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Current research:
  • Ph.D., School of Music, Leeds University, Cello Performance Practice in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, under the supervision of Prof. Clive Brown (submitted April 2009).
  • Research in Budapest Central Library, studying memoirs of the 19th-century Hungarian cellist Rosa Szük, funded by Brotherton Library Scholarship.

Conference papers and performances:

Forthcoming:
  • February 2010: Recital, Leeds University (Mendelssohn, Servais, Popper)
  • August 2009: Lecture-recital, "Haydn's Cello Concerto(s) in the Later Nineteenth Century: editions, performance practices, reception" (Toronto, York University, Celebrating Haydn: his times and legacy)

To date:
  • May 2009: "New Directions in Performance Practice Research" (Portugal, University of Aveiro, PERFORMA)
  • April 2009: "A Scottish Enlightenment Cellist as Teacher: John Gunn, Fingering, and the French" (Glasgow, Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Musica Scotica)
  • April 2009: Lecture-recital, "'Noble and easy attitudes' or a violent embrace ? : towards carnality in 19th-century cello performance", London, Royal College of Music, The Musical Body: Gesture, Representation and Ergonomics in Performance
  • January 2009: Mendelssohn Octet, Leeds University, with Eroica Quartet and LUCHIP Quartet
  • June 2008: "M. K. Ciurlionis (1875-1911): catalogues, folk music and the nationalist canon", RMA study day, The Composer-Performer at the Keyboard, Leeds University
  • June 2008: "Studies, Cadenzas and the Canon - the Character of the Cello in the Nineteenth Century", Fifteenth Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, University College, Dublin (with the assistance of the Frank Howes Award, Royal Musical Association)
  • June 2008: Research in Belgian archives, funded by Brotherton Library Scholarship, Leeds University
  • July 2008: “Aisance, or Playing like a Man of the World: Aspects of Cellists’ Posture in the Nineteenth Century”, Royal Musical Association Conference, Aberdeen University
  • July 2008: Lecture-recital, “Bach's Suites for Solo Cello as Performed by Friedrich Grützmacher”, Performing Romantic Music Conference, Durham University
  • April-May 2008: 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)
  • March 2008: Recital, Wighton Centre, Dundee Central Library - programme
  • 2007: Recital, Sowerby Music Society: - programme
  • 2007: "Emerging nation, emerging composer: Čiurlionis Reception and Theories of Nationalism", International Musicological Society Conference, Zurich, in panel: Musical and philosophical ideas from North-Europe: Greimas, Sibelius, Čiurlionis, Nielsen.
  • 2007: "'A Foreigh Musician, but an English Actor': Auguste van Biene, the Anglo-Dutch-Jewish Actor-Musician", Music in Nineteenth Century Britain Conference, Birmingham University.
  • 2006: Lecture-recital, "Nineteenth-Century Editions of the Bach Solo Cello Suites", Royal Musical Association Research Students' Conference, Leeds University.
  • 2006: Lecture-recital, "Nineteenth Century Editions of Bach's Suites for Solo Violoncello", Twelfth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, Warsaw University.
  • 2005: Recital, Leeds University (Roslavets, Gubaidulina, Prokofiev, Denisov)
  • 2005: "Between (how many?) worlds, or, outside looking in: M. K. Čiurlionis the cautious avant-gardist", AHRB 'Borders and Boundaries' Colloquium, Glasgow University.
  • 2005: "Emerging nation, emerging composer: patterns of Čiurlionis reception and Lithuanian nationhood", Čiurlionis 130 conference, Kaunas.

Publications:

  • "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).
  • "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.

Other interests:

    Russian music, Baltic music, nationalism, opera, reception theory, baroque music.