Peter Kohanski

Peter Kohanski is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at the University of North Texas where he also teaches an introductory class on music and culture. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in music history and literature from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and awarded the Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award. His dissertation examines G.F. Handel's music, musical monuments, and notions of belonging and identity in the eighteenth-century British Empire. His other notable research project focuses on Carpatho-Rusyn plainchant and engages frameworks from sound, performance, and media studies. Peter has presented his research at the Handel Institute’s 2021 conference, "Handel: Interactions and Influences," in London, at regional meetings of the American Musicological Society, and at conferences of the North American British Music Studies Association and the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music. With a related field in choral conducting, he also remains an engaged choral musician at UNT.