Bibliography & Discography
As a music scholar, Marika Kuzma has published books and articles and has been invited to give lectures on choral music internationally. As a conductor and chorus master, she has made recordings on major labels including Koch and Naxos International. List of publications below. (Photo with Nina Herasymova-Persydska, Kyiv 2016.)
Monographs
Carols of Birds, Bells, and Sacred Hymns from Ukraine: An Anthology and Cultural Companion (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2024)
Bortniansky: 35 Geistliche Konzerte für Chor (Critical Edition of the Choral Concertos of Dmitry Bortniansky), Carus International, 2016 link
Doctoral Thesis, Indiana University
“Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky: an Introduction to the Composer through a Critical Edition of Two Choral Concertos.” 1992
Winner of the Julius Herford Prize for Research in Choral Music, 1992Masters Thesis, Stanford University
“Poetry in Music: Bach’s Sacred Cantatas to the Texts of Christiane Mariane von Ziegler.” 1986
Interviews/Panels/YouTube lectures
National Public Radio: All Things Considered. December 2, 2022
Shchedryk interview
Harriman Institute, Columbia University. November 30, 2022
Panel discussion.
San Francisco Opera. October 7, 2022. Panel discussion
San Francisco Classical Voice interview
SFCV article
Invited Lectures/Program Notes
Lectures
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington, Indiana
Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Kyiv, Ukraine
Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Russia
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley Symphony
Oakland Symphony
Program Notes/Translations for:
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco Symphony
Trinity Wall Street Choir
Yale Camerata
CD liner notes:
Solomiya Ivakhiv, Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, Christmas in Ukraine, Naxos Intl. 2024
Paul Hillier, Estonian Chamber Choir The Powers of Heaven, harmonia mundi
Personal essays:
The Christian Science Monitor. 1984–85
Articles
“A Gateway to Ukrainian Music,” Choral Journal 63:8 (May 2023).
Brief portrait of Lesia Dychko in “Music from Ukraine,” Musicology Now. March 13, 2022
https://musicologynow.org/music-from-ukraine/“Johannes Brahms Opus 62: Sieben Lieder für gemischten Chor [Seven Songs for Mixed Chorus]: A Detailed Exploration, Part I,” Choral Journal, 42: 2 (September 2012).
Part II in Choral Journal 42:3 (October, 2012).Wordplay in Stravinsky’s Svadebka
Part I, Choral Journal, 52: 5 (December 2011)
Part II in Choral Journal 52:7 (February 2012)“Bortniansky a la Bortniansky: An Examination of the Sources of Dmitry Bortniansky’s Choral Concertos,” Journal of Musicology 14 (Spring 1996)
Signed Articles on Dmitry Bortniansky and Maxim Berezovsky in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Slavic-language journals
Discography—Conductor
Everyone Sang: Vocal Music of David Conte
Lincoln
San Francisco Conservatory String Orchestra with James Moore, English Horn; Scott Macomber, Trumpet; R. J. Glueckert, Tenor
Arsis Audio (2018)
Dmitry Bortniansky: I Cried Out to the Lord
Ensemble Cherubim
Naxos International, 2013
John Thow, Cantico, Chumash Songs, Eros and Dust
Chamber Chorus of the University of California
Palatino Records, 2004
Of Songs and Seasons
Johannes Brahms Opus 62; Lesia Dychko, Pory roku
Chamber Chorus of the University of California
Self-produced, 2004
Guillaume Dufay Missa Ave regina celorum
Chamber Chorus of the University of California
Sanglier, of Wild Boar Records, 2003
Icons of Slavic Music (17th-20th century motets)
Chamber Chorus of the University of California
Ameridisc, 1997
Elinor Armer and Ursula LeGuin, Eating with the Hoi
Chamber Chorus of the University of California
with Marilyn Taylor, Soprano
Koch International, 1996
Discography—Chorus Master
Ideals of the French Revolution
Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Kent Nagano conducting
Analekta, 2007
Jorge Liderman, Song of Songs
Chamber Chorus of the University of California
David Milnes conducting
Bridge Records, 2005
Submitted for Grammy Award, 2006
Gary Malkin and Michael Stillwater, Graceful Passages
Chamber Chorus of the University of California
Collaborative recording with Thich Nhat Hanh, Alan Jones, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, others
Wisdom of the World Series, 2001