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Conductor, vocal coach, and keyboard accompanist (piano and harpsichord).

Early Music performance practice (harpsichord and continuo).

Special fields: piano and fortepiano, 18th- through 21st-century performance practice, rhetoric and music, early recordings and musical style, the piano music of Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Brahms, Ives, and Bartók. Studied with Peter Armstrong, Jon Barlow, Malcolm Bilson, and John Kirkpatrick.

Appearances as recitalist, as soloist with orchestra, and as musicologist throughout the U.S. and Central Europe.

NEH Fellow, 1989.

Special fields: historic recordings and performance styles, late 19th and early 20th century performance practice.

Studies with Louis Nagel and Marc Silverman. Historical performance studies with Edward Parmentier, Ken Cooper, and Will Crutchfield. Chamber music studies with Anton Nel, Michael Tree, and Daniel Avshalamov.

Solo, chamber, and concerto performances throughout U.S., Canada, England, Hungary. Solo and ensemble performances on harpsichord.
 

Studied composition with Paolo Ugoletti, Glenn Glasow, Wayne Peterson, and Jody Rockmaker.

Numerous compositions, including songs for voice and various combinations of instruments, several orchestral, choral and band pieces, string quartets, and the operas La povertà, Lot’s Women, and Oxford Companions.

Recipient of the Walter J. Gores award for excellence in teaching (2003-04), Stanford's highest award.

Applebaum received his Ph.D. in composition from the University of California at San Diego where he studied principally with Brian Ferneyhough.  His solo, chamber, choral, orchestral, operatic, and electroacoustic work has been performed throughout North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia with notable performances at the Darmstadt Sessions.