Research
My research includes the following areas:
- Performance practice and history in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- Aesthetics of performance and reception
- Transcription, arrangement and appropriation
Here is a 2004 paper on the simulation of live performance in the music video:
Capturing life and selling the mix- the simulation of live performance in the music video
Here is a list of selected publications:
Forthcoming | ‘From transcendental to trance: a cross-cultural approach to virtuosity in performance’, Musica Scientiae |
2018 | ‘Perspectives on the Barenboim-Said Akademie in a post-colonial world’, Reflective Conservatoire Conference, London (February 2018) |
2017 | ‘Mapping trends and framing issues in higher music education: Changing minds/changing practices’, London Review of Education, Vol. 15, no. 3, November 2017 |
2016 | ‘Mapping Trends and Framing Issues in Higher Music Education: Changing Minds/Challenging Practices’, ISME World Conference (July 2016) |
2016 | ‘Putting the trance into transcendental: a cross-cultural approach to virtuosity in performance’, Performance Studies Network Conference, Bath Spa University (July 2016) |
2016 | ‘Vanity or heroism: tracing virtuosity across musical cultures’, Interdisciplinary Symposium on Virtuosity, Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, (March 2016) |
2013 | ‘Towards an understanding of four hands: Vaporize‘, With Four Hands Conference, promoted by Middlesex University, Institute of Musical Research, and AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (July 2013) |
2013 | ‘Anatomy of a festival: programming, reception and impact of the Bath International Music Festival (1948-2012)’. Kingston University Research Seminar (April 2013) |
2009 | ‘I weave for you a marvellous web’, Sixth Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900, Keele University (July 2009) |
2008 | ‘Strauss’s Ständchen: pianistic response and legacy’, Performing Romantic Music Conference, Durham University (July 2008) |
2006 | ‘Creativity, originality and value in musical performance’, Musical Creativity (ESCOM), co-authored with Aaron Williamon, Sam Thompson and Tania Lisboa |
2005 | ‘Playing with the alter ego: control, vanity and selflessness in multi-tracking’, Creative production for classical music conference (King’s College London, sponsored by CHARM, Thames Valley University and Royal Holloway, 5 June 2006) |
2006 | ‘The reflective conservatoire: teaching, learning, research’, co-authored paper with Rosie Burt, Janet Mills and Hilary Moore, The Reflective Conservatoire Conference (GSMD, 16-18 February 2006) |
2006 | ‘Enesco and the class of 1896’, Music and Ideas public seminar, presented jointly with Nathaniel Vallois (Royal College of Music, 2 March 2006) |
2005 | Eyewitness Companion Guide to Classical Music (London: Dorling Kindersley), jointly authored |
2004 | ‘Singing a borrowed song: appropriation and authority in changing media’, Music and Media Conference (Harvard University) |
1999 | ‚Das Post-2000 Konservatorium: Relevanz und Reaktion’, Conference Proceedings of Kunst Curriculum ’99 (Linz, 1999) |
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