Claire Fontijn

Fontijn obtained her B.A. in Music and French with honors from Oberlin College in 1982. She went on to earn a Certificate in Baroque Flute Performance from the Royal Conservatory of the Hague in 1985. In 1989, she received her M.A. in Performance Practice from Duke University, where she completed her studies with a Ph.D. in Musicology in 1994.{{cite web|url=https://wellesley-college.files.svdcdn.com/production/people/cvs/FontijnCVJune2024.pdf?dm=1718715139|title=Claire Fontijn|website=Wellesley College|access-date=May 5, 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://music.duke.edu/alumni/claire-fontijn|title=Claire Fontijn|website=Duke Trinity College of Arts and Sciences|access-date=May 5, 2025}}

Fontijn joined Wellesley College as an assistant professor of Music in 1994 and was promoted to associate professor in 2001. In 2008, she became the Barbara Morris Caspersen Associate Professor of the Humanities at Wellesley College, a position she held until 2011. From 2013 to 2016, she was a professor of music, and since then, has held the title of Phyllis Henderson Carey Professor of Music.

Fontijn was the resident director of the Eastern College Consortium (E.C.Co.) in Bologna, Italy, in 2009–10 and again in Fall 2024.{{cite web|url=https://eccoprogram.it/staff-contacts/|title=Staff Contacts|website=E.C.CO. Bologna|access-date=April 30, 2025}}

As a performer, Fontijn has appeared as a singer and Baroque flutist with the Washington Bach Consort, Le Concert Spirituel in Paris, and La Donna Musicale in Boston.{{cite web|url=https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195135381/author/|title=About the Author|website=Oxford University Press|access-date=April 30, 2025}}

In 2006, Fontijn published her first monograph, Desperate Measures: The Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo, the first biography to detail the life and works of this seventeenth-century Venetian singer and composer. The book was recognized as a valuable and erudite addition to historical music literature,{{cite journal |last1=Gordon-Seifert |first1=Catherine Elizabeth |title=Desperate Measures: The Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo (review) |journal=Notes |date=2007 |volume=64 |issue=2 |pages=309–311 |doi=10.1353/not.2007.0165 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/7/article/224336/summary |issn=1534-150X|access-date=May 19, 2025|url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |last1=Williams |first1=Peter |title=Broadening the Baroque |journal=The Musical Times |date=2007 |volume=148 |issue=1900 |pages=97–102 |doi=10.2307/25434481 |jstor=25434481 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25434481 |access-date=May 27, 2025 |issn=0027-4666|url-access=subscription }} although critics of the book did note the difficult style and structure of the book, alongside some inaccuracies in text.{{cite journal |last1=Gustafson |first1=Bruce |title=Review: Desperate Measures: The Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo by Claire Fontijn |journal=Journal of the American Musicological Society |date=December 1, 2008 |volume=61 |issue=3 |pages=650–653 |doi=10.1525/jm.2008.61.3.650 |url=https://online.ucpress.edu/jams/article-abstract/61/3/650/50610/Review-Desperate-Measures-The-Life-and-Music-of?redirectedFrom=fulltext |access-date=May 27, 2025 |language=en |issn=0003-0139|url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |last1=Sawkins |first1=Lionel |title=Desperate Measures: The Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo |journal=Musicology Australia |date=January 1, 2008 |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=100–102 |doi=10.1080/08145857.2008.10416741 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08145857.2008.10416741 |access-date=May 27, 2025 |issn=0814-5857|url-access=subscription }} In 2010, with Susan Parisi, she edited and contributed to the volume titled Fiori musicali: Liber amicorum Alexander Silbiger, a collection of essays intended as a Festschrift for her dissertation advisor, Alexander Silbiger.{{cite book |first=Susan |last=Parisi |editor1-last=Fontijn |editor1-first=Claire |title=Fiori musicali: liber amicorum Alexander Silbiger |date=2010 |publisher=Harmonie Park Press |location=Sterling Heights, Mich |isbn=978-0899901442 |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/502304763|access-date= May 19, 2025}} The volume was described as substantial, articulated and a quality addition to Baroque music literature,{{cite journal |last1=Ledbetter |first1=David |title=Fiori Musicali: Liber amicorum Alexander Silbiger. Ed. by Claire Fontijn and Susan Parisi. |journal=Music and Letters |date=November 1, 2011 |volume=92 |issue=4 |pages=641–643 |doi=10.1093/ml/gcr086 |url=https://academic.oup.com/ml/article/92/4/641/1141444?login=false |issn=0027-4224|access-date=May 19, 2025|url-access=subscription }} however, Bethany Cencer pointed out that the international scope of the book could have benefitted from the inclusion of an English topic.{{cite journal |last1=Cencer |first1=Bethany |title=Fiori musicali: liber amicorum Alexander Silbiger |via=ProQuest |journal=Early Keyboard Journal |date=2012 |volume=27-29 |pages=221–223 |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/b0b7390fc7634f2ce97f85e461e22a07/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=25873 |access-date=May 27, 2025 |language=en}}

In a book chapter she authored in the periodical Early Music, Fontijn examined the issue of inequality of note values in Johann Joachim Quantz’s flute music.{{cite book |first=Claire A. |last=Fontijn |editor1-last=Milsom |editor1-first=David |title=Classical and Romantic Music |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |location=Oxon, England |isbn=9781315095653 |edition=First |chapter=Quantz’s Unegal: Implications for the Performance of 18th-Century Music|pages=87–96 |doi=10.4324/9781315095653-7 |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315095653-7/quantz-unegal-implications-performance-18th-century-music-claire-fontijn|access-date=May 19, 2025}} In 2013, she published her second monograph, titled The Vision of Music in Saint Hildegard's Scivias: Synthesizing Image, Text, Notation, and Theory, which presents the work of polymath Hildegard von Bingen.{{cite book |last1=Fontijn |first1=Claire Anne |title=The vision of music in Saint Hildegard's Scivias: synthesizing image, text, notation, and theory |date=2012 |publisher=Music Word Media Group |location=Spencertown, NY |isbn=978-1937330217|url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/1277344458|access-date= May 19, 2025}} Later, in 2020, she edited the book Uncovering Music of Early European Women and contributed a chapter in which she explored how Barbara Strozzi represented weeping characters in her laments.{{cite book |last1=Fontijn |first1=Claire Anne |editor-first1=Claire |editor-last1=Fontijn |title=Uncovering music of early European women (1250-1750) |date=2020 |publisher=Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |location=New York |isbn=9780429505164 |url=https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429505164 |access-date=May 19, 2025 |chapter=Representations of Weeping in the Laments of Barbara Strozzi|doi=10.4324/9780429505164 }}

• 2007 – Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Biography in the Field of Classical Music, American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers of Music{{cite web|url=https://www.ascapfoundation.org/programs/awards/award-recipients/deems-taylor/2007|title=40th Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards Presented|website=ASCAP|access-date=April 30, 2025}}
• 1989 - Third Prize Winner, Case Western University Baroque Music Competition{{cite news |last=Kiraly |first=Phillipa |date=January 29, 1989 |title=Old Music, Young Players - and a Baroque Treat |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-akron-beacon-journal/174413197/ |publisher=The Akron Beacon Journal |page=50}}

• {{cite book |last1=Fontijn |first1=Claire Anne |title=Desperate measures: the life and music of Antonia Padoani Bembo |date=2006 |publisher=Oxford University press |location=New York Oxford |isbn=9780195135381 |edition=1}}
• {{cite book |last1=Parisi |first1=Susan Helen |editor1-last=Fontijn |editor1-first=Claire Anne |title=Fiori musicali: liber amicorum Alexander Silbiger |date=2010 |publisher=Harmonie Park Press |isbn=9780899901442}}
• {{cite book |last1=Fontijn |first1=Claire Anne |title=The vision of music in Saint Hildegard's Scivias: synthesizing image, text, notation and theory |date=2013 |publisher=Music Word Media |isbn=9781937330217}}
• {{cite book |editor1-last=Fontijn |editor1-first=Claire |title=Uncovering music of early European women (1250-1750) |date=2020 |publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781138585638|edition=1}}

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