Currently a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, Lois Musmann is a Fulbright Teaching Senior Specialist in music and a conductor who also teaches at Notre Dame de Namur University. She is the author of a recent national survey of professional women conductors in partnership with the Women's Philharmonic, and has written for the University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection. Dr. Musmann has conducted Mozart's The Magic Flute and Enrique Gonzales' opera Serafina y Archangela, a world premiere in Los Angeles and the Tijuana Cultural Center. She was conductor of the Euterpe Opera Theatre in Los Angeles and founder and conductor of Pacifica Chamber Orchestra and of the Collegium Musicum, University of Redlands. She chaired several sessions of the International College Music Society Conference in Vienna and is the recipient of awards and grants from several institutions. She holds degrees from New England Conservatory, University
of Southern California and University of Redlands.