Presentations

CONFERENCES

  • Tracking the Creative Process in Music Second International Conference: co-authored paper with Nicole Lizée: ‘Layers of creativity in composition, rehearsal and performance: Nicole Lizée and the Kronos Quartet’, Université de Montréal, Canada. 10-13 October 2013.
  • Performance in the Studio online conference: ‘Discourses in the recording studio’, 29 April-5 May 2013.
  • CMPCP Performance Studies Network Second International Conference: co-authored paper with Beth Elverdam, ‘Rehearsal as creative process’, University of Cambridge. 4-7 April 2013.
  • New Music in Britain Conference: ‘Mapping a composer’s intentions from composition to performance’, Canterbury Christ Church University, 10-12 May 2012.
  • Tracking the Creative Process in Music International Conference: ‘Evolution and collaboration in string quartet composition, rehearsal and performance’, University Lille-de-Nord, France. 29 September-1 October 2011.
  • CMPCP Performance Studies Network International Conference: ‘Rehearsal analysis of Finnissy’s Third String Quartet’, University of Cambridge. 14-17 July 2011.
  • PALATINE workshop with Michael Clarke: ‘How it works: exploring new tools and methods for teaching creative and collaborative processes’ (University of Huddersfield, 6 July 2010)
  • Twenty-Fifth European Seminar in Ethnomusicology on Performance: ‘Ethnographic research into string quartet rehearsal and performance’ (Milton Keynes, 18-22 September 2009)
  • IAMS Symposium, Music: Notation and Sound: ‘Investigating the interpretative space between notation and performance’ (Amsterdam, 5-10 July 2009)
  • Polish Music Since 1945: co-authored paper with Neil Heyde: ‘Interpreting indeterminacy: performing Lutosławski’s String Quartet’ (Canterbury Christ Church University, 30 April-2 May 2009)
  • Eighth Congress of the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie (GMTH), Music Theory and Interdisciplinarity: co-authored paper with Michael Clarke: ‘Interactive Strategies for Analysing Music’ (University of Music and the Dramatic Arts, Graz, 9-12 October 2008)
  • Fourth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology: co-authored paper with Michael Clarke: ‘Interactive Strategies for Analysing Musical Structure’ (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2-6 July 2008)
  • Sixth European Music Analysis Conference on Interpretation ‘The relationship between notation and performance practice in Michael Finnissy’s Second String Quartet’ (Hochschule für Musik and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, 11-14 October 2007)
  • CHARM/RMA annual conference on Musicology and Recordings: ‘Documenting the Creative Process: Recordings as Research Tools’ (Royal Holloway, University of London, 13-15 September 2007)

GUEST LECTURES

  • Keynote address, with Michael Finnissy, at the INTIME Symposium on Notations: Performer/Composer Dialogues. Coventry University, 20-21 October 2012
  • Illustrated talk on Bartók’s String Quartets at the Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition, 28 March 2012
  • Speaker at the ‘Distributed Creativity’ workshop, part of the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice, University of Oxford, 5 September 2011
  • Keynote address, with Michael Finnissy, at the Canterbury Christ Church University Research Training Study Day on ‘Composition as Research’, 19 March 2011
  • Keynote address at the Canterbury Christ Church University Research Training Study Day on ‘Performance as Research’: ‘Investigating the interpretative space between notation and performance’, 11 December 2010
  • Pre-concert talk at the Royal Festival Hall, ‘Benjamin Dance Figures, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Bartók Concerto for Orchestra’, 4 February 2010
  • ‘Interactive strategies for analysing creative processes in Michael Finnissy’s Second String Quartet’, Graduate Colloquia, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, 4 November 2008
  • Keynote speech at the Theory and Analysis for Graduate Students Study Day, University of Cambridge: ‘Beyond the notes: analysis and interpretation’, 3 May 2008
  • ‘Creative Processes in the String Quartet’. Presentation with the Kreutzer Quartet and Michael Finnissy at the Royal Academy of Music research seminar series, 23 March 2007
  • ‘Innovation, Interaction, Interpretation: Finnissy’s Second String Quartet’ at the Birmingham Conservatoire research seminar series, 20 March 2007