Research
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- Research for Ph.D., School of Music, Leeds University, Cello Performance Practice in the Nineteenth Century, under the supervision of Prof. Clive Brown.
- "M. K. Ciurlionis (1875-1911): catalogues, folk music and the nationalist canon", paper for RMA study day, June 2008, The Composer-Performer at the Keyboard, Leeds University
- “Studies, Cadenzas and the Canon - the Character of the Cello in the Nineteenth Century”, paper for Fifteenth Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, University College, Dublin
- Research in Belgian archives, funded by Brotherton Library Scholarship, Leeds University
- “Aisance, or Playing like a Man of the World: Aspects of Cellists’ Posture in the Nineteenth Century”, paper for Royal Musical Association Conference, Aberdeen University
- “Bach's Suites for Solo Cello as Performed by Friedrich Grützmacher”, lecture-recital for Performing Romantic Music Conference, Durham University
- English-language editor, working with Dr. Darius Kucinskas (Kaunas University) on English translation of the Chronological Catalogue of the Music of M. K. Ciurlionis(Kaunas University Press, 2008)
- "The Phenomenon of the Cellist Auguste van Biene: from the Charing Cross Road to Brighton via Broadway", in: M. Hewitt and R. Cowgill (eds), Victorian Soundscapes, Leeds Working Papers in Victorian Studies 9 (Leeds: LCVS and LUCEM, 2007).
- 1980-83, several articles for The Strad on Bach editing, reviews of recently published baroque music, cello technique.
- "Lithuanian Art & Music Abroad: English Reception of the Work of M. K. Čiurlionis, 1912-39", Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 83 (2005) pp. 234-253.
- Reprinted in Lithuanian (trans. and ed. Rokas Zubovas and Sonata Zubovienė) as "Lietuvos dailė ir muzika užsienyje: M. K. Čiurlionio kūrinų recepcija Anglijoje 1912-1939 metais", Kulturos barai vol. 482 (2005) pp. 79-88.
- "Octatonicism in the Piano Music of M. K. Čiurlionis", in: Rimantas Astrauskas (ed.), Čiurlionis and the World (Almanac of Druskininkai Čiurlionis Study Week 2004), Vilnius: Kaunas University of Technology, 2005, pp. 56-66.
- "Watching Eyes: Čiurlionis, Wyspianski and Poe", in: Rimantas Astrauskas (ed.), Čiurlionis and the World (Almanac of Druskininkai Čiurlionis Study Week 2004), Vilnius: Kaunas University of Technology, 2006, pp. 34-44.
- Short articles on Čiurlionis for Tiltas, the journal of the British-Lithuanian Society, 2005 and 2006.
- 2001: Review of published music by Nicholas Maw, for Music Web.
- Paper for panel at International Musicological Society Conference, Zurich, July 2007: Musical and philosophical ideas from North-Europe: Greimas, Sibelius, Čiurlionis, Nielsen : "Emerging nation, emerging composer: Čiurlionis Reception and Theories of Nationalism".
- "Between (how many?) worlds, or, outside looking in: M. K. Čiurlionis the cautious avant-gardist", paper for the AHRB 'Borders and Boundaries' Colloquium, Glasgow University, January 2005.
- "Nineteenth-Century Editions of the Bach Solo Cello Suites", lecture-recital for the Royal Musical Association Research Students' Conference, Leeds University, January 2006.
- "Emerging nation, emerging composer: patterns of Čiurlionis reception and Lithuanian nationhood", invited paper for the Čiurlionis 130 conference, Kaunas, September 2005.
- Paper for Music in Nineteenth Century Britain Conference, July 2007: "'A Foreigh Musician, but an English Actor': Auguste van Biene, the Anglo-Dutch-Jewish Actor-Musician".
- Lecture-recital for Twelfth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, Warsaw University, "Nineteenth Century Editions of Bach's Suites for Solo Violoncello"
- Russian music, Baltic music, nationalism, opera, reception theory, baroque music.