Bibliography

Monographs

Carols of Birds, Bells, and Sacred Hymns from Ukraine: An Anthology and Cultural
Companion. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Printing, 2024. link

Bortniansky: 35 Geistliche Konzerte für Chor (Critical Edition of 35 Choral Concertos
of D. 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 ACDA 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

Program Notes/Liner notes

Program Notes/Translations
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
Paul Hillier, Estonian Chamber Choir The Powers of Heaven, harmonia mundi

Personal Essay
“Pyrohy and Poetry.” The Christian Science Monitor. 1984–85

Interviews and panels

KALX, December 10, 2025, Radio interview

Cal Performances, December 2025, Video Interview

ASEEES Conference 2025 Panel discussion on memory in Ukrainian culture

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

Lectures and book talks

Ukrainian Institute of London May 2026,
“The Ukrainian Baroque” for online course Muzyka.

Book Talks (Carols of Birds, Bells, and Sacred Hymns from Ukraine)
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Shevchenko Scientific Society of New York City
Shevchenko Scientific Society of Toronto
St. Basil Ukrainian Seminary, Stamford, CT
University of California, Berkeley
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Toronto
Wesleyan University
Bridgewater Books, Guilford, CT
City of Berkeley Public Library
Musical Club of Hartford
Redwood Library of Newport, RI

Invited Lectures
Dartmouth College
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
Montclair State University
National Academy of Music in Kyiv, Ukraine
Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Russia
Ukrainian Institute of London
University of California, Berkeley
University of Southern California
Yale University

Pre-Concert Lectures
Berkeley Symphony
Oakland Symphony

Articles

“I sing therefore I am.”
Capsule for the Ukrainian History Global Initiative, forthcoming.

“Dmytry Bortniansky: Composer and Innovator.” In New Perspectives on Ukrainian Music, ed. Leah Batstone and Peter Schmelz. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming.

“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, in 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 and in Ukrainian-language journals

Discography

Conductor

Carols of Birds, Bells, and Peace from Ukraine

Works by Alzhnyev, Barvinsky, Koshetz, Kyshakevych, Leontovych, Lunyov, Stetsenko, Yakivchuk (Jacobchuk), Yakymets, Yatsynevych
Ensemble Cherubim
Centaur Records (forthcoming August 21, 2026)

Everyone Sang: Vocal Music of David Conte

Lincoln
with R. J. Glueckert, Tenor; San Francisco Conservatory String Orchestra; James Moore, English Horn; Scott Macomber, Trumpet
Arsis Audio, 2018

Bortniansky: I Cried Out to the Lord

Cherubic Hymn No. 7, Choral Concertos Nos. 1, 6, 9, 15, 18, 21, 27, 32, Kol Slaven
Ensemble Cherubim
Naxos International, 2013

John Thow, Cantico, Chumash Songs, Eros and Dust

Chamber Chorus of the University of California
Palatino Records, 2004. Available upon request

Of Songs and Seasons

Johannes Brahms Opus 62; Lesia Dychko, Pory roku and “Slava otsiu i synu”
Chamber Chorus of the University of California
Self-produced, 2004. Available upon request

Guillaume Dufay, Missa Ave regina celorum

Chamber Chorus of the University of California
Sanglier, of Wild Boar Records, 2003

Icons of Slavic Music

17th to 20th-century motets by Slavynetsky, Tuptalo, Bortniansky, and Rachmaninov
Chamber Chorus of the University of California
Ameridisc, 1995

Elinor Armer and Ursula Le Guin, Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts

“Eating with the Hoi”
Chamber Chorus of the University of California with Marilyn Taylor, Soprano
Koch International, 1995

Chorus Master

Ideals of the French Revolution

Beethoven, Eligischer Gesang
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

Gary Malkin and Michael Stillwater, Graceful Passages

Chamber Chorus of the University of California
Collaborative recording with San Francisco Bay Area musicians and readings by Thich Nhat Hanh, Alan Jones, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, others
Wisdom of the World Series, 2001