CV

EMPLOYMENT

2025-             Appointed Emeritus Professor of Gender and Music (Trinity Laban)

2021-2024     Professor of Gender and Music at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

2012-2016     Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at University of Huddersfield

2010-2024     Programme leader for MMus degree at Trinity Laban. At various points, also programme leader for PGDip, MA, MFA and MA in MEP degrees and Deputy Head of Research.

2009-10         Acting MMus Course Co-Ordinator at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance; awarded Trinity Laban Creative Futures research grant for 2009-10.

2007               Acting Course Leader for MMus (Sussex) at Trinity College of Music, London.

2006-9            Leader of and teacher on various modules at Trinity College of Music.

2005-6            Taught on Performance Practice MMus module at Trinity College of Music. Taught undergraduate project ‘Women, Voice and Song’ at York University

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

1993-6            Taught ‘British women in music in the 19th and 20th centuries’ for University of Southampton; taught ‘Music in London’ course for Ithaca College (London Center)

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

1992               Taught ‘Discovering Concerts’ course 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 (including South Bank Centre and Barbican), Liverpool, Bradford etc.). Taught flute privately.

PROJECT/OTHER WORK

2025- Member of Hastings Queer History Collective

2018-19 Co-director of Venus Blazing, women composer initiative at Trinity Laban

2016-2023 Co-PI (with Dr Phyllis Weliver, SLU, USA on Sounding Victorian - a Digital Humanities consortium of online materials exploring sound in the Victorian era.

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

MEDIA

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

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

Contributor to TV programmes for Channel 4 and BBC on women and opera, women composers and Ethel Smyth.

EDITORIAL WORK

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.

POSTGRADUATE EXAMINING

2002-2019      External examiner for music programmes at Christ Church Canterbury University, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal Academy of Music, London, Oxford Brookes University.

PhD theses examined for UK: Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, Royal Northern College of Music, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, London, Reading, Southampton, Sussex and York; Canada: McGill University; Australia: Universities of Melbourne and New South Wales.

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). Prize: Michael John Youhotsky Prize (1981)
1982   Diploma from Pushkin Institute (Moscow).