Paula Maust

Paula Maust is a performer, scholar, and educator dedicated to fusing research and creative practice to amplify underrepresented voices. She is the creator of Expanding the Music Theory Canon, an open-source collection of music theory examples by women and people of color. A book based on the project was released by SUNY Press in 2024. Paula is also an early modern area editor for Grove Music Online Women, Gender, and Sexuality Project and is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. She performs extensively in the region as a harpsichordist and organist and is a co-director of Musica Spira, a DC-based ensemble that tells the stories of early modern women musicians.