Lindsey Macchiarella, Ph.D.
Musicology
Lindsey Macchiarella joined the music faculty at the University of Texas at El Paso in Fall 2015. She currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of Instruction and is musicology area coordinator and music librarian.
She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Riverside, and a Masters in Musicology and certificate in Early Music Studies from Florida State University. In 2016, she completed her PhD with a focus in musicology from Florida State University. Her area of research specialization is early modernism in fin-de-siècle France and Russia, and has articles in Music in Art and Keyboard Perspectives. Her recent work focuses on Russian composer, Aleksandr Skryabin (Alexander Scriabin). She is lead editor of Rethinking Scriabin (Oxford University Press, 2025), and is working on a biography of the composer.
Dr. Macchiarella is also an avid early music performer on the recorder and viola da gamba, performing with early music groups in the southwest, Sprezzatura and the Society of Forgotten Instruments. She is the founder and director of the UTEP Early Music ensemble and Collegium Musicum and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Viola da Gamba Society of America. She is the 2023 recipient of the Thomas Binkley Award from Early Music America and was Project director of the NEA-funded Early Music Latin America Festival.
Find more information at www.LindseyMacchiarella.com
Contact Info
Department of Music: Musicology
Email: lmacchiarella@utep.edu
Office: FFA M446A (Music Library)
Office Phone: (915) 747-5967
Recent Publications
“Reich and Gursky: Parallel Minimalist and Post-Minimalist Narratives in Music and Photography.” Music in Art 46 (2021): 173-184.
“Modernizing Satie: Performance, History, and Aesthetic Ideology.” Keyboard Perspectives 12 (2019-20): 45-60.
“Early French Modernism Across Modalities: Erik Satie and Eugène Atget.” Music in Art 42/2 (2017): 11-30.