The Järnefelts, Finnish National Romanticism, and Sibelius

Barbara Hong, a musicologist, taught music history and non-western music at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She studied at Boston University, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and at Indiana University. She was a Fulbright scholar to Finland, where she studied analysis with composer Kalervo Tuukkanen and did research for her master's thesis and doctoral dissertation on the life and works of composer/pianist Selim Palmgren. Hong is co-author (with Ruth-Esther Hillilä) of Historical Dictionary of the Music and Musicians of Finland (Greenwood Press, 1997). Now retired, she performs as a church organist as well as a pianist with the Des Amis clarinet trio, the Antwerp Recorder Ensemble, and the Arcadia wind quintet. Hong's current research interests are in Finnish Nationalism and the works of the contemporary Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara.