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. She has published an article on medieval liturgy in the Rodopi series Faux Titre and her forthcoming chapter on the Bassanos and King Henry VIII will appear in Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy this spring (IU Press).
Dongmyung also specializes in the performance practice of music from the medieval era to the eighteenth century. She is co-founder of Duo Custos, a medieval duo that focuses on music of the fourteenth century. She regularly performs with Green Mountain Vespers, 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. She can be heard on recordings of the Raritan Players and the Sebastians.
A dedicated educator, Dongmyung has taught music history at Queens College, Rutgers University, and Vassar College, and is the director of the Queens College Baroque Ensemble. 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.