Faculty Profile: Jacquelyn Sholes
Position: Lecturer (Musicology and Ethnomusicology) 
Jacquelyn Sholes holds an M.F.A. and a Ph.D. in Musicology from Brandeis University and a B.A. summa cum laude in Music and Mathematics from Wellesley College. She is a life-long pianist and choral and chamber singer, with studies at New England Conservatory. Dr. Sholes has taught music history on the faculties of Wellesley College, Williams College, The University of Massachusetts Boston, and the Brandeis University Summer School and was a Head Teaching Assistant at Harvard University. Her recent research, including a book in progress, focuses on the intersections of musical form, narrative, and historical reference in the music of Johannes Brahms. Her article on allusion and extra-musical meaning in the early version of Brahms’s B-Major Piano Trio appeared in the Summer 2010 issue of Nineteenth-Century Music. She is a former student representative to the American Musicological Society Council and is a recipient of a Phyllis G. Redstone Dissertation Year Fellowship from Brandeis University and of the American Brahms Society’s Karl Geiringer Scholarship in Brahms Studies.
