Early strings specialist Dongmyung Ahn is a performer, educator, and scholar whose interests span from the twelfth to eighteenth centuries. She performs with Pegasus, The Raritan Players, The Sebastians, and TENET Vocal Artists. She played rebec in the critically acclaimed production of the Play of Daniel at the Cloisters.
A dedicated educator, Dongmyung teaches music history at Columbia University, New York University, and Queens College. She earned her Bachelor of Music with high distinction and her Master of Music from Indiana University where she studied baroque violin with Stanley Ritchie. She received her PhD in musicology at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and has published articles on medieval liturgy and Jewish-Christian relations in Henry VIII’s court, and a book review on gender and voice in the Journal of the American Musicological Society. Dongmyung has bylines in HuffPost (Voices) and the New York Times (Modern Love’s Tiny Love Story).