+ DISSERTATION
Liza's work integrates historical trombone pedagogy with mainstream teaching and performing. Her dissertation, titled "Sounding History: A Diminution Method for Modern Trombonists," uses early modern sources to create a method book for trombonists based on sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century diminution manuals. Available on ProQuest and OpenBU.
+ PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
"Europa Rossi: A Question of Identity." Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology 22 (2024), 1-41. Open access.
Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy: New Perspectives. Coedited by Rebecca Cypess, Lynette Bowring, and Liza Malamut. Indiana University Press, May 2022.
"The Paris Conservatory as a Fulcrum for Modern Trombone Aesthetics," in Oxford Handbook of Wind Music. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming, 2026.
+ SELECTED PAPERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Planning a Program from Start to Finish: The Music of Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg.” Indiana University Historical Performance Institute Colloquium, 2023.
“From Choir to Concert Hall: The Path to a Modern Trombone Aesthetic.” Lecture recital and residency, University of Michigan, Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series. Ann Arbor, MI, 2023.
“Brass Beyond Binaries Windy City Retreat.” Historic Brass Today Vol. 3 No. 2 (Fall 2023).
“Klezmer Music, the Renaissance, and the Historical Trombone: Daniel Blacksberg and Liza Malamut in Conversation.” Historic Brass Today Vol. 1 No. 1 (Fall 2021), 12-19.
“Sprezzatura or Athleticism? The Influence of 20th-Century Sound Recordings on Historical Brass Performance Practice.” Pond Life, Crosscurrents over the Atlantic, Historic Brass Symposium, May 2021.
Review: “His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts: In Chains of Gold and Hieronymus Praetorius,” Historic Brass Society Recording Reviews, February 5, 2021.
“The Trombone in the Renaissance and Beyond.” Lecture recital and residency, University of Michigan, Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series. Presented by the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments. Ann Arbor, MI, 2019.
“Higher, Faster, Louder? Applying Historical Brass Techniques to Modern Performances of Gabrieli’s Music.” International Trombone Association Journal 46 No. 4 (October 2018), 37-41.
“The Wartime Trombones of Schütz’s Dresden: Trombone Affekt and Availability in Auf dem Gebirge (SWV 396).” Thirty Years of War: Heinrich Schütz and Music in Protestant Germany, Boston University, May 11-12, 2018.
+ RECORDINGS
Edmond Dédé: Morgiane. World premiere. Opera Lafayette (in production).
Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore. Opera Lafayette (Germany: Naxos, 2021).
Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della beata vergine. Green Mountain Project (New York: New Focus Recordings, 2020).
Schütz: The Christmas Story. Yale Schola Cantorum (London: Hyperion, 2019).
Pierre Gaveaux: Léonore, ou L’amour Conjugal. Opera Lafayette (Austria: Naxos, 2018).
Piffaro and Friends: A 30th Anniversary Celebration. Piffaro, the Renaissance Band (Piffaro Recordings, 2015).
Drive the Winter Cold Away. Piffaro, the Renaissance Band (George Blood Audio, 2013).
Israel in Egypt. Trinity Wall Street Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Musica Omnia, 2012), GRAMMY® nominated.
+ SELECTED PROGRAMS
So Sweet is Your Return, with The Newberry Consort. Renaissance chansons and madrigals. Chicago, February 2025.
A Latin American Christmas, with The Newberry Consort. Renaissance and Baroque music from Spanish-speaking regions. Chicago, December 2024 and 2025.
I Tremble Not, with The Newberry Consort. Music from Jacobean England, Chicago, October 2024.
Il Furioso! with The Newberry Consort and Incantare. Venetian music during the life and time of Jacopo Tintoretto. Chicago, April 2024.
The Vints Hans Lied, Yiddish historical song chronicling the events of the Fettmilch Uprising in Frankfurt am Main in 1614. Performed at the Vagantes Conference and the Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, March 2024.
I Sing a New Song, with The Newberry Consort and Trobar Medieval Ensemble. Medieval music of European minstrel schools. Chicago and Cleveland, March 2024.
In the Castle of the Moon, with The Newberry Consort. Music of Sophie Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg, with new performance editions transcribed from the Herzog August Bibliothek digitized collections. Chicago, September 2022.
Oracles, Prophets, and Dreams, with The Newberry Consort. Featuring the Sibylline Prophecies of Orlande de Lassus with voices, winds, and lute. Chicago, February 2023.
Madama Europa at the Gonzaga Court, with The Newberry Consort. A concert featuring the music and life of Mantuan Jewish singer Madama Europa. Chicago, October 2022.
EXILE: Music of the Early Modern Jewish Diaspora, with Incantare. Supported by a Paul R. Judy Polyphonic Grant for Innovative Ensembles, a RIMON Project Support Grant from the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, and a Jewish Heritage Fund Grant in Louisville, KY. Touring nationally 2020-Present.
Singen und Sagen: Music for Hope in a Time of War. With The Newberry Consort and Bella Voce (2023) and The Schola Cantorum of Rochester (AMS Annual Meeting 2017). Music and texts from Michael Praetorius’s Polyhymnia Caduceatrix et Panegyrica and eyewitness accounts of the Thirty Years War. Winner of an Early Music America Outreach Award.
From Darkness Into Light: Music in the Aftermath of War, with Incantare. Music for trombones, violins, and voices after the Thirty Years War. Twin Cities Early Music Festival, Saint Paul, MN, 2018; Hamilton College Concert Series, Clinton, NY, 2023.