BIOGRAPHY: Cecelia Porter
Cecelia Hopkins Porter has been a classical music critic for
the Washington Post for 22 years and has written articles for Opera News, The
Musical Quarterly, 19th-Century Music, Holocaust and Genocide
Studies, The American Music Teacher and numerous other publications. Dr. Porter
has A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in music with honors from Harvard and Columbia Universities
and the University
of Maryland. She attended
the Hochschule fuer Musik in Berlin on a
German government scholarship; Peabody Conservatory and the Boston
symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Music
Center. She was a
Fulbright scholar in Vienna; and has served on
the music faculties of George Washington University
and the University
of Maryland. As a
musicologist, she wrote “The Rhine as Musical Metaphor: Cultural Identity in
German Romantic Music,” published by Northeastern University Press and is
finishing a second book, “Women, Music, and Society” for the University Press
of New England. A Washington,
D.C., native, she is an active
pianist, flutist, and organist; paints in oil, and travels extensively. She is
the mother of four grown children and lives with her husband in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Cecelia Porter