Prof. Carol Reynolds

Biography

Prof. Carol Reynolds is a musicologist who specialises in Russian, East European, and German cultural history.

During her career as a professor of music history at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, she founded and directed her university’s German study program in Weimar. Since 2011, she has worked extensively as an expert for the travel division of the Smithsonian Institute, leading tours through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, the Baltic countries, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Croatia, and Slovenia. She also has led tours to Russia on behalf of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Opera.

A proponent of teaching history through the lens of the Fine Arts, Carol has brought her wealth of knowledge to audiences of all ages, presenting programs for every significant arts organization in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. She also worked for 25 years as the pre-concert lecturer for the Van Cliburn Concert Series.

Born in Roanoke, Virginia, she earned her Bachelor’s of Music at Hollins College, Virginia,  and her Master’s degree in piano and Ph.D. in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was awarded a State Department grant to conduct dissertation research at the Leningrad Conservatory and returned to Russia many times for research. She speaks Russian and German fluently and has lived at various times in Germany.

Recently moving with her family to North Carolina, Carol spends much of her time as a curriculum developer, and consultant engaged in the revival of Classical Education. With her husband Hank, a music theorist and copyright attorney, she has written books and created courses in history and the Fine Arts. She works closely with Memoria Press, Classical Academic Press, the Circe Institute, and teaches in a Great Books Masters’ Program at Memoria College.