Research presentations

30–31 October 2026 — Editing Without Originals: Intellectual Challenges and Editorial Responsibility in Early Prokofiev Manuscripts, The Practice of Editing Music: History, Challenges and New Directions (1500–1900), Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

7–10 September 2026 — Hexatonic Forces and Polytonal Aggregates in Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 2 (1924): A Drive-Centered Analysis, with Kenneth Smith, Eleventh European Music Analysis Conference, Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC), Barcelona.

5 December 2025 — Marion Scott and the Politics of Cultural Memory: Reclaiming a Marginalised Musical Life, #Uncancel Culture: A Culture of Inclusion Versus a Culture of Exclusion. The Work – the Function. Creator – Audience, Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Kraków, Poland.

4 September 2025 — Hidden in Plain Sight: Re-evaluating Marion Scott’s Creative Legacy in British Music, Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference, Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections, online.

31 August 2025 — Brave New Worlds, Quiet Legacies: The Creative Life of Marion Scott, Fifth International Conference on Women’s Work in Music 2025: Brave New Worlds, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London.

27 March 2025 — Music at Home, War Abroad: Marion Scott and Her Circle (1900–c.1920), Versions of Home: Adapting – Rewriting – Referencing in the Arts, University of Graz, Austria.

10 November 2023 — Curation, Assimilation and Deconstruction: Consequences of Editorial Approaches to Performance, Musical Interpretation and Performance from the 19th to the 21st Century, Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Bergamo, Italy.

18–20 October 2023 — Feodor Chaliapin en Grande-Bretagne (1913–1928), Cultures et sociétés d’Europe orientale, balkanique et médiane, Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Paris. Invited paper presented in French.

15 September 2023 — Music Programming and Artistic Leadership in London’s Wigmore Hall (1910–1925), with Sarah Whitfield, Royal Musical Association Annual Conference, University of Nottingham.

31 March 2023 — Integrating Artistic Research in the Undergraduate Curriculum, European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (EPARM).

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

24 April 2020 — Invited lecture, A “Clever Bolshevik” in London, Columbia University, New York.

26 March 2020 — Invited lecture, Prokofiev and the Piano, Royal College of Music, London.

27 February 2019 — Music, Blood and Revolution, curated interdisciplinary performance, Science Museum, London.

12 February 2019 — Nurturing the Musicians of Tomorrow: What Should Our Priorities Be?, Annual CREES Lecture, Royal College of Music, London.

15 June 2018 — Literary Sources, Techniques and Traditions in the Operas of Sergei Prokofiev, Music and Literature Conference, Edinburgh Napier University.

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

22 February 2018 — The Musician in Society: From Craftsman to Creative Citizen, with Falk Hübner, Reflective Conservatoire Conference: Artists as Citizens, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London.

28 October 2016 — 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.

2–4 April 2016 — Resisting the Path of Exile: Alexander Tcherepnin’s Search for Nationhood and Self, British Association of Slavic and East European Studies Annual Conference.

3–6 March 2016 — Problematizing Virtuosity: Prokofiev’s Early Compositions for Piano, Virtuosity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest.

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

8 September 2015 — Performing the Self: Virtuosity and Recomposition in Prokofiev’s Toccata, Op. 11, Ninth Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900, University of Glasgow.

27 February 2015 — Reflection as Creative Process: Perspectives, Challenges and Practice, Reflective Conservatoire Conference 2015: Creativity and Changing Cultures, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London.

17 October 2014 — 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.

4 October 2013 — A Modernist Problem: Prokofiev’s Opera The Fiery Angel, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.

2 October 2013 — Prokofiev and Krzhizhanovsky’s Eugene Onegin – A Creative Collaboration, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Glasgow.

27 November 2012 — Between Realism and Modernism: The Case of Sergei Prokofiev, invited seminar, Goldsmiths, University of London.

10 February 2012 — Creative Processes in Prokofiev’s Eugene Onegin, After the End of Music History: An International Conference in Honor of Richard Taruskin, Princeton University.

17 November 2010 — Prokofiev and the Russian Style: An Evaluation of the Early Operas, Non-Nationalist Russian Opera: International Symposium, University of Leeds.

11 March 2010 — Operatic Style in Sergei Prokofiev’s War and Peace, Opera Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Rostov State Rachmaninov Academy, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

21 January 2010 — Vintage Prokofiev: Distinctive Features of Operatic Style in War and Peace, Sergei Prokofiev and War and Peace, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow.

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

9–12 July 2009 — Prokofiev’s Operatic Adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s The Gambler, Royal Musical Association Annual Conference, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin.

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