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EDUCATION

1985-1998 King’s College, London University:

1998    PhD (‘Women Composers during the British Musical Renaissance, 1880-1918’), funded by British Academy for initial three years (1989-1992).

1989    MMus (distinction) in historical musicology (dissertation ‘ “Venus will not hunt today”: Some thoughts on John Blow’s Venus and Adonis’)

1988    BMus (1) in Music

Prizes and awards: Purcell Prize (1986 and 1988); Sambrooke Exhibition (1987); Margaret Hilda Watts Prize (1989); Convocation Sesquicentennial Prize in Music (1989); Louise Dyer Award - Musica Brittanica (1990)

1980-1984 School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London University:

1984    BA Hons (2.1) in Russian Language & Literature (subsidiary subject: Philosophy).

1982    Diploma from Pushkin Institute (Moscow).

Prize: Michael John Youhotsky Prize (1981)

1966-1979 Oxford High School:

A levels: History, Music, Russian.

O levels: Art, English Lang., English Lit., French, Greek, History, Latin, Maths, Music, Russian.

EMPLOYMENT

2021-               Appointed Professor of Gender and Music at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

2016-               Additionally, programme leader for PGDip and MA degrees at Trinity Laban

2014-               Programme leader for MMus and MFA and Deputy Head of Research at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

2012-2014       Acting Head of Postgraduate Studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance; programme leader for MMus, MFA (Music)(Master of Fine Arts) and MA in MEP (MA in Music Education and Performance).

2012-2016       Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at University of Huddersfield

2010-               MMus programme leader at Trinity Laban. Module leader for MMus Personal Project and Research for Performance/Research Methods modules. Supervisor of doctoral students. Teacher on BMus Critical Skills and MMus Performing Practice modules.

2009-10           Acting MMus Course Co-Ordinator at Trinity Laban; Awarded Trinity Laban Creative Futures research grant for 2009-10.

2006-9             Module leader for MMus Critical Skills module, teacher for various BMus and MMus modules at Trinity College of Music, London.

2005-6             Taught on Performance Practice MMus module at Trinity College of Music; Researcher and co-editor for edition of the Maconchy/Williams correspondence; Taught undergraduate project ‘Women, Voice and Song’ at York University

1995-2005       Lecturer in Music Department, University of Reading (full-time from 1996)

1992-6             Project co-ordinator for Women in Music Archive and Information Service (post funded by Gulbenkian Foundation & Arts Council)

1995-6             Taught ‘Gender and Music: British women in music in the 19th and 20th centuries’ for University of Southampton, Music

1993-4             Taught ‘Music in London’ course for Ithaca College (London Center)

1993-4             Taught ‘Gender and Music: British and American women in music in the 19th and 20th centuries’ for University of Southampton, Music

1992                Taught ‘Discovering Concerts’ for Hounslow Adult Education

1990                Established the Women in Music Listening Exhibition, funded by the Arts Council. Researched and devised ‘Out of the Shadows: The work of women opera composers from 1800 to 1914’ (ICA, December 10) in conjunction with the Baylis Programme at English National Opera.

1989                Taught ‘History of Russian Music’ at Sidcup Adult Education Institute

1984-5             Flautist with the London Veena Music Group (performances in London (incl. South Bank Centre and Barbican), Liverpool, Bradford etc.).

Taught flute privately.

EDITORIAL WORK

Past: Editorial Board of twentieth-century music - issue editor of vol. 2:1 (March 2005); Advisory Board of Nineteenth-Century Music Review; Editorial Board of Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture (USA); Advisory Board of Context: Journal of Music Research (Australia); Advisory Panel of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association; Publications Committee of RMA.

PROJECT/OTHER WORK

2018-19           Co-director of Venus Blazing, women composer initiative at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

2016-               Co-PI (with Dr Phyllis Weliver, SLU, USA) on Sounding Victorian – a Digital Humanities project creating a consortium of online materials exploring aesthetic sound in the Victorian era.

2014-2022      Trustee of Ambache Charitable Trust. (ACT is ‘is active in raising the profile of women composers by funding people who promote their music to the widest possible circle’.)

POSTGRADUATE EXAMINING

2019              External examiner for undergraduate music programme at Christ Church Canterbury University

2015-2018    External examiner for postgraduate music programme at Christ Church Canterbury University

2015-2019    External examiner for postgraduate programmes at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

2013-2014     External examiner for postgraduate diploma in music theatre at the Royal Academy of Music, London

2011-2014     External examiner for postgraduate programmes at the Royal Academy of Music, London

2002-7           External examiner for MA in Music, History and Culture at Oxford Brookes University

 PhD theses examined for: Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, Royal Northern College of Music, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, University of Leeds, University of Sheffield, University of London (Royal Holloway), University of Reading, University of Southampton, York University, McGill University Canada), University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales. MPhil theses examined for: University of Surrey, University of Southampton, University of Birmingham, Royal Academy of Music.

CONFERENCE/SYMPOSIUM ORGANISATION

Organiser of ‘Venus Blazing: Reflecting on the Future’ Trinity Laban conservatoire of Music and Dance, Blackheath Halls (12 December, 2019)

Co-organiser of ‘Music and Victorian Literature’ Study Day at the University of Reading (May 2000)

Organising Committee for Music, Gender and Education Conference (Bath, June 1997)

Programme Committee for Feminist Theory and Music 4 (Charlottesville, USA July 1997)

Organiser of ‘Upfront’ (London Coliseum, 26 April 1992), a day of discussion on sexuality and creativity in music  - Women in Music and the Baylis Programme at English National Opera.

Organiser (with Nicola LeFanu) of international ‘Music and Gender Conference’ (King’s College: 4-7 July, 1991).

MEDIA

Interviewed for network radio on various aspects of gender, women and music (Rebecca Clarke, Fanny Hensel, Elizabeth Maconchy, Adela Maddison, Clara Schumann, Ethel Smyth, Elizabeth Stirling et al.; St Cecilia; British women composers of opera; women songwriters; women performers; suffragettes and music; the diva; music and imperialism etc.): BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, London News Talk, Spectrum Radio, Australian Broadcasting Corporation etc.

Contributor for series of Open University programmes on gender and music, Radio 4, July 1999.

Contributor for ‘From Ivory to Plastic’ (social history of the piano), Radio 4, Dec. 1998.

Contributor and panellist for ‘Here and Now’ (gender in music), Radio 3, June 1997.

Panellist for ‘Coda’ (on the canon in British musical life) Radio 3, November, 1995.

Classical music correspondent for London News Talk Radio (January-April 1995).

Contributor to Channel 4’s ‘Restless in thought, troubled in mind’ (women and opera) and ‘To mention but a few’ (women composers), June 1994; contributor to BBC TV’s ‘A Skirt Through History’ (Ethel Smyth), May 1994.