I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be joining the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Music starting in the Fall of 2018. Our little family circus will be moving West next summer. I am so thrilled to join the dynamic intellectual community of Berkeley, to be among faculty who have inspired and shaped my thinking since I started on this path, and to contribute to the renowned ethnomusicology graduate program there. I am all too aware that I have some big shoes to fill.
We can file this one under “so damn bittersweet”: I am very sad at the thought of leaving our Bard and Hudson Valley community. I have learned so much from the endlessly creative, energetic, brilliant faculty at Bard, many of whom have become close friends. I love our little town of Tivoli, I love our street in that town, I love our little home, the mountains and our river and our lakes and our woods here, I love the klezmorim and the secret canoe shows, and I love the care that my kids have gotten outside of our home. There are too many people who I’ve grown attached to here to namecheck. I’m looking forward to one more year of the Hudson Valley life, and many future visits!
Maria Sonevytsky 