Alicia C. Levin

Education

• PhD, Musicology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.
• MA. Music History and Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004.
• BMus, Piano Performance and Pedagogy, Illinois Wesleyan University, 2002.

Biography

Alicia Cannon Levin is a musicologist and pianist in the Milwaukee area. She holds an MA (2004) and PhD (2009) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with research areas in nineteenth-century French culture and early American country music. Her dissertation, entitled “Seducing Paris: Piano Virtuosos and Artistic Identity, 1820-1848),” examines musical life in nineteenth-century Paris through the lens of virtuoso pianism. Research interests include virtuosity, improvisation, women’s studies, nineteenth-century pianism, French music, and American country music.