Early string specialist Dongmyung Ahn is a performer, educator, and scholar whose interests span from the twelfth to eighteenth centuries. Her research in music of the medieval and early modern periods in Europe centers around the liturgy and Jewish-Christian relations. Her publications include articles on medieval liturgy, Jewish-Christian relations in Henry VIII's court, and a book review on gender and voice in the Journal of the American Musicological Society. She has also written for Huffington Post about her experience as a stuttering music history professor.
As a performer, she regularly appears with Duo Custos, Pegasus, Raritan Players, The Sebastians, and TENET Vocal Artists, and has played rebec in the critically acclaimed production of The Play of Daniel at the Cloisters (MET Museum).
A dedicated educator, Dongmyung has taught music history at Columbia, Queens College, Rutgers, and Vassar. She studied baroque violin with Stanley Ritchie at Indiana University where she received her BM and MM in Early Music. She received her PhD in musicology at the CUNY Graduate Center.