Woman’ in the United States”
American Musicological Society Joint National Conference with the Society for Music Theory, San Antonio, Texas, November 1
2018 “International Women’s Day in Music: Overcoming Obstacles and Taking Career Control.” Liberty Park Music. March 8, 2018. https://www.libertyparkmusic.com/women-music-metoo-iwd/.
2017 “Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944) and ‘The New Woman’ in the United States”
American Women Pianist-Composers Conference: A Celebration of Amy Beach and Teresa Carreño, Durham, New Hampshire, September 15
2015 “The Biographical Myth in the Reception of Cécile Chaminade’s Concertino”
Feminist Theory and Music Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, August 6
2015 “The “New Song” in the Las Huelgas Codex”
University of Iowa Jakobsen Conference, Iowa City, March 18
2014 “Biographical Myth in the Reception of Cécile Chaminade’s flute Concertino”
Iowa Musicology Conference, Cedar Falls, April 5
2014 “Illustriousness, Conceit, the Musical Profession, and Madrigals: Maddalena Casulana” College Music Society: Great Plains Regional Conference, Liberty, Missouri, March 8
2013 “Illustriousness, Conceit, the Musical Profession, and Madrigals: Maddalena Casulana and her Secondo libro de madrigali à Quattro voci”
Women Composers Festival of Hartford, Connecticut, Forum March 9
University of Iowa Jakobsen Graduate Conference, Iowa City, April 6
2010 “Women as Composers: Writing Women Back into Music”
Center for the Study of Women in Society, Writing Women into History Road Scholars, Eugene, Oregon, 2010
2009 Bauer, Marion. Prelude and Fugue for flute and piano Op. 43. Edited by Michele Aichele and Susan Pickett. Philadelphia: Hildegard Publishing, 2009.
Awards and Honors
2016–2017 American Association of University Women American Dissertation Fellowship
2015 University of Iowa Graduate College Summer Dissertation Fellowship
2015 University of Iowa Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Exam Dissertation Fellowship
2013–2014 University of Iowa School of Music Fellowship
2013 First place, Humanities Division of the 15th Annual University of Iowa Jakobsen Graduate Conference for “Illustriousness, Conceit, the Musical Profession, and Madrigals: Maddalena Casulana and her Secondo libro de madrigali à Quattro voci” University of Iowa, Iowa City
2010 Winner of an Honorable Mention from the National Flute Association’s 2010 Newly Published Music Competition for Marion Bauer’s Prelude and Fugue for Flute and Piano, Op. 43, edited by Michele Aichele and Susan Pickett