Stories and Lessons from the Worlds Leading Opera, Orchestra Librarians, and Music Archivists, Volume 1: North and South America

About Patrick LoRobert SutherlandRuss GirsbergerWei-En Hsu

Patrick Lo is currently serving as the Director International Library & Cultural Services Consultancy Ltd. From 2012-2018 he served as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Library Information & Media Science the University of Tsukuba in Japan. He earned his Doctor of Education from the University of Bristol (U.K.) and has a Master of Arts in Design Management from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University a Master of Library & Information Science from McGill University (Canada) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Mount Allison University (Canada). Robert Sutherland recently retired as the Chief Librarian at the Metropolitan Opera where he served from 1993 to 2020. Prior to joining the Metropolitan Opera he served as the Principal Librarian at Canadian Opera Company and Principal Librarian of the National Arts Centre Orchestra. He has served three terms as President of MOLA: An Association of Music Performance Librarians. In April 2016 he was a featured speaker at the Music Performance Art and Neuroscience in Dialogue symposium in Tübingen Germany. Wei-En Hsu is Associate Professor at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and was awarded the Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in 2017. In recent years Mr. Hsu has established himself as an early music specialist in Baroque opera and the art of recitative for pianists.Winner of the 2010 Los Angeles International Liszt Piano Competition with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from National University of the Arts and Master of Music from The Julliard School and The Royal Academy of Music. Russ Girsberger is the Librarian for the Naval School of Music in Virginia Beach Virginia. He is the author of A Manual for the Performance Library (Music Library Association Basic Manual Series); A Practical Guide to Percussion Terminology; Percussion Assignments for Band and Wind Ensemble; co-author of The Music Performance Library: A Practical Guide for Orchestra Band and Opera Librarians; Sourcebook for Wind Band and Instrumental Music; and co-editor of Insights and Essays on the Music Performance Library (all published by Meredith Music Publications). He has worked as a librarian with the United States Marine Band in Washington D.C. the Percussive Arts Society the New England Conservatory and The Juilliard School.