Dear fellow members of the NorCal Chapter of the AMS:

I am pleased to announce that we have a new chapter president-elect: Erica Buurman.

The elections were conducted remotely and closed on July 15, 2024.

Here are the detailed results of the elections:

23 members voted for Erica Buurman (22 using the Google Form and 1 via e-mail)

10 members voted for Monica Ambalal (all using the Google Form)

 

I am grateful to both Erica and Monica for their commitment to our Chapter and their willingness to serve.

Please feel free to contact Erica Buurman (erica.buurman@sjsu.edu) if you want to congratulate and/or have suggestions and requests for our next chapter activities.

 

Erica Buurman is Director of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies and Associate Professor in the School of Music at San José State University. Originally from Scotland, she began her studies as a violinist at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester before turning to musicology. She completed her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees at the University of Manchester and spent five years as a member of the music faculty at Canterbury Christ Church University (UK) before moving to the Bay Area in 2019. Her research centers on music and culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Vienna, particularly Beethoven and music for social dancing. Her publications include chapters in Cambridge Companion to the Eroica Symphony and the forthcoming Beethoven in Context, and a monograph, The Viennese Ballroom in the Age of Beethoven (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

 

Best wishes,

Pierpaolo Polzonetti