Background
Bathia Dina Churgin was born: 9 October 1928 in New York City. Emigration to Israel, 1970, has dual citizenship: US/Israel
Bathia Dina Churgin was born: 9 October 1928 in New York City. Emigration to Israel, 1970, has dual citizenship: US/Israel
Bathia Dina Churgin entered in High School of Music and Art, New York City, 1942-46. than she graduated in 1950 from Hunter College, CUNY, where Louise Talma was among her teachers. During the summers of 1950 and 1951 she studied music theory with Nadia Boulanger at Fontainebleau. She received the MA from Radcliffe College in 1952 and the PhD from Harvard University in 1963; at Harvard she studied theory with Piston and music history with Gombosi. Jan LaRue was her unofficial dissertation advisor together with Pirrotta.
Bathia Dina Churgin taught at Vassar College from 1952–57, 1959–71 where she was promoted from instructor to professor. She was also visiting professor in eight music departments and music schools: the Harvard Summer School (1963), Northwestern University Summer School (1976), Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem (Summer 1977), Tel-Aviv University (1972), the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1973). She also was Head of Department of Musicology at Bar-Ilan University, 1970-84.
Bathia Dina Churgin was appointed as aMember of the committee for the Israel Prize in Music, 1974, Member of the Professional Committee for Appointments and Promotions, Rubin Academy of Music, 1975-87, Member of the Advisory Board of the American Beethoven Society, 1986, was elected in the Hunter College of the City of New York (CUNY) Hall of Fame, 1986.She also was an organizer of the first Beethoven international conferences in Israel, Bar-Ilan, 1987,1994/ Organizer of the first Mozart international conference in Israel, Bar Ilan, 1991. Organizer of two concerts of music by women composers, Bar-Ilan, 1992, 1996. Organizer of three concerts of unknown Classic symphonies and chamber music by Italian and French composers, and an all-Sammartini concert, at Bar-Ilan, 1980, 1981 (Tel Aviv), 1990, 1993. Member, Editorial Board of the journal The Beethoven Forum, 1992-97.Member of the Advisory Board of the journal Ad Parnassum , 2001 as a Corresponding Member of the American Musicological Society, 2007 and as Honorary Member of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, 2009. Organizer of a conference in honor of the 80th birthday of Prof. Joachim Braun, Bar-Ilan, 2011.
