Conferences, Keynotes & Public Events

Integrating artistic research in the undergraduate curriculum. European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (EPARM), 31 March 2023. Conference Programme

Scythian, Playboy and Bolshevik: Prokofiev’s London Reception (1916-1925), Anglo-Russian Research Network Conference, Exeter University,  21-22 July, 2022. Conference Programme

A “clever Bolshevik” in London, Columbia University, New York, 24 April 2020. Conference Programme

Prokofiev and the Piano, Royal College of Music, London, 26 March, 2020 Event Booking

Nurturing the musicians of tomorrow: what should our priorities be? Annual CREES Lecture, Royal College of Music, London, 12 February 2019.

Music, Blood and Revolution, Curated performance, Science Museum, London 27 February, 2019. Text and sound combine to reflect the gritty chaos of revolution, social upheaval, bloodshed and war.  https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/lates’

‘Literary sources, techniques and traditions in the operas of Sergei Prokofiev’, Music and Literature Conference, Edinburgh Napier University, 14 – 15 June 2018. Conference Programme

Prokofiev’s Operas: Problems and Perspectives, Discover Prokofiev Symposium, Columbia University, New York, 13 April 2018. Conference Programme

The Musician in Society – from Craftsman to Creative Citizen, Reflective Conservatoire Conference: Artists as Citizens, London, 20-23 February 2018. Conference Programme

Digital learning and virtual environments in the support and training of young orchestral musicians working across Europe. European Federation of National Youth Orchestras Annual Congress. London, 28 October 2016.

Resisting the path of exile: Alexander Tcherepnin’s search for nationhood and self, British Association of Slavic and East European Studies, 2-4 April, 2016.

Problematizing virtuosity: Prokofiev’s early compositions for piano, Virtuosity: Interdisciplinary Symposium at the Liszt Academy of Music, 3-6 March 2016.

A Genealogy of Musical Ideas in the Early Works of Sergei Prokofiev, The Royal Musical Association Annual Conference, University of Birmingham, 10 September 2015.

Performing the self: virtuosity and recomposition in Prokofiev’s Toccata Op. 11, The Ninth Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900, University of Glasgow, 8 September 2015.

Reflection as creative process: perspectives, challenges and practice, Reflective Conservatoire Conference 2015 – Creativity and Changing CulturesGuildhall School of Music & Drama, 27 February 2015.

The Russian connection: Erik Chisholm and the Active Society for the Propagation of Contemporary Music (with Fiona Noble), Scotland and Russia: Performance Since 1900, University of Edinburgh, 17 October 2014.

A modernist problem: Prokofiev’s opera ‘The Fiery Angel’, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 4 October 2013.

Prokofiev and Krzhizhanovsky’s ‘Eugene Onegin’ – a creative collaboration, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Glasgow University 2 October 2013.

Between realism and modernism: the case of Sergei Prokofiev, Goldsmiths, University of London, 27 November 2012.

Creative Processes in Prokofiev’s Eugene Onegin, After the End of Music History Conference, Princeton University, 10 February 2012.

Prokofiev and the Russian style: an evaluation of the early operas, Non-nationalist Russian opera: International Symposium, University of Leeds, 17 November 2010.

Operatic style in Sergei Prokofiev’s ‘War and Peace’, Opera Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Rostov State Rachmaninov Academy, Rostov, 11 March 2010.

Vintage Prokofiev: distinctive features of operatic style in ‘War and Peace’, Sergei Prokofiev and War and Peace, RSAMD, Glasgow, 21 January 2010.

Sergei Prokofiev, Reluctant Modernist, REEM Annual Conference, Oxford University, 17 October 2009.

Prokofiev’s operatic adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s ‘The Gambler’, RMA Annual Conference, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, 9 – 12 July 2009.