Rate My Professor Kailan Rubinoff

Kailan Rubinoff is an Associate Professor of Musicology and serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the School of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, a position she has held since joining the faculty in 2007. She received her B.A. in Music from the University of Pennsylvania, a Performance Certificate and Second Phase diploma in historical performance specializing in Baroque and Classical flute from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and a Ph.D. in Music from the University of Alberta. Rubinoff's research specializations encompass the historical performance movement, Baroque and Classical performance practices including improvisation and instrumental pedagogy, the history and reception of twentieth-century art music, Dutch music and culture, music and social policy, and the anthropology and ethnography of western art music cultures. She is presently authoring a book on the historical performance movement in the Netherlands.

Her scholarly publications have been featured in leading journals such as the Journal of Musicology, Early Music, Music and Politics, twentieth-century music, and the Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis. Notable works include chapters in Early Music in the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, 2024), Historical Performance and New Music: Aesthetics and Practices (Routledge, 2023), and Music and Protest in 1968 (Cambridge University Press, 2013)—the latter collection receiving the American Musicological Society's Ruth Solie Award for outstanding essays. Select articles are “Professionalizing Historical Performance: The Past and Present of Early Music Education in Amsterdam” (2024), “Towards a Revolutionary Model of Music Pedagogy: The Paris Conservatoire, Hugot and Wunderlich’s Méthode de flûte, and the Disciplining of the Musician” (Journal of Musicology, 2017), “‘The Grand Guru of Baroque Music’: Leonhardt’s Antiquarianism in the Progressivist 1960s” (Early Music, 2014), and “Cracking the Dutch Early Music Movement: The Repercussions of the 1969 Notenkrakersactie” (twentieth-century music, 2009). Supported by grants from the Fulbright program and the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada, her work examines intersections of music, politics, and culture. Additionally, Rubinoff performs on Baroque and Classical flute and maintains a cross-appointment in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2025-2029). She teaches courses including History of Western Music I and II, Eighteenth-Century Music, Twentieth-Century Music, Music and the Grand Tour, and seminars in music research and musicology/ethnomusicology.