Inge van Rij

Senior Lecturer in Musicology,
Associate Director Music Studies and Composition,
Postgraduate Co-ordinator for BMus(Hons), MMus, PhD

BA BMus MMus VUW, PhD Camb

Inge van Rij teaches papers on historical and critical approaches to music (particularly nineteenth-century European art music) and analysis; she also supervises postgraduate research in a range of musicological topics.

A native Wellingtonian, Inge completed a BMus in Violin Performance, a BA in English Literature, and an MMus in Musicology at Victoria University of Wellington. As a recipient of a Commonwealth Scholarship, from 1998-2001, she continued her studies at Cambridge University, where she gained a PhD in Musicology and a Diploma in German. During this period she also conducted research in Austria and Germany, funded by awards from the Goethe Institut and the DAAD. In 2002 she returned to Wellington to take up a position in the Department of Music at Victoria University (subsequently the New Zealand School of Music). In addition to teaching a range of musicology and analysis courses, Inge is currently NZSM Associate Director.

Inge’s research centres on nineteenth-century European art music, particularly the vocal music of Brahms and Berlioz, viewed from a range of historical, critical, analytical, and interdisciplinary perspectives encompassing intersections with literature, fine arts, history, and postcolonial theory. She was awarded a Marsden Grant to conduct research for her first book, Brahms’s Song Collections (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Other research on Brahms includes an invited paper presented at a symposium in Meiningen, Germany, in 2008 (the proceedings of which were published by G. Henle Verlag in 2010): Spätphase(n)?:  Johannes Brahms’ Werke der 1880er und 1890er Jahre (Late Phase(s)?: Johannes Brahms’  Works of the 1880s and 1890s). Inge is currently completing a second book for Cambridge University Press on The Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz, and has published on Berlioz’s music and exoticism in the triannual music journal 19th-Century Music. She is also a regular presenter at international musicology conferences, including the biennial 19th-Century Music Conference, the Royal Musical Association Annual Conference, and the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society. Inge is currently President of the New Zealand Musicological Society.

Recent Publications
van Rij, Inge, Brahms’s Song Collections, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
van Rij, Inge, ‘Indian dancing girls in ancient Carthage in Berlioz’s Les Troyens’,
19th-Century Music 33/1 (2009): pp. 3-24.
van Rij, Inge, ‘“Der Hort des Minnesangs”: Song and Structure in Brahms’s and Widmann’s “Thunersonate”’, Spätphase(n)?: Johannes Brahms’ Werke der 1880er und 1890er Jahre, Internationales Musikwissenschaftliches Symposium, ed. Maren Goltz, Wolfgang Sandberger, and Christiane Wiesenfeldt, Munich: Henle, 2010, pp. 61-76.

Contact details:
phone: +64 4 463 5852
room: 001, 92 Fairlie Terrace, Kelburn Campus
email: inge.vanrij@nzsm.ac.nz

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