Sterling Lambert

Sterling Lambert is a Professor of Music and Department Chair in the Performing Arts Department at St. Mary's College of Maryland. He specializes in text-music relationships and intertextuality in 19th and 20th-century music.

• Born in London (1968)
• Teaches courses in Music Theory, Music History, and World Music
• Published two books: Re-reading Poetry (2009) and Britten's Gods (2024)

Education:

• B.A. in Music, University of Cambridge (1990)
• M.Phil. in Musicology, University of Cambridge (1991)
• Ph.D. in Music History, Yale University (2000)

Dr. Lambert's research explores how composers like Franz Schubert and Benjamin Britten engage with literary texts and the influence of earlier composers on their work. His publications analyze Schubert's multiple settings of Goethe's poetry and Britten's dialogues with Purcell, Mahler, and Mozart.

His recent work Britten's Gods (2024) systematically investigates Britten's creative debts to six composers through genre-specific comparisons, including War Requiem (Bach), Death in Venice (Mozart), and Second String Quartet (Purcell).