+ 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.
+ PUBLICATIONS, PAPERS, RECORDINGS
Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy: New Perspectives. Coedited by Rebecca Cypess, Lynette Bowring, and Liza Malamut. Indiana University Press, May 2022.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore. Opera Lafayette (Germany: Naxos, 2021).
“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.
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).
“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.
Pierre Gaveaux: Léonore, ou L’amour Conjugal. Opera Lafayette (Austria: Naxos, 2018).
“Higher, Faster, Louder — Or Not! Applying Historical Brass Techniques to Modern Performances of Gabrieli’s Music.” Indiana University Historical Performance Institute Conference, May 20, 2017.
“The World of the Sackbut: The Trombone in the Renaissance and Beyond.” Tulsa Chamber Music Society, October 30, 2017; and Brisch Center for Early Music at the University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK, March 31, 2017.
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.
+ PERFORMANCES
EXILE: Music of the Early Modern Jewish Diaspora with Incantare. EXILE highlights Jewish music as it shifted and melded with traditions in England, Germany, Italy, and Poland. Incantare explores the influences of Italian, German, and eastern European music and Jewish culture, highlighting Jewish musicians, the non-Jewish composers they influenced, and composers who inspired innovations in Jewish composition. The project illuminates the mutual influences of the early modern European Jewish experience, breaks down preconceptions of Jewish music and culture, and explores the implications of diaspora on Jewish artistic legacy. The project was conceived in 2019 and has been touring the United States since Fall 2021.
Musical Landscapes Across the New World with Incantare. Incantare presents a program of music from worlds both old and new. Our story begins in sixteenth-century Spanish Florida, where the Huguenots sang psalm settings by Goudimel at Fort Caroline and Spanish Catholic church musicians performed the sonorous polyphony of Francisco Guerrero and other Iberian composers. We then travel to Spanish territories throughout the Americas, performing dances, motets, and villancicos from Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru. We respectfully present this music in the context of colonial America and the greater European impact on indigenous peoples of the New World, revealing a complex and fascinating story of transoceanic musical confluence in the communities of North America and beyond.
Singen und Sagen: Music for Hope in a Time of War. Presented by the American Musicological Society (2017), this concert integrated polychoral music from Praetorius's Polyhymnia Caduceatrix et Panegyrica with eyewitness accounts of the Thirty Years War. Over sixty participants -- students, alumni, faculty, and community musicians from the Rochester area -- participated in a free concert that emphasized the transcendence of music through times of hardship and despair. Video can be found here. This project will be remounted in 2023 in collaboration with Bella Voce and The Newberry Consort.
From Darkness into Light: Music in the Aftermath of War. With Incantare. The Thirty Years War had a profound effect on composition and culture in seventeenth-century Germany. This program illuminated the music of lesser-known wartime and postwar composers: the refugees Heinrich Grimm and Andreas Hammerschmidt; the British immigrant William Brade and his close multi-instrumentalist colleague Johann Schop; the controversial Johann Rosenmüller; Johann Vierdanck, star musician of the Dresden court; and Johann Rudolph Ahle, whose style directly influenced Bach and the subsequent high Baroque. Currently touring.
Tales from Prussia. With Incantare. Music from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ducal Prussia. During a time of great political maneuvering, religious conflicts, and the solidification (and breaking down) of world powers, musicians continued to make art in their own shifting populations throughout what we now know as Germany and Poland.
A Festive German Christmas: In collaboration with The Weckmann Project and New York-based vocal collective Musica Nuova, this concert transformed Heinrich Schütz's Weihnachtshistorie into a semi-staged, family-centric performance. Performed in the original German with period instruments, the concert welcomed new audiences in Brooklyn and Cambridge, many of whom had never heard anything by Schütz or experienced a live performance of early music before. Children sat at the front of the hall to experience the action up close, and were treated to an early instrument "petting zoo" after the shows.