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Theodora is a second-year PhD student in the musicology program at Cornell University and a professional pianist and collaborator. Her interdisciplinary research covers various themes such as Brahms and the history of virtuosity, lateness and Beethoven, affect theory and gender studies. Theodora received a B.A. in Music and English and a minor in German Studies from UC Berkeley, where she completed an honors thesis for each major. She is currently studying piano with Xak Bjerken, and is also interested in continuing her studies of historically informed performance with Malcolm Bilson. Her performance awards include first place in the Pacific Musical Society, American Fine Arts Festival, Young Pianists’ Beethoven and MTAC Concerto competitions, and some of the orchestras she has performed works like Brahms's and Prokofiev's Second concertos with include the UCBSO, Saratoga Symphony, Kostroma Symphony Orchestra and the Lublin Chamber Orchestra.