2023
Invited Talk: ‘My Compositional Journey from Secondary to Higher Education’ (talk for A Level Music students), Abbot Beyne School, UK, 25th January 2023
2022
Presentation: ‘”Queering Opera”: gender and trans voices in the rethinking of opera’, The 4th NEGEM 2022 Symposium (with the Centre for Studies in Gender and Music), Almada Negreiros College, Lisbon 23rd September 2022
Presentation: ‘”Queering Opera” Project Pitch’ (paper), Opera Makers, Académie du Festival Aix-en-Provence, July 2022
Lecture Recital & Discussion: ‘”Queering Opera”: presenting and discussing Act 1 Finale piano reduction’, enoa Opera Creation Journey Lab #1, The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, April 2022
2021
‘”Queering Opera”: A Concept for Rethinking Opera’, enoa ‘Opera Creation Journey’, La Monnaie/De Munt, Brussels, 2021
2017
‘“Xenakis, not Gounod”: Xenakis, the Avant Garde, and May ’68’ (paper), Exploring Xenakis Symposium, University of Leeds 12th September 2017
2016
‘“avant garde” and “Avant Garde”: A Practice-Led Investigation’ (paper), School of Music Research Seminar Series, University of Leeds 8th December 2016
‘What does it mean to “compose”?’ (paper), PGR Symposium, University of Leeds 16th May, 2016
2015
‘(Per)Forming Art: Performance as a Compositional Technique’ (paper), PGR Symposium, University of Leeds 7th December 2015
‘Using the Internet to Re-Define Compositional ‘Form’’ (poster), Study Day on Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity, University of Huddersfield 27th June 2015
‘Considering Expression as Compositional Material’: ‘Improvisation is the middle-ground between Composing and Performing’ or ‘Using Improvisation in Live Performance as a Compositional Technique’ (paper), PGR Symposium, University of Leeds 18th May, 2015
2014
‘The Composer’s Paradox: An Exploration of ‘Freedom’ and ‘Restriction’ within the Compositional Process’ (paper), PGR Symposium, University of Leeds 15th December 2014
‘A ‘Violent’ Encounter?: Notions of Hidden ‘Violence’ in Compositional Thoughts, Acts, and Encounters with the Work of Art’ (paper), PGR Symposium, University of Leeds 19th May 2014
2013
‘Compositional ‘Form’: A ‘Multidimensional Interstice’ (paper), PGR Symposium, University of Leeds 18th December 2013
‘Considering Compositional ‘Spaces’ as ‘Heterotopias’’ (paper), Music and/as Process Symposium, University of Huddersfield 29th June 2013
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