Research Activities
A digest of recent and forthcoming research activities - conference papers, public lectures, pre-concert talks, broadcast talks and compositions, world premieres (**), UK premieres (*) and other performances - is given below. For details of such events from the recent past, please visit individual Staff pages.
21-28 July 2013
Arlene Sierra: Guest Artist, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Maine
14-21 July 2013
Arlene
Sierra: Composer in Residence, Yellow Barn Music Festival, Vermont
24-28 June 2013
Sarah Hill: 'The Heritage of Failure: Marginal Welsh Pop in the Capital City', 17th Biennial Conference of IASPM, Gijón, Spain8, 10, 11 May 2013
Arlene
Sierra: Cuatro Corridos** - Susan Narucki, soprano, Steven Schick, percussion, Aleck Karis, piano, Pablo Gomez, guitar, Conrad Prebys Music Center, UC San Diego
23-30 March 2013
Arlene
Sierra: Artist Residency, Yellow Barn Music Festival, Vermont
21 March 2013
Caroline Rae: 'Messiaen and the piano', Discussion Session, Queen's University Belfast Messiaen mini-festival
20 March 2013
Caroline Rae: 'Myths and Miracles: Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du Temps as musical icon', Keynote Lecture, Queen's University Belfast Messiaen mini-festival
11 March 2013
Arlene
Sierra: Arlene Sierra discusses her music, Institute of Musical Research / Centre for Contemporary Music Practice , Senate House, London
26 February 2013
Arlene Sierra: Visiting Composer, Lecture and Masterclass, Bangor University
21 February 2013
Kenneth Hamilton: Performing and discussing Liszt's piano transcriptions from Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger, Royal Opera House, London
21 February 2013
Robin Stowell: ‘Chaconne à son goût’- performing J. S. Bach’s Ciaccona (from Partita no.2 in D minor for solo violin, BWV1004), Annual Crees Lecture, Royal College of Music, London
12 February 2013
Rob Fokkens: Tracing Lineage: Influence and identity in my chamber music since 2002', John Bird Lecture, School of Music, Cardiff University
5 February 2013
Caroline Rae: 'Marius-François Gaillard's Debussy: the Piano Recordings 1928-30’ , John Bird Lecture, School of Music, Cardiff University
1 February 2013
David Wyn Jones: 'The 'Eroica' Symphony: Setting the agenda and forgetting history', study session at the Royal Northern College of Music
31 January 2013
Rachel Cowgill: '"How Shall We Get Rid of Him?": Burlesquing Don Giovanni on the Early Nineteenth-century London Stage', Canterbury Research Seminars in Music, Canterbury Christ Church University
29 January 2013
Keith Chapin: 'Collisions of Sublimities: The Case of Gellert’s Geistliche Oden und Lieder (1757)', University of Bristol
16 January 2013
David Beard: Speaking at 'Poetry, Music, Drama: the creation of contemporary opera', a one-day conference bringing together poets, composers, producers and academics to discuss the collaborative processes involved in the creation of contemporary opera, Institute of Musical Research, University of London
13 January 2013
Rachel
Cowgill: With Karen Arrandale, 'La Musique sans Frontières: Arthur Eaglefield Hull, Edward J.
Dent and the Reconstruction of Music in Post WWI Britain', Expressions of Britishness: Music and the Arts in the Twentieth Century, Institute of Musical Research, University of London
5 December 2012
Keith Chapin: 'Collisions of Sublimities: The Case of Gellert’s Geistliche Oden und Lieder (1757)', Kings College London
4 December 2012
Amanda Villepastour: 'Talking Tones and Singing Speech among the Yoruba of Southwest Nigeria', John Bird Lecture, School of Music, Cardiff University
2 December 2012
Rachel
Cowgill: ‘Women in Opera’, presentation for Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers: Celebrating
Women in Music and Opera, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Study Day, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
27 November 2012
Kenneth Hamilton: Piano Lecture-Recital, Bramall Music Building Festival, University of Birmingham: "John Ireland: A Semi-Centenary Tribute". Programme to include the Ireland Piano Sonata.
26 November 2012
Arlene Sierra: Moler (European Premiere), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (cond.), BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
22 November 2012
Kenneth Hamilton: "Performance Variants from the Earliest Piano Rolls", Guest Lecture, Royal Academy of Music, London
20 November 2012
Rachel Cowgill: 'Doing the Right Thing for Fighting Men: Music, Morale and the Military in West End Night Clubs, 1914-19', Birmingham Conservatoire
13 November 2012
Keith Chapin: 'Collisions of Sublimities: The Case of Gellert’s Geistliche Oden und Lieder (1757)', University of Birmingham
10 November 2012
Keith Chapin: 'Collisions of Sublimities: The Case of Gellert’s Geistliche Oden und Lieder (1757)', Sublime et musique religieuse de Lalande à Haydn, Poitiers, Francet
6 November 2012
Rachel Cowgill: ‘Doing the Right Thing for Fighting Men: Music, Morale and the Military at Ciro’s Club, London's West End, 1915-19’, Bristol University Music Research Seminar
1-4 November 2012
Kenneth Hamilton: Delivering a paper -"Apres une lecture du Czerny? Liszt's Musical Models" - at the American Musicological Society Annual Conference, New Orleans
30 October 2012
Stephen Walsh: Lecture-forum at the Juilliard School (New York City)
30 October 2012
Claire Holden: 'RIP HIP? Has Period Performance Become an Irrelevance?', John Bird Lecture, School of Music, Cardiff University
30 October 2012
Stephen Walsh: 'Remembering the Rite of Spring', public seminar, Juilliard School, New York
26 October 2012
Kenneth Hamilton: Invited address, Musicology and Performance", for the international conference "Musicology and Professional Practices", Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
26 October 2012
Arlene Sierra: Moler** - new commission for Seattle Symphony. Benaroya Hall, Seattle, conducted by Ludovic Morlot
25-28 October 2012
Stephen Walsh: 'Dyanisos monometrikos', invited paper at Reassessing The Rite conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
22 October 2012
Arlene Sierra: Meditation on Violence** - New work for ensemble to accompany the Maya Deren film, Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (cond.), The Warehouse, London
21 October 2012
Stephen Walsh: 'Remembering the Rite of Spring', public lecture, Amherst College, Massachusetts
20 October 2012
David Wyn Jones: 'Haydn, Austria and Britain: Music, Culture and European Politics in the 1790s', European Romanticism 1780-1840 interdisciplinary symposium, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
20 October 2012
Stephen Walsh: Student seminar on Stravinsky, Amherst College, Massachusetts
19 October 2012
Stephen Walsh: 'Remembering the Rite of Spring', public lecture, Bowdoin College, Maine
16 October 2012
Stephen Walsh: 'Remembering the Rite of Spring', public lecture, Bard College, New York
15 October 2012
Stephen Walsh: Student class on 'Stravinsky monometrics' and public lecture on the Russian Kuchka, Williams College, Massachusetts
9 October 2012
Kenneth Hamilton: 'The Unofficial Version: Rediscovering Liszt's Legacy to his Students', John Bird Lecture, School of Music, Cardiff University
28 September 2012
Arlene Sierra: Insects in Amber - Carducci Quartet, Bromsgrove Concerts at Artrix, England
11 September 2012
Kenneth Gloag:Paper on Sir Michael Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage, Operatic Masculinities conference, Oxford Brookes University
5-7 September 2012
Sarah Hill: 'A Night at the Avalon', IASPM-UK/Ireland 2012 conference, University of Salford18 August 2012
Arlene Sierra: Art of Lightness, Lecture Recital with Lisa Nelsen, British Flute Society Eighth International Convention, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
7 July 2012
Stephen Walsh: Pre-concert talk on Stravinsky's Cantata, Wigmore Hall, London
6 July 2012
Amanda Villepastour: 'Talking Tones and Singing Speech Among the Yoruba of Southwest Nigeria', Workshop Relationships of Speech Tone and Music - organised by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Phonogrammarchiv & Institute for Corpus LInguistics and Text Technology (ICLTT), Vienna.
1-7 July 2012
Keith Chapin: 'Counterpoint and Nature: Strategies of Legitimation in the Long Eighteenth Century', 19th Congress of the International Musicological Society, Rome
2 June 2012
Rachel Cowgill: ‘Burlesquing the Don on the early nineteenth-century London stage', Love to Death: Transforming Opera conference, Wales Millennium Centre
31 May 2012
David Beard:'Birtwistle's The Io Passion: Wagnerian opera transformed', Love to Death: Transforming Opera conference, Wales Millennium Centre
11 May 2012
Amanda Villepastour: 'Giving voice to musical instruments in an African gallery', lunchtime lecture at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
10-12 May 2012
Nicholas Jones: 'Interlacings: reflections on issues of autobiography in two works by Peter Maxwell Davies', New Music in Britain, Canterbury Christ Church University
16 April 2012
Rachel Cowgill: ‘Borderland Views of the British Musical Renaissance: The Cultural Politics of the English Eisteddfod', International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres, Annual Study Weekend 2012, Cardiff University
13 April 2012
David Wyn Jones: Keynote Address, International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres, Annual Study Weekend 2012, Cardiff University
13 April 2012
Arlene Sierra: Colmena - Oberlin Contemporary Ensemble, Warner Concert Hall, OH
12-13 April 2012
Arlene Sierra: Composition Master Class, Ewha Women's University, Seoul, South Korea
4-18 April 2012
Arlene Sierra: Composition Master Class, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
4-5 April 2012
Robin Stowell and Claire Holden: Presenting papers at Authorship and Authenticity in Composition, Editing and Performance, CHASE 2012 Conference, University of Leeds
3 April 2012
Robin Stowell: Official launch of The Cambridge History of Musical Performance (eds. Lawson & Stowell), London
13 March 2012
Rob Fokkens: Flytrap - Welsh premiere of a new piece for vocal trio. EXAUDI, Cardiff University Concert Hall.
12 March 2012
Rob Fokkens: Flytrap - world premiere of a new piece for vocal trio. EXAUDI, Kings Place, London.
6 March 2012
Arlene Sierra: Truel (Complete) - world premiere of clarinet version. New Music Players, Cardiff University Concert Hall
29 February - 3 March 2012
Caroline Rae:'Marius-François Gaillard's Debussy: Performances and Recordings - Controversy and Legacy', University of Montréal international conference 'Debussy's Legacy'
29 February 2012
Robin Stowell: Publication date for The Cambridge History of Musical Performance (ed. Lawson & Stowell)
24 February 2012
Sarah Hill: 'Mapio Canu Pop Cymraeg/Mapping Welsh Pop', at the 11th Conference of the Centre for Advanced Welsh Music Studies, Y Drwm, Aberystwyth31 January 2012
Arlene Sierra: 'Texts and Personas', public lecture at Victoria Rooms, Bristol University
28 January 2012
Robin Stowell: Interview with Julian Lloyd Webber for BBC Radio 3's The Cellists that Time Forgot
18 January 2012
David Ponsford: Sweelinck 450th anniversary organ recital, the Queen's College, Oxford
January 2012
Clair Rowden: ‘Jules Massenet: pour l’amour de l’opéra’, Célébration Jules Massenet, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
12 January 2012
Robin Stowell: Workshop in historical performance, Welsh Sinfonia, Cardiff
9 January 2012
Caroline Rae: BBC Radio 3 'Afternoon on 3' interview with Katie Derham discussing the music of André Jolivet
16 December 2011
Robin Stowell: Workshop in historical performance, William Mathias Music Service, Bangor
8-9 December 2011
Kenneth Gloag:'Canon Formation and the Postmodern Condition', Symposium on Radical Music History at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki
2 December 2011
Caroline Rae:'Discovering Jolivet', BBC Hoddinott Hall, introductory talk, with Christine Jolivet-Erlih, for BBC National Orchestra of Wales André Jolivet: Composer Portrait
19 November 2011
David Beard:Talk at an evening celebrating the 30th anniversary of Sir Peter Hall's famous National Theatre production of The Oresteia, The Taylorian, Oxford
18 November 2011
Amanda Villepastour: Moving Song and Singing Moves in Transatlantic Yoruba Music. Conference paper, Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) annual meeting, Philadelphia.
10 November 2011
Rachel Cowgill:'Filling the Void: Theosophy, Modernity, and the Rituals of Armistice Day in the Reception of John Foulds's A World Requiem': Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, San Francisco
4-7 November 2011
Caroline Rae:'Alejo Carpentier's Parisian Chronicles', University of Ottawa international conference Music Criticism in France in the Interwar Period (1918-1939)
28 October 2011
Rachel Cowgill:'Woman's Work (Music): Mary Wakefield and the Competitive Music Festival in Britain', Oxford University History Faculty/Elgar Society Seminar
10 October 2011
Sarah Hill: 'Psychedelica and Its High Other in 1960s San Francisco,' Stanford University Department of Music
21 July 2011
Arlene Sierra: Truel I, Peabody Trio, Yellow Barn Music Festival, Vermont
8 July 2011
Arlene Sierra: Insects in Amber*, Carducci Quartet, Cheltenham International Music Festival
July 2011
Amanda Villepastour: Yoruba Orisa Songs in Transatlantic Perspective. Public lecture, Institute for African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
14 May 2011
Arlene Sierra: Faustine (Scenes 1 to 4) for five voices and orchestra**, New York City Opera VOX, Skirball Auditorium, NY
8 April 2011
Amanda Villepastour: Video Production and Use at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM), Phoenix: A Case History. Conference paper, the British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE) meeting, Falmouth.
4-5 April 2011
David Beard: Invited academic and public talks and participation in workshops on emotion communication in music, with emphasis on the vocal functions underlying the production of affect bursts and speech prosody, in conjunction with singers and instrumentalists performing Daniel Kramer’s award winning production of Birtwistle’s Punch and Judy. The Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, the University of Geneva, and the Grand Theatre de Genève, 4–5 April 2011
3 April 2011
Arlene Sierra: String Quartet Insects in Amber**, Carducci Quartet, Stanford Lively Arts series, California
21 October 2010
Arlene Sierra: of Risk and Memory, Shirley Yoo and Stephen Buck, pianos, LotUS League of the Unsound Sound Premiere Concert, Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA
6 October 2010
Arlene Sierra: The Art of Lightness**, Rowland Sutherland, flute, Lontano Festival of American Music, The Warehouse, London
5 October 2010
Arlene Sierra: Counting-Out Rhyme, Lontano Festival of American Music, The Warehouse, London
2 October 2010
Arlene Sierra: Piano Concerto Art of War**, Broadcast of Piano Concerto Art of War on BBC Radio Three Hear and Now
10 September 2010
Arlene Sierra: Piano Concerto 'Art of War'**, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Huw Watkins (piano), Baldur Brönniman, conductor, Vale of Glamorgan Festival, BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
9 September
Arlene Sierra: Piano Concerto Art of War**, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Huw Watkins, piano, Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor, Vale of Glamorgan Festival, BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
17 July 2010
Arlene Sierra: Two Neruda Odes, Susan Narucki, soprano; Kacy Clopton, cello; Michael Bukhman, piano, The Big Barn, Yellow Barn Music School and Festival, Putney, Vermont
19 June 2010
Adrian Thomas: 'Chopin as Symbol', pre-festival talk on Chopin and Polish music, St Magnus Festival, Orkney
2 June 2010
Arlene Sierra: Hearing Things, Frauke Aulbert, soprano, Thorsten Kuhn, piano, U.S. Consulate General, Hamburg, Germany
5 May 2010
Adrian Thomas: pre-concert talk on Szymanowski, Piotr Anderszewski (piano) and Belcea Quartet, Wigmore Hall, London
7-8 April 2010
Adrian Thomas: 'Lutoslawski and Literature', Lutoslawski Colloquium, Cornell University NY
19 March 2010
David Beard: 'When Actors Meet Musicians: Harrison Birtwistle, Dominic Muldowney, Tony Harrison and "the Agamemnon Experiments" at London's National Theatre', lecture and seminar, University of Aberdeen
9 March 2010
Arlene Sierra: Counting-Out Rhyme; Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez, artistic director, University Concert Hall,Cardiff
28 February 2010
Robin Stowell: 'Performance Practice in Beethoven', Study Day on Beethoven's Symphonies, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Purcell Room, London
25 February 2010
John Morgan O'Connell: ‘Turkey in Operas, Operas in Turkey’, Northwestern University, Illinois
22-23 February 2010
John Morgan O'Connell: ‘Singing Alaturka, Singing Alafranga’, Haverford College and Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania