Paula Maust

Paula Maust is a performer, scholar, and educator dedicated to fusing research and creative practice to amplify underrepresented voices and advocate for social change. She is the creator of expandingthemusictheorycanon.com, an open-source collection of more than 500 music theory examples by historical women and/or people of color. A print anthology based on the project was published with SUNY Press in December 2023. Additionally, she is an Early Modern Area Editor for Grove Music Online’s extensive gender and sexuality revision project. Paula’s research has been published in Women and Music and the Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music, and she regularly presents her work in lectures across the United States. As a harpsichordist and organist, Paula has been praised for combining “great power with masterful subtlety” (DC Metro Theater Arts) and as a “refined and elegant performer” (Boston Musical Intelligencer). As the co-director of Musica Spira, she curates provocative lecture- concerts connecting baroque music to contemporary social issues focused on women. Paula performs extensively as a continuo player with numerous ensembles in the region, including the Washington Bach Consort, the Folger Consort, Third Practice, and Pro Musica Rara. Paula is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. She holds degrees in harpsichord from Peabody (DMA ’19, MM ’16) and in organ from the Cleveland Institute of Music (MM ’12) and Valparaiso University (BM ’09).

Grace Srinivasan

Praised for her “beautiful vocalism” (San Francisco Gate) and engaging presence, soprano Grace Srinivasan has established herself in the Baltimore-Washington area as a versatile performer of a wide spectrum of repertoire ranging from medieval chant to contemporary compositions. A graduate of Peabody Conservatory and a Washington, D.C. area native, Grace sings professionally as cantor and associate music director at St. Stephen Martyr Catholic Church, cantor at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, section leader at Temple Sinai, and at Washington National Cathedral as a staff soprano. Grace has sung with ensembles throughout the country, including Sound Salon, the Washington Bach Consort, Cathedra, Capitol Early Music, Capriccio Baroque and Chantry, and has performed on concert stages across North America from Seattle to the Dominican Republic. Grace serves as resident music director for the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company in downtown Baltimore and is a co-founder of the early music ensemble Musica Spira, which highlights music by early modern women. An occasional screen actor, she appeared in the PBS docudrama Enemy of the Reich as Noor Inayat Khan.