Sylvie Tran

Biography

Sylvie Tran is a music theorist who studies questions of music, place, and identity, primarily in American classical music. She is completing her PhD at the University of Michigan, and her current research examines portrayals of the American West in classical music from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through lenses of race, gender, landscape, and other issues. Her secondary research, drawing from her experience as a flutist, deals with performance and analysis, particularly the intersubjective aspects of chamber music performance as well as the politics of reorchestration and arrangements/transcriptions.