Dianne Goldman

Dianne Lehmann Goldman is a scholar of eighteenth-century music from Spain and New Spain, especially Mexico. She earned her Ph.D. in 2014 at Northwestern with a dissertation entitled “The Matins Responsory at Mexico City Cathedral, 1575-1815. She has since taught at various institutions, including the University of Maryland at College Park and Elmhurst University. Goldman is working on several projects, editions and articles about Ignacio Jerusalem and his time period.

As a member of the Seminario de Música en la Nueva España y el México Independiente based at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, she was invited to contribute to the third volume (music for matins) of the catalog of musical works at Mexico City Cathedral. Her most recent publication, from 2022, is an edition of Jerusalem’s requiem mass.

Other interests include authorship, Jewish music and cantillation. At Elmhurst, she is an Assistant Professor and teaches classes on Western music history (survey), histories of the symphony and opera, Latin American music and music in Jewish culture.