Mark Ferraguto

Rebekah Ahrendt and Damien Mahiet, of Music and Diplomacy from the Early Modern Era to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Hailed as "outstanding" (Kendra Preston Leonard, H-Net Reviews), this multidisciplinary volume examines musical concepts and practices within the longue durée of worldwide diplomacy. Other publications have focused on Haydn's minimalism, Beethoven's use of Russian folk songs, musical diplomats in 18th-century Vienna, and more. His article in Music and Letters, "Representing Russia: Luxury and Diplomacy at the Razumovsky Palace in Vienna, 1803-1815," won the journal's Westrup Prize "for an article of particular distinction." 

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Ferraguto is an Associate of the American Guild of Organists and a recipient of the Guild’s AAGO Prize. He is the organist at Faith United Church of Christ in downtown State College and performs frequently on organ and harpsichord. He serves on the executive boards of the Haydn Society of North America and the AGO’s State College chapter and on the editorial boards of Eighteenth-Century Music and String Quartets in Beethoven's Europe (A-R Editions).  He is also on the faculty of Chamber Music Collective, an intensive summer workshop on period instruments.

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He has received grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the DAAD, and the American Musicological Society. In 2017, he was a research associate at the IES Abroad Vienna Center, where he also guest lectured.  He is Professor of Musicology at the Penn State School of Music, having joined the faculty in 2013.