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Anya Wilkening

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Anya B. Wilkening is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the College of Music at Florida State University. She received the PhD in Historical Musicology from Columbia University in 2024. Her research focuses on new analytic approaches to musical borrowing in medieval vernacular song, exploring not only what this technique can tell us about the process of composition, but also what it reveals about social, intellectual, and cultural connections across Europe and the Mediterranean. Her work has been supported by the Belgian American Educational Foundation and the Institut de recherche en musicologie (IReMus), where she is a member of the Musical Patrimony research team. She has presented her work at the annual meeting of the International Congress of Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo 2024), the American Musicological Society (Chicago 2024), and the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference (Durham/Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2025), among other conferences.

A deeply committed pedagogue, Anya has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses and ensembles. In 2022, she earned the Core Preceptor Award for Teaching Excellence in Music Humanities at Columbia University. She also held several fellowships through the Center for Teaching and Learning during her time at Columbia University, and was appointed Senior Lead Teaching Fellow in 2023-2024.

Anya is also an active violinist, and holds the Master’s and Bachelor’s of Music from the Shepherd School of Music, where she studied with Paul Kantor. She has performed widely across the United States and Europe, from New York’s Carnegie Hall to the Musikverein in Vienna. An avid chamber musician, Anya has studied and performed at the Aspen Music Festival and School (2018), the Robert Mann String Quartet Seminar (2017 & 2018), and Strings Music Festival (2017). She also served as a Da Camera Young Artist, performing and teaching throughout Houston as both a soloist and chamber musician. Anya performs on a 1761 Florentine violin made by Lorenzo and Tomaso Carcassi.

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