Dr. Ann Glazer Niren, Life Member, Hadassah Louisville, serves as the Curator of Jewish Collections at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky. Previously, she taught piano, music history, and music appreciation courses at Indiana University Southeast, for which she won three awards for excellence in teaching. Additionally, she served as the pianist/music director at Temple Shalom in Louisville for three decades, as well as playing for dozens of performers, and for social and life cycle functions. Dr. Niren’s research centers on Jewish music, specifically on Leonard Bernstein’s life, career, and music. She has contributed articles to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Journal for the Society of American Music, Notes, The American Jewish Archives Journal, and Journal of Synagogue Music, among others, and she penned a chapter for the book, Bernstein in Context. Dr. Niren is currently writing a biography of Louisville native, Mildred Hill, the composer of “Happy Birthday.”
