Metropolitan State University of Denver

Gregory Camp

Personal Biography Statement

Dr. Gregory Camp has recently been awarded his DPhil by The Queen's College, Oxford University, studying the performance and reception history of Monteverdi's operas in the twentieth century. His work focuses on how opera, especially when recorded, is nested within the communities in which it takes place. Originally from Denver, Colorado, he graduated summa cum laude from The George Washington University with a double major in International Affairs and Music, writing his honors dissertation on the performance of Gregorian chant from the St Gall codex. He then went to Oxford for an MSt in Musicology, studying the modern reception history of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers. Gregory is also active as a performer, having sung in the Queen's College chapel choir, which he also served as librarian, and is the founder of the seventeenth-century music ensemble Selva Claudiana. He has also served the Queen's College graduate community as treasurer and as president of the Queen's Middle Common Room. In Spring 2013 he will be an adjunct instructor of music at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Educational Biography

Doctor of Philosophy: Musicology (June 2012)
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Dissertation: Monteverdi on the Modern Stage
Supervisors: Professor Eric Clarke, Dr Owen Rees

Master of Studies: Musicology (June 2008)
University of Oxford
Dissertation: The Monteverdi Vespers in Contemporary Culture
Supervisor: Professor Eric Clarke

Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude) (May 2007)
The George Washington University, Washington, DC
Majors: International Affairs, Music
Minors: History, Italian

Conference Participation

‘The Monteverdi Vespers in Contemporary Culture’, lecture at Oxford University Faculty of Music in connection with a concert by the Arcadian Singers of Oxford, March 2010.

‘The Politics of the Early Opera Revival: Monteverdi in France, Italy, and Germany’, presented at the Royal Musical Association Annual Conference, Institute of Musical Research, London, July 2010.

‘Whose Monteverdi? Authority in Early Opera Performance’, presented at The Embodiment of Authority: Perspectives on Performances, Sibelius-Academy Helsinki, September 2010.

‘The Early Opera Revival in Interwar Germany’, presented at the Oxford University German Graduate Seminar, November 2011.

‘“What’s this music?”: The “Performance” of Recordings in the Films of Wes Anderson’, presented at The Philosophy of Performance: Art in Modern Society, Notre Dame University, April 2012.

‘Sighs or Stammers: “Addio Roma” and the Modern Performance of Early Opera’, presented at the Royal Musical Association Annual Conference, Cardiff, June 2012.

‘Poppea in Space: The Influence of Theatre Architecture on Productions of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea’, presented at the American Musicological Society Southwest Chapter conference, October 2012.

‘Mickey Mouse Muzak: Shaping Experience Musically at Walt Disney World’, to be presented at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference, February 2013.

‘The Critical Use of Recordings in Teaching: A Case Study from Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea’, to be presented at the College Music Society Rocky Mountain Chapter Conference, March 2013.

Current Projects

Work on the history of stage direction in opera
Work on the "performance" of recordings in the films of Wes Anderson
Work on the pedagogical use of recordings

Personal

Favorite pieces of music: Claudio Monteverdi, L'incoronazione di Poppea; Luciano Berio, Sinfonia; Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens; Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George

Favorite films: Sunset Boulevard; Bringing up Baby; Vertigo

Favorite books: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; Ellen Rosand, Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice; Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before; Giorgio Bassani, Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini

Courses Taught

MUS-1000