Rebecca Marchand is Professor of Core Studies (Music History) at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

A founding member of the Haydn Society of North America, Marchand also served as the president of the New England chapter of the American Musicological Society from 2012 to 2016. She has held previous teaching and lecturing positions at Boston University, Longy School of Music of Bard College, Clark University, and Providence College. Her doctoral dissertation, The Impact of the Second Vatican Council on the Concert Mass in the United States examined the intersection of liturgical concerns and the formation of the mass as a concert genre. Marchand’s essay “Missa Eclectica: Lou Harrison and Artistic Ideologies after Vatican II” appears in Qui musicam in se habet: Studies in Honor of Alejandro Enrique Planchart, edited by Anna Zayaruznaya, Bonnie Blackburn, and Stanley Boorman (American Institute of Musicology, 2015).

 Marchand earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in musicology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She also holds a P.S.C. in performing arts administration from Emerson College. A mezzo-soprano, she sang with The Spectrum Singers from 2007 to 2011, served on the Board, and as a social media volunteer.