Dr. Galván is the Curator for Music Special Collections at the Free Library of Philadelphia, including the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music – the largest circulating collection of orchestral performance materials in the world - and the Henry S. Drinker Choral Collection. A guitarist, musicologist, author, lecturer, and digital archive specialist, he has presented his original research on 20th- and 21st-century Pan American orchestral music at myriad colloquia across the nation and around the world including the Music and the Moving Image Conference in New York City, the International College Music Society Conference in Bangkok and Ayuthaya, Thailand, and the International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities in Granada, Spain. He has published articles in a wide array of peer-reviewed journals and texts, including American Music, The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, and Musicians and Composers of the Twentieth Century. He is an editor for the latest edition of Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary and is working on a book entitled From Cradle to Grave: Edwin A. Fleisher and the PanAmerican Symphonic Coming of Age.
His research as an historical musicologist and his fascination with grave sculpture and genealogy have driven his participation on Find-a-Grave.

Dr. Galván is the Curator for Music Special Collections at the Free Library of Philadelphia, including the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music – the largest circulating collection of orchestral performance materials in the world - and the Henry S. Drinker Choral Collection. A guitarist, musicologist, author, lecturer, and digital archive specialist, he has presented his original research on 20th- and 21st-century Pan American orchestral music at myriad colloquia across the nation and around the world including the Music and the Moving Image Conference in New York City, the International College Music Society Conference in Bangkok and Ayuthaya, Thailand, and the International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities in Granada, Spain. He has published articles in a wide array of peer-reviewed journals and texts, including American Music, The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, and Musicians and Composers of the Twentieth Century. He is an editor for the latest edition of Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary and is working on a book entitled From Cradle to Grave: Edwin A. Fleisher and the PanAmerican Symphonic Coming of Age.
His research as an historical musicologist and his fascination with grave sculpture and genealogy have driven his participation on Find-a-Grave.