Recent and Forthcoming Interventions

20-22 November 2025: [conference paper] ‘Hercules Slaying Monsters, Aristippus Advising Diogenes: Classical Allusion, the Conductus and the Carmina Burana’, at conference Carmina Burana – Vom Kodex zum Klang, Basel

24-26 September 2025: [conference paper] ‘Music in the Open Air: Discourse, Space and Ecoculture’, keynote address at conference En plein air: Soundscapes of Ritual and Festivity in Europe and Beyond from the Middle Ages to the Present, Siena

22-23 May 2025: [conference paper] ‘Beyond Bayreuth: Discourses of Musical Pilgrimage from Mozart to Berlioz’, at conference La pèlerinage musical en Europe durant le long XIX^e siècle, Brussels

19 March 2025: [publication] ‘‘Opera’ off the Stage: Gender and Genre in opéra de salon’.  In Mark Everist and Jennifer Walker (eds), Genre and the Production of Gendered Identity on the Lyric Stage), Speculum musicae 55.  Turnhout: Brepols, 2025, 223-254

14-15 March 2025: [conference paper and session chair] ‘Music on the Stage of Desire: Fantaisie-opérette, 1890-1914′, at conference France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918, online

13-15 January 2025: [conference paper and session chair] ‘Aetas Aurea: Le Conductus parisien et l’héritage de l’Antiquité classique’, at conference 5e Rencontres de Musique Médiévale, Lyon

15 December 2024: [publication] ‘The ‘Benedicamus Domino’ and the Parisian Conductus: Distribution, History and Structure’.  In Catherine Bradley (ed.), Benedicamus Domino, Epitome musical. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024, 53–65

1 December 2024: [publication] ‘Facere, componere, invenire: Reassembling the Composer in the Long Thirteenth Century’.  In Anne-Zoé Rillon-Marne and Gaël Saint-Cricq (eds), Composers in the Middle Ages, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music 25.  Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2024, 172-192

21-22 November 2024: [conference paper] ‘Paroles, notes et construction d’une musique vernaculaire dans le long XIIIe siècle’, at conference (Re)-donner sens:
L’œuvre d’art dans tous ses états, Amiens

14-17 November 2024: [panel discussant] ‘Inside the Opera House: A Multisensory Social World’, at conference Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Chicago

14-17 November 2024: [conference paper] ‘Time, Place, Tradition: Authorizing Musical Adaptation  in the Long Nineteenth-Century’, at conference Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Chicago

6-7 November 2024: [conference paper] ‘Dancing on the Table: Comédie-vaudeville and the Séance’, at conference French Vaudeville and its European Transformations During the Long Nineteenth Century, Newcastle

9-11 October 2024: [conference paper] ‘Words, Notes and the Construction of a Vernacular Music in the Long Thirteenth Century’, at conference La poesia cantata nel medioevo. Strumenti e metodi per l’edizione e l’interpretazione, Florence

11-13 September 2024: [conference paper] ‘Aetas Aurea: The Parisian Conductus and the Legacy of Classical Antiquity’, at conference Royal Musical Association 150th Anniversary Conference, London

16 August 2024: [digital resource release] ‘Opéra de salon: Paris Societies and Spaces, 1850-1870’, The Musical Geography Project: Mapping Place and Movement Through Music History, 2024 – https://musicalgeography.org/project/opera-de-salon/

5 July 2024: [professional recognition] République Française: Ministère de la Culture, Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

4-6 July 2024: [conference chair, programme committee member and conference paper] ”Un caractère tout à fait classique’: Amédée Méreaux’s Transcriptions and the Debt to the Past’, at conference France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918′, Paris

15-16 June 2024: [conference paper] ‘Practices of Arrangement and the Domestic Debt to the Past’, at conference Nineteenth-Century Musical Amateurs, Auckland

5-8 June 2024: [conference chair and programme committee member] ‘Musica Mercata: Finance, Commodity and the Music Industry from Antiquity to the Present’, Helsinki

17 May 2024: [conference response] to Clotilde Verwaerde , Université Paris 8, ‘Le roman en romances ou l’opéra de salon’, Pratiques de la musique de chambre dans l’espace domestique en Europe aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, Université de Tours

13-14 May 2024: [conference paper] ”Un caractère tout à fait classique’: Les transcriptions d’Amédée Méreaux et la dette envers le passé’, at conference Cent-cinquantenaire de la disparition d’Amédée Méreaux, Rouen

28-29 March 2024: [conference paper] ‘Opéra de salon in Paris 1850-1870: Performance, Space and Class’, at conference Mapping Music History, University of Aberdeen

17 March 2024: [radio broadcast] ‘L’école de Notre-Dame 12e et 13e siècle’, La culte des muses, Liberté-FM.

23-24 February 2024: [presentation and continuity] two concerts with L’éléphant bleu at Hôtel PuyRicard-Agar, Cavaillon

23 December 2023: [publication] ‘JUPITER: Reading the ‘Viennese Classics’ in 19^th-Century Britain’.  Musical Quarterly 106 (2023) 1-24

9-12 November 2023: [conference response] ‘So What Really is Latin Song in the Medieval World?’, at Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Denver

9-12 November 2023: [conference chair] ‘Writing and Collecting Music in the Thirteenth Century: New Perspectives and Historiographical Challenges’, at Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Denver

7-8 September 2023: [conference paper] ‘The ‘Benedicamus Domino’ and the Conductus: Distribution, History and Structure’, at conference Benedicamus Domino, University of Oslo

20 July 2023: [publication] ‘Opera in the Bathroom: Power, Personality and Opéra de salon during the Second Empire’, Music and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. Fabrizio Della Seta and Massimiliano Locanto,  special issue of Chigiana: Journal of Musicological Studies 52 (2022) 61-78

23-24 June 2023: [conference paper] ‘Publicity, Morality, Gender and the Parisian  Lyric Stage, 1789-1918‘, at conference Cultural Intermediaries in the Nineteenth-Century Music Market, University of Bristol

27-28 May 2023: [conference paper] ‘Verdi in Paris – Paris in Verdi’, at BILBAO 2023 VERDI CONFERENCE ABAO/OLBE, Bilbao

30 April 2023: [publication] review of Liturgy and Sequences of the Sainte-Chapelle: Music, Relics, and Sacral Kingship in Thirteenth-Century France, by Yossi Maurey, Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 35 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021) and Vexilla regis glorie: Liturgy and Relics at the Sainte-Chapelle in the Thirteenth Century, edited by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Sources d’histoire médiévale publiées par l’Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes 46 (Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2022), Journal of the American Musicological Society 76 (2023) 260-265

16-19 March 2023: [conference paper] ‘Women, Pianos and the Parisian Periodical Press, 1850-1875’, at conference Women at the Piano, 1848-1970, University of California, Irvine

3-4 March 2023: [conference paper]  Panel contribution, ‘Airs Connus and the Literary Pot-Pourri’ to ‘The air connu: Words, Music and Intertexts’, France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918, online

3-4 February 2023: [conference paper] ‘The air connu and the Literary pot-pourri, 1754-1890’, France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918, online