Musicologist and historical keyboardist Rebecca Cypess is the Mordecai D. Katz and Dr. Monique C. Katz Dean of the Undergraduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yeshiva University. Her publications include Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment (2022), Curious and Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo’s Italy (2016), and the co-edited collections Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy (2022) and Sara Levy’s World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin (2018). She received the 2018 Noah Greenberg Award for contributions to historical performance and the 2023 Ruth A. Solie Award for a collection of essays, both from the American Musicological Society.
