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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, 1992

  • Masters 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

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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