Nicole Steinberg, Ph.D.

Biography

Dr. Nicole Steinberg is an Adjunct Professor in the division of Music History and Culture.  University of Maryland, College Park, and former Director of Operations and Media of Opera Baltimore. Her research examines the public performance of traumatic repertoire in the context of care ethics, moral responsibility, and memorialization. Steinberg has publications forthcoming with the Opera Journal and the Oxford Handbook of Music, Sound, and Trauma. She has presented her research at meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Society on Music Since 1900, the International Network of Genocide Scholars, the Society of Ethnomusicology, the National WWII Museum Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, and the European Studies Conference.

Dr. Steinberg has a passion for applied musicology, coupling her scholarly research with her experience in arts non-profit management. Steinberg served as the Director of Operations and Media at Opera Baltimore from 2018-2023, where she helped the company grow from a small budget non-profit to a million-dollar budget arts organization. She now continues to work with Opera Baltimore on special, community-oriented projects. Currently, she serves as the Cultural Programs Coordinator and project lead of Voices in Solidarity: Baltimore’s Black and Jewish Operatic History. She also frequently appears as a guest lecturer with Opera Baltimore, Annapolis Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera. 

Dr. Steinberg earned her Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Maryland, College Park. She also holds an M.M. and a B.M. in Voice Performance from Towson University and the University of Miami respectively.