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Summer Season

With the teaching and examining year drawing to a close, the academic staff now turn their minds once again to their research activities. The summer months are the prime conference and festival season, and members of the Faculty are to be found presenting their work at events around the globe. Here is just a taster of some of the activities of members of the Faculty this summer:

• Professor Georgina Born is speaking in the opening plenary panel at the Society for Music Analysis Conference at Lancaster University on 28 July. The panel is entitled 'Marking Time: On Contemporary Music and Historical Analysis'.
• Dr Michael Burden is giving a paper on 30 September entitled ‘That "Romish" composer: the reception of Pergolesi in 18th-century England' at the conference Pergolesi da Jesi all'Europa in Jesi, organised by the Fondazione Pergolesi-Spontini.
• Professor Eric Clarke is giving a paper on 30 June at the University of Cambridge CRASSH Conference on The Future University entitled ‘Thinking/Doing/Making Music'.
• Professor Jonathan Cross is giving the keynote paper at the Conference Revisiting the Past, Recasting the Present: the Reception of Greek Antiquity in Athens on 3 July. His paper is entitled ‘Dancing with Stravinsky: Greek Myth and the Representation of Loss'.
• Dr Daniel Grimley is Scholar-in-Residence at the Bard Music Festival 2011 in upstate New York. The Festival's theme is Sibelius and His World. Between 12 and 21 August, he will be giving a series of talks and leading round-table discussions.
• Professor Edward Higginbottom is directing the New College Choir ‘in the studio' this July, recording Haydn and Britten, as well as performances at the St Albans Festival, and in Perugia and Cyprus
• Dr Susan Wollenberg is giving a keynote address at the 1st International Conference on Historical Keyboard Music, University of Edinburgh, 1-4 July. Her paper is entitled. 'Music for connoisseurs and amateurs: C.P.E. Bach and the Keyboard'.