About
A “virtuoso” (HKSNA) with a range of expression from “eerie sonance” (Diapason) to “jumpy athleticism” (Chicago Classical Review), Tiffany Ng (she/her/hers) is Associate Professor of Music, Chair of the Department of Organ, and University Carillonist at the University of Michigan. Her concert career spans festivals in seventeen countries in Europe, Australia, Asia, and North America; her recordings appear on albums from innova, Late Music, Clear As Day, and Rockefeller Chapel; and her score publications cover arrangements from Florence Price to Motown. She has premiered over 60 works, collaboratively pioneered models for audience-interactive carillon experiences, and significantly increased the diversity of composers writing for carillon as well as the American repertoire for carillon and electronics.
Ng’s scholarly publications and reference works focus on race and gender in public soundscapes, queering keyboard studies, postcoloniality and bells, and connections between cold war technology and diplomacy to the historicist revival of organ and carillon building in America and the Netherlands. She holds a doctorate in musicology and new media studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the recipient of both the Shirley Verrett Award and the Henry Russel Award for U-M faculty. She serves on the boards of the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies and the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America and on the Council of the American Musicological Society.
Current Work
The website of “A Century of Women and the Carillon” (www.CarillonWomen.org) highlights fifty of the first women to advance carillon culture in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the Middle East, and Africa. The site features articles by dozens of authors, along with interactive maps, photographs, video and audio, and bibliographies about women who advanced carillon culture.
Research Area Keyword(s)
bells, carillon, Music, musicology, soundscapes