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Curriculum Vitae

Chanda VanderHart, PhD, MA is a musicologist at the Department of Music Acoustics — Wiener Klangstil (IWK), where her research sits at the intersection of historical musicology and the Digital Humanities. At the IWK she collaborates closely with David M. Weigl beginning with the FWF project Signature Sound Vienna (2022–2025) FWF P 34664-G, which treated the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concerts and the Strauss repertoire as a multimodal research object and produced, alongside a FAIR, MEI-encoded corpus, the musicologist-facing tools Listen Here! and PRIMAL. Since December 2025 they have worked on the FWF science-communication project Same Procedure Every Year?, and now co-convene the international Distinguished Lecture Series Music and Digital Humanities at the mdw.

Beyond her work at the IWK, VanderHart is Senior Scientist at the Centre for Applied Music Research (ZAM) at the University for Continuing Education Krems, where from August 2026 she leads the project Composing Change. Orchestral Impact in European Societies, funded by the Province of Lower Austria. She earned her doctorate summa cum laude at the mdw in 2016 and the University of Vienna's Data Steward certification in 2023; her monograph Lieder & Performance in Nineteenth-Century Vienna is forthcoming with Oxford University Press, accompanied by curated recordings on historical instruments.

Research Areas
●    Lied and song culture in nineteenth-century Vienna
●    Digital musicology
●    Gender studies in music
●    Collaborative piano, accompaniment, and performance studies
●    Women composers and women’s musical production in institutional and social performance contexts
●    Artistic research and performer-researcher methodologies
●    FAIR/open-data practices and research data management
●    The Strauss family and the Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concerts
●    Music institutions, cultural policy, and professionalization
●    Reception history, festival culture, and cultural authority
●    Science communication and public musicology

Current Projects
●    Same Procedure Every Year? — FWF science-communication project, IWK / mdw (since 2025)
●    Distinguished Lecture Series Music and Digital Humanities, mdw (co-conception and co-direction, with David Weigl, 2026)
●    Composing Change. Orchestral Impact in European Societies — ZAM, University for Continuing Education Krems (project lead from Aug. 2026; funded by the Province of Lower Austria)

Selected Publications
●    "'Building' or 'Bullshit'? AI-assisted Making and the EUYO Concert Explorer," in Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM 2026), ACM (first author, with D. M. Weigl and W. Goebl).
●    "Hand in Hand; Strauss' Kaiser-Walzer as a Case Study of Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Digital Musicology," in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Oxford University Press, 2025 (first author, with D. M. Weigl).
●    "Listen Here! A Web-native Digital Musicology Environment for Machine-assisted Close Listening," in Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM '23), ACM, 2023 (with D. M. Weigl et al.).
●    "The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra's New Year's Concerts: Building a FAIR Data Corpus for Musicology," in Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM '22), ACM, 2022 (with D. M. Weigl et al.).
●    "19th Century Women in Music: MuGI, Sophie Drinker, Art Song Augmented & BID," in Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Cambridge University Press, 2024.
●    Lieder & Performance in Nineteenth-Century Vienna, Oxford University Press (in press; with accompanying recordings on historical instruments).
●    Accompaniment in America: Contextualizing Collaborative Piano, Routledge / Taylor & Francis, 2025 (primary author and editor; with an accompanying digital repository). Online: https://accompanimentinamerica.website/