GWYNETH BRAVO is active in the fields of musicology, music education, and cello pedagogy and is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles where she was a recipient of a President’s Fellowship. A winner of a Collegium of University Teaching Fellowship, Gwyneth taught her own seminar on Music and War at UCLA in 2009. As a development of the course, Gwyneth is currently working on two related projects: a co-edited volume on Music of War with ethnomusicologist Benjamin J. Harbert and a collaborative, documentary film with filmmaker David Leaf whose work includes The Night James Brown Saved Boston (2008), and The US vs. John Lennon (2006).  Earlier, as a Fulbright scholar at the Musicological Institute of the University of Hamburg in Germany, Gwyneth worked with the research group Exilmusik contributing an article to their book Lebenswege von Musikerinnen im Dritten Reich und im Exil. Under the auspices of the Fulbright, Gwyneth also researched the music of Viktor Ullmann at archives in Europe, which served as a departure point for her ongoing work on the composer. As the Visual Research Assistant to the Los Angeles Opera’s Music Director James Conlon for the opera's 2007 Recovered Voices Project, Gwyneth assisted in the development of the cinematic slide installations accompanying the opera’s inaugural production of works by Walter Braunfels, Erich Korngold, Ernst Krenek, Erwin Schulhoff, Franz Schrecker, Viktor Ullmann, and Alexander Zemlinsky at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Active as lecturer on twentieth century operatic topics, she has served as a presenter for the Los Angeles Opera’s Opera for Educators Program as well as for the Opera Program at UCLA. While Gwyneth focuses primarily on issues relating to exile, nationalism, technology, and war in twentieth-century European music, her research also includes an exploration of diverse lineages of esotericism in the western musical tradition from the seventeenth century to the present. Her dissertation, Staging Death: Allegory in the Operas of Erwin Schulhoff and Viktor Ullmann (2011), examines changing cultural conceptions of death during the first half of the twentieth century with reference to operatic works by these two composers. Gwyneth was the winner of the 2007 Ingolf Dahl Competition for her paper presented at the Joint Meeting of the Pacific Southwest and Northern Chapters of the American Musicological Society. As part of her continued engagement with the work of Ullmann, and for performance in Spring 2012, Gwyneth is developing a multi-media presentation of the composer's 1944 melodrama based on Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke with Belgian pianist Steven Vanhauwaert.

Gwyneth holds a state of California teaching credential in Crosscultural, Language, and Academic Development (CLAD) and has been active as a music educator and cello teacher in both public and private schools since 1998. As a recipient of several Artists in Schools Grants from the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission for teaching music in Sacramento public schools, Gwyneth established the Martin Luther King Jr. Cello Program with a Neighborhoods Art Grant from the commission in 1998. Founded as a non-profit organization, this after-school music program provided group and private cello lessons to students at the Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School for four years.

Gwyneth studied cello with Yehuda Hanani at Peabody Conservatory and later with Janet Horvath and Tanya Remenikova in Minneapolis where she earned her B.A. in Music from the University of Minnesota. While working in Japan for NHK Spring Co. Ltd, Gwyneth studied Japanese taiko and shinobue music and performed with the drum group Nippatsu Taiko. Gwyneth holds an M.M. in Cello from California State University, Sacramento where she was a student of Andrew Luchansky.

As a cello teacher in the Los Angeles area, Gwyneth maintains a private studio and has been active on the board of the Suzuki Music Association of California/Los Angeles, serving as its president from 2007-2009. Presently, Gwyneth works through the Sol La Academy as the cello teacher and pedagogical advisor for the strings program at the St. Anne’s School, which provides music lessons to children from underprivileged communities. Begun in 2010, the strings program at the St. Anne’s school will featured on the forthcoming PBS documentary Arts and the Mind.GWYNETH BRAVO is active in the fields of musicology, music education, and cello pedagogy and is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles where she was a recipient of a President's Fellowship. A winner of a Collegium of University Teaching Fellowship, Gwyneth taught her own seminar on Music and War at UCLA in 2009. As a development of the course, Gwyneth is currently working on two related projects: a co-edited volume on Music of War with ethnomusicologist Benjamin J. Harbert and a collaborative, documentary film with filmmaker David Leaf whose work includes The Night James Brown Saved Boston (2008), and The US vs. John Lennon (2006). Earlier, as a Fulbright scholar at the Musicological Institute of the University of Hamburg in Germany, Gwyneth worked with the research group Exilmusik contributing an article to their book Lebenswege von Musikerinnen im Dritten Reich und im Exil. Under the auspices of the Fulbright, Gwyneth also researched the music of Viktor Ullmann at archives in Europe, which served as a departure point for her ongoing work on the composer. As the Visual Research Assistant to the Los Angeles Opera's Music Director James Conlon for the opera's 2007 Recovered Voices Project, Gwyneth assisted in the development of the cinematic slide installations accompanying the opera's inaugural production of works by Walter Braunfels, Erich Korngold, Ernst Krenek, Erwin Schulhoff, Franz Schrecker, Viktor Ullmann, and Alexander Zemlinsky at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Active as lecturer on twentieth century operatic topics, she has served as a presenter for the Los Angeles Opera's Opera for Educators Program as well as for the Opera Program at UCLA. While Gwyneth focuses primarily on issues relating to exile, nationalism, technology, and war in twentieth-century European music, her research also includes an exploration of diverse lineages of esotericism in the western musical tradition from the seventeenth century to the present. Her dissertation, Staging Death: Allegory in the Operas of Erwin Schulhoff and Viktor Ullmann (2011), examines changing cultural conceptions of death during the first half of the twentieth century with reference to operatic works by these two composers. Gwyneth was the winner of the 2007 Ingolf Dahl Competition for her paper presented at the Joint Meeting of the Pacific Southwest and Northern Chapters of the American Musicological Society. As part of her continued engagement with the work of Ullmann, and for performance in Spring 2012, Gwyneth is developing a multi-media presentation of the composer's 1944 melodrama based on Rainer Maria Rilke's Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke with Belgian pianist Steven Vanhauwaert.
Gwyneth holds a state of California teaching credential in Crosscultural, Language, and Academic Development (CLAD) and has been active as a music educator and cello teacher in both public and private schools since 1998. As a recipient of several Artists in Schools Grants from the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission for teaching music in Sacramento public schools, Gwyneth established the Martin Luther King Jr. Cello Program with a Neighborhoods Art Grant from the commission in 1998. Founded as a non-profit organization, this after-school music program provided group and private cello lessons to students at the Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School for four years.
Gwyneth studied cello with Yehuda Hanani at Peabody Conservatory and later with Janet Horvath and Tanya Remenikova in Minneapolis where she earned her B.A. in Music from the University of Minnesota. While working in Japan for NHK Spring Co. Ltd, Gwyneth studied Japanese taiko and shinobue music and performed with the drum group Nippatsu Taiko. Gwyneth holds an M.M. in Cello from California State University, Sacramento where she was a student of Andrew Luchansky.
As a cello teacher in the Los Angeles area, Gwyneth maintains a private studio and has been active on the board of the Suzuki Music Association of California/Los Angeles, serving as its president from 2007-2009. Presently, Gwyneth works through the Sol La Academy as the cello teacher and pedagogical advisor for the strings program at the St. Anne's School, which provides music lessons to children from underprivileged communities. Begun in 2010, the strings program at the St. Anne's school will featured on the forthcoming PBS documentary Arts and the Mind.