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Jennifer Goltz specializes in the performance of new music and fin de siècle art song. She has been likened to Jan deGaetani for her enchanting tone, flexibility of timbre, keen accuracy, and compelling, expressive performances. Ms. Goltz has premiered works written for her by composers such as Evan Chambers, Andre Myers, Kristin P. Kuster, Gabriela Frank, and Logan Skelton. Her ten-year affiliation with the new music ensemble Brave New Works has yielded performances across the country of such works as Leslie Bassett s Pierrot Songs, William Bolcom s Briefly It Enters, George Crumb s Madrigals, Bright Sheng s Three Chinese Love Songs, and Alberto Ginastera s Cantata para America Magica, as well as the premieres of works such as Andrew Mead s Let the Air Circulate and Far Cry, Carter Pann s Women, and Sea Changes by Forrest Pierce. At the invitation of the composer, Ms. Goltz performed Luciano Berio s Circles with Klangforum Wien at the 1999 Salzburg Music Festival. With French cabaret specialist Stephen Whiting she has given lecture-recitals on early cabaret, most recently at the Chicago Humanities Festival. She has given celebrated performances of Mozart s Requiem and Mass in C Minor and Haydn s Paukenmesse in Los Angeles and Vienna and Barber s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 in Timisoara, Romania with Filarmonica Banatul. She can be heard singing Evan Chambers Three Tannahill Songs on Cold Water, Dry Stone (Albany Records) and Logan Skelton s An American Circus, with baritone Stephen Lusmann, on Centaur. Ms. Goltz earned Master s degrees in Vocal Performance and Music Theory and a Ph.D. in Music Theory from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she studied with Freda Herseth, Martin Katz, Marion Guck, and Andrew Mead. Unique among vocalists for her expertise in music theory, she published Pierrot le diseur, on vocal traces of the cabaret in Pierrot lunaire (The Musical Times, Spring 2006). More extensive research and analysis of the Brettl-lieder and Pierrot lunaire can be found in her 2005 dissertation, The Roots of Pierrot lunaire in Cabaret. In 2004, she joined the music faculty at Scripps College in Claremont, California, where she is Assistant Professor of Voice and Music Theory.