A versatile musician and well-rounded scholar, Lidia Chang double majored in Flute Performance and Music History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She went on to earn a Master's in Historical Performance on the Baroque flute at McGill’s Schulich School of Music, a second Master’s in Historical Musicology at the University of Massachusetts, and a PhD in Musicology from the City University of New York. Lidia has had the pleasure of performing with a number of period instrument ensembles including Arcadia Players, Dorian Baroque, and Ensemble Musica Humana, of which she is a founding member. She has released two albums of Regency era dance music (Twelve Cotillions by Giovanni Gallini, 1770 and Country Dances by Thomas Skillern, 1781), which can be heard on the BBC’s adaptation of Poldark. As a scholar, Lidia’s primary focus is on the intersection of literature, gender, material culture, and music performance practices in the long eighteenth century. She has served as the managing editor for Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture and has presented her research at the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual and regional meetings, the American Musical Instrument Society, the Galpin Society, the American Musicological Society, the North American British Music Studies Association, and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Lidia currently lives in Paris where she works as a freelance flutist and researcher.
