Keynote Speaker

Grayson Wagstaff

Grayson Wagstaff, (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin; B.M., James Madison University), is Associate Professor and Chair of Musicology in the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, The Catholic University of America. He is also Director of the Center for Graduate Study of Latin American Music.
Earlier in his career he was on the faculty of the Department of Music at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Wagstaff is an authority and widely published author on music in Spain, Portugal and Latin America. He is the author of articles in such journals as The Musical Quarterly, Heterofonia, Journal of the Royal Music Association, Early Music, Notes, Inter-American Music Review, the Journal of Plainsong and Medieval Music, and a contributor to the New Grove II and The Reader’s Guide to Music. Wagstaff is a frequent speaker at international conferences and symposia. He was a featured lecturer at the Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Musical (CENIDIM), Mexico City and at the Universidade Veracruzana in Jalapa. He has also served in arts education programs in the D.C. area, including Smithsonian Associates, Washington Opera, Kennedy Center Presents, and The Washington Performing Arts Society.