She/her
Arts Division
Continuing Lecturer
Faculty
Music Center
Room 126
Music Center
Dr. Faith Lanam is a musicologist, performer, pedagogue, and continuing lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on the music and women of the Colegio de San Miguel de Belem, Mexico’s first female music conservatory. She has collected and edited numerous musical manuscripts, performance scores, partbooks, and archival documents from the Archivo Histórico del Colegio de San Ignacio de Loyola, Vizcaínas, in Mexico City. Drawing on secondary sources in historical musicology, music education, and studies in colonialism and gender, Dr. Lanam’s research increases our understanding of historically underrepresented foci in musicology, specifically eighteenth-century music pedagogy and the professional training of female musicians, situated within the greater context of the musical and social life of colonial Mexico City.
Dr. Lanam has presented her research on the Colegio de San Miguel de Belem at the international conferences of the American Musicological Society; Galant Schema Studies; American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; Society for Eighteenth-Century Music/Royal Swedish Academy of Music; Ignacio Jerusalem 250: Galant Musics in Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, and the New World; and Ignacio Jerusalem, Chapelmaster of the Mexico City Cathedral: Music and Art in New Spain during the Eighteenth Century. Her work has been cited by Pedrone Persone in The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord (2019), Javier Marín-Lopez and Drew Edward Davies in Ignacio Jerusalem (1707–1769): Cronología biográfica y lista de obras (2019), Nicholas Baragwanath in The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 2020), and Cesar Favila in Immaculate Sounds: The Musical Lives of Nuns in New Spain, among others.
Dr. Lanam serves as the organist at Saint Ann Chapel in Palo Alto, California, where she performs weekly liturgical services and specializes in hymnody, early keyboard literature, and the accompaniment of 18th- through 20th-century sacred vocal literature. As a percussionist, she performs orchestral and chamber works and collaborates with local composers in the performance of new works. Her editions of Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger's Libro terzo d’intavolatura di chitarrone facilitate the study of early baroque performance practice and performance of archlute repertoire by marimbists.
With extensive experience in the field of music education, Dr. Lanam applies her knowledge of pedagogy and educational psychology to foster an engaging and positive learning environment for students of diverse backgrounds. Access and inclusion are at the forefront of her in-person, hybrid, and online course design. Since 2020, she has developed seven online and hybrid courses. In both her applied and academic classes, she seeks to create well-rounded curricula interweaving relevant aspects of performance practice, music history, social and cultural context, music theory, and critical listening skills.
Dr. Lanam invites UCSC students who are interested in her courses to visit her class websites:
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2024 "Traveling the Empire: Epistemologies of 18th-Century Musical Knowledge in 'Vezerro de Lecciones.'" Presented at the Music, Migration, and the Exchange of Knowledge: Spain - North America - Latin America Bi-continental Symposium, Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona.
2024 "Leveraging Technology in Universal Design for Learning in the Music Classroom." Presented at the joint session of the Music and Disability Study Group and Pedagogy Study Group, American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Chicago.
2023 “Bound in Calf Skin: The Solfeggi that Travelled 8000 Miles.” Keynote address given at the international conference of the Galant Schema Studies, online.
2021 “A Neapolitan Conservatory in New Spain: A Contextual Analysis of the Contributions of Italian Pedagogues to a Mexican Girls’ School.” Presented at the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music/Royal Swedish Academy of Music’s International Conference Global Intersections in the Music of the 18th Century, Stockholm, Sweden/emergency remote.
2021 “Dichotomies of Privilege: Lifting Up and Holding Down Women in New Spain through Music Education.” Presented at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO/emergency remote.
2020 “Behind Closed Doors: Illuminating the life of María Micaela Jerusalem—músico, rectora, y criolla.” Presented at the International Conference Ignacio Jerusalem, Chapelmaster of the Mexico City Cathedral: Music and Art in New Spain during the Eighteenth Century, Miami, Florida.
2019 “Family Legacies, Criollo Identity, and the Galant Style: Ignacio Jerusalem’s Compositions for his Daughters.” Presented at the International Conference Ignacio Jerusalem 250: Galant Musics in Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, and the New World, Baeza, Spain.
2016 “Mothers, Sisters, Niñas, and Nuns: The Training of Young Female Musicians of Colonial Mexico.” Presented at the Annual Convention of the American Musicological Society, Vancouver, Canada.
INVITED LECTURES
2024 “Current Topics in Independent Research.” Presented at a Special Colloquium, University of California, Santa Cruz.
2024 “Training as a Musician in New Spain.” Guest lecture presented in Music in Culture: Music of California, San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
2024 “Dando Vida al Archivo: La Música de los Colegios de Niñas.” Presented at the Colegio de San Ignacio de Loyola, Vizcaínas, Mexico City.
2023 “Fling Wide the Gates: Navigating Life After Conservatory.” Artist-in-Residence address presented to the Capital University Conservatory of Music, Bexley, Ohio.
2023 "Galant Schemata in Compositional Practice Today." Guest lecture presented at Composition Meeting, Capital University Conservatory of Music, Bexley, Ohio.
2023 "Digging through Documents: Criolla Women in New Spain." Guest lecture presented to Spanish 311: Communication & Culture, Capital University, Bexley, Ohio.
2023 "Women in Eighteenth-Century Mexico: Methods of Archival Research." Guest lecture presented to Spanish 350: La literatura hispánica: Siglos XVIII-XXI, Capital University Bexley, Ohio.
2023 Lecture and Reading Session: "Eighteenth-Century Mexican Duets," Presented to the Clarinet Choir, Capital University Conservatory of Music, Bexley, Ohio.
2023 "Women's Music Making in Colonial Mexico." Guest lecture presented to Music History, Capital University Conservatory of Music, Bexley, Ohio.
2023 "Solfège in the Eighteenth-Century: The Double-Do System." Guest lecture presented to Audiation III, Capital University Conservatory of Music, Bexley, Ohio.
2023 "Archival Research Methods: Painting a Picture of the Past," Guest lecture presented to Conservatory First Year Seminar, Capital University Conservatory of Music, Bexley, Ohio.
2023 Lecture and Reading Session: "Duets from Colonial Mexico," Presented to the Trumpet Studio, Capital University Conservatory of Music, Bexley, Ohio.
2023 "Glimpses Behind Closed Doors," PANdemonium4 Pre-Concert Talk, Capital University Bexley, Ohio.
2020 “Marian Devotion and Musical Practice in a Novohispanic Girls’ School.” Presented at the concert “Spanish Roots—Mexican Flowerings,” Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, Santa Cruz, California.
2019 “What’s a Girl to Do? Educational and Professional Paths of Colonial Mexico City’s Criolla Musicians.” Colloquium presented at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
2019 “Music for Our Lady of Guadalupe: Jerusalem’s ‘Non fecit taliter’ and Ortuño’s ‘Gradual for the Virgin of Guadalupe.” Presented at the Vivace Youth Chorus of San José annual retreat, Ben Lomond, California.
ant. 2026 “By Land and by Sea, through Time and through Space: The Geographical and Temporal Circulation of Musical Knowledge in the Journey of One Manuscript,” invited chapter in Music and the Exchange of Knowledge: Spain - North America - Latin America, ed. Tina Frühauf and Andrea Puentes-Blanco (Brepols).
ant. 2026 “Leveraging Technology in Universal Design for Learning in the Music Classroom," invited article in colloquy “Accessibility and Accommodation in the Music Classroom,” Journal of Musicology Pedagogy.
ant. 2027 “Bound in Calf Skin: The Solfeggi that Travelled 8,000 Miles,” invited chapter in Galant Schemata in Theory and Practice, ed. Jonathan Salamon, Alexander Nicholls, and Christopher Tarrant (Boydell and Brewer).
2023 World premiere of Faith Lanam's "Glimpses Behind Closed Doors: Music from Mexico City’s Colegio de Belem", Duet Nos. 4, 1, 2, and 6 from Manuscrito de Lecciones ‘J.M.J.’ del Colegio de Belem. Performed by PANdemonium4 (Kimberlee Goodman, flute, Lindsey Goodman, alto flute, Lisa Jelle, piccolo, and Alison Brown Sincoff, bass flute) on the Concerts at St. John's, Charleston, West Virginia, September 17, 2023.
2023 World premiere of Faith Lanam's "Glimpses Behind Closed Doors: Music from Mexico City’s Colegio de Belem" (1. "Juego de Versos para Órgano sobre los 8 favordones," Tercero Tono, Verzo 3.o by José Antonio Gómez y Olguin, edited and arranged by Dr. Lanam 2. "Non Fecit Taliter", anonymous, edited by Dr. Lanam 3. "Vezerro de Lecciones," Partida VI.41 by Ignacio Jerusalem, edited by Dr. Lanam). Performed by PANdemonium4 (Kimberlee Goodman, flute; Lindsey Goodman, flute, alto flute, and voice; Lisa Jelle, flute, piccolo, and alto flute; and Alison Brown Sincoff, flute and voice) at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, September 23, 2023.
2016 Twenty-first-century premiere"Non fecit taliter" by Joe Antonio Gomez y Olguin, edited by Faith Lanam. Performed by the Michigan State University Young Women's Chorus, Kyle Zeuch, director. November 5, 2016.
2013 Ittai Rosenbaum, Six poems by Sylvia Plath (2012) I. Aquatic Nocturne. Joshua Lanam,—tenor. Faith Lanam—marimba, vibraphone UCSC Recital Hall, January 27, 2013.
2013 Ittai Rosenbaum, Six poems by Sylvia Plath (2012) II. The Couriers. Joshua Lanam,—tenor. Faith Lanam—marimba, vibraphone UCSC Recital Hall, January 27, 2013.
2013 Ittai Rosenbaum, Six poems by Sylvia Plath (2012) IV. Barren Woman. Joshua Lanam,—tenor. Faith Lanam—marimba, vibraphone UCSC Recital Hall, January 27, 2013.
