Bibliography

As a music scholar, Marika Kuzma has published books and articles and has been invited to give lectures and interviews on choral music internationally. List of books, articles, interviews, and lectures below. (Photo with Nina Herasymova-Persydska, Kyiv 2016.)

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With esteemed Ukrainian musicologist Nina Herasymova-Persyds’ka in Kyiv (2016)


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

At Breakwater Books in Guilford, CT