Below you’ll find a list of conference papers and research seminars delivered since 2005. I’ve also been involved in organising several conferences at the Royal College of Music: ‘Brahms in the Home’ in 2011 (which has provided the bases for a co-edited book due to be published in 2014) and ‘Singing a Song in a Foreign Land’ in 2014, part of a major European project on the role of émigré musicians in twentieth-century British musical life. As the Membership Development Officer of the Royal Musical Association, I have been a member of the Conference Organising Committee for RMA Annual Conferences in 2016, 2017 and 2018.

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2016
‘Natalia Macfarren and the English German Lied’, 19th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music (University of Oxford)

2014
‘”A man of many hobbies…”: Alan Adair and the concerts of the Adair War Wounded Fund’, IAML annual conference (Antwerp)
‘”… a modest little violet that blossomed hidden from the world”: the public faces of the German Lied, 1850-1914’, 18th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-century Music (University of Toronto)
‘Stars, Sterne, Stelle’, a Q&A session with Leo Black on the BBC in the 1950s, Singing a Song in a Foreign Land (Royal College of Music)
‘”In a small circle of friends…”: Brahms’s Vocal Quartets and making music at home, Research Colloquium (University of Oxford)

2013
‘”For one night only…”: The Story of the Concert Programme’, [joint presentation with Dr. Rupert Ridgewell], Research Seminar (Royal College of Music)
‘A “tribute to public taste”: the vocal quartet in twentieth-century British concert life’, IAML annual conference (University of Vienna)

2012
‘Singing a Song in a Foreign Land: Hans Gál and the Edinburgh Festival’, Continental Britons / Verfolgt, vertrieben – vergessen? (Akademie für Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur, Schwerin, Germany)
‘At home, in concert, and without words? The performance and reception of Brahms’s Liebeslieder op.52′, Brahms in the New Century (American Brahms Society, New York)

2011
‘Love Songs from Switzerland: Hans Huber’s Vocal Quartets in Context’, Radical Music History (Sibelius Academy, Helsinki)
‘The practical matters of programming text: approaching vocal music beyond the traditional Lied’ [joint presentation with Dr. Natasha Loges], Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (Glasgow University)
‘Music inside the home and outside the box: Brahms’s vocal quartets in context’, Brahms in the Home (Royal College of Music)

2010
‘From Liebeslieder to Liederspiele: Brahms’s vocal quartets in context’, 16th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-century Music (University of Southampton)
‘When is a choir not a choir? Vocal quartets in nineteenth-century Germany’, The Choir – Artistic, Pedagogical and Scholarly Perspectives’ (Sibelius Academy, Helsinki)
‘Of performers, publishers and pigeons: exploring the vocal quartets of Johannes Brahms’, Research Seminar (University of Bristol)
‘Rediscovering a Lost Repertoire: the vocal quartets of Johannes Brahms’, Research Seminar (Royal College of Music)

2009
‘Using Hofmeister: Brahms and Mahler’ [joint presentation with Prof. Paul Banks], IAML/IMS Conference (Conservatorium van Amsterdam)
‘From composer, to concert, to compact disc: tracing the reception and performance history of Brahms’s Liebeslieder-walzer opp.52 & 65’, CUK Research Students’ conference (Trinity Laban)
‘What’s in a name? Brahms’s Vocal Quartets and the danger of definitions’, Guest Lecture (University of Roehampton)

2008
‘Brahms’s quartets for voice and piano: cross-currents in performance practice’, Performing Romantic Music: Theory and Practice (University of Durham)
‘‘They come to you and ask if they might stay and set up home’: the vocal quartets of Johannes Brahms’, 15th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-century Music (University College, Dublin)

2007
‘From pigeonholes to pigeons: Brahms, Hausmusik and interdisciplinary scholarship’, RMA Study Day ‘Music and (Con)text’ (University of Nottingham)
‘Of singers and socialising: the Vocal Quartets of Johannes Brahms’, RMA Research Students’ Conference (University of Bristol)

2006
‘From Ariel to Dov: expansion and extraction of the Shakespearean ‘lyric moment’ in the works of Michael Tippett’, RMA Research Students’ Conference (University of Leeds)

2005
‘Faustian transformations, cultural translation and generic transference: Goethe on the French musical stage in the 1840s and 1850s’, RMA Research Students’ Conference (Universities of Durham & Newcastle)