Team members
Helen Lawlor
SMI
Helen.Lawlor@TUDublin.ie
Dr Helen Lawlor specialises in research on music in Ireland with a focus on the musical practice, education and history of the harp. She lectures in Irish music, music education, and musicology at the TU Dublin Conservatoire. She is author of Irish Harping 1900–2010 (2012) and co-editor with Sandra Joyce of Harp Studies: Perspectives on the Irish Harp (2016) and Harp Studies II: World Harp Traditions (2024). Her work is also published in The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, Ancestral Imprints, Sonus, American Harp Journal, JSMI and JM.
Helen has served as the Executive Editor of the Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland (JSMI) and is Secretary of Performance Research Ireland. She is an advisory board member of Irish Musical Studies and previously served as Chair of the Irish national committee of the International Council for Traditional Music and Dance (ICTMD Ireland).
Helen holds a PhD (UCD), Masters in Musicology (UCD) and a BMusEd (TCD/TU Dublin). Her current research engages with the song sheet collection housed at the Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco. Initially funded by an IRC New Foundations Award, this is a collaborative project between the TU Dublin Conservatoire, The Princess Grace Irish Library and the Rainier III Académie, Monaco. Ongoing projects include Sounding Empowerment, an edited collection of essays co-edited with Adrian Scahill and Access and Participation in Traditional Music (special issue of Ethnomusicology Ireland, 2024). Her research is grounded in the discipline of ethnomusicology, drawing also on performance practice and musicological methodologies.
Barbara kelly – advisor
RMA
B.Kelly1@leeds.ac.uk
Barbara L. Kelly is Professor of Music and Head of the School of Music at the University of Leeds. From 2015 to 2022 she was Director of Research and Professor of Musicology at the Royal Northern College of Music. She is also President of the Royal Musical Association (2021-24) and was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2020. Her research is focused on French music between 1870 and 1939 and on internationalism and transnationalism in the interwar period. She has published three books: Music and Ultra-Modernism in France: A Fragile Consensus, 1913-1939 (Boydell, 2013); Tradition and Style in the Works of Darius Milhaud, 1912-1939 (Ashgate, 2003)and, with Deborah Mawer, Graham Sadler and Rachel Moore, Accenting the Classics: Europe’s Music through Durand’s Édition Classique for Boydell (2023). She is also contributing editor of French Music, Culture, and National Identity, 1870-1939 (Rochester, 2008); Berlioz et Debussy: Sources, Contexts and Legacies (Ashgate, 2007) with Kerry Murphy; Music Criticism in France, 1918-1939: Authority, Advocacy, Legacy (Boydell, 2018) with Christopher Moore, and Music in Post-War Transitions in the 19th and 20th centuries (NY: Berghahn Press, 2023) with Anaïs Flechet, Martin Guerpin and Philippe Gumplowicz. Her Debussy Studies 2 volume for Cambridge University Press with David Code is forthcoming (2024). She is currently preparing a study of the singer Jane Bathori.
Anders Førisdal
NO
anders.forisdal@nmh.no
Anders Førisdal is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the Academy of Music, Oslo, investigating institutionalization processes in 19th century Norwegian music education from the perspective of critical sociology. He studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music where he finished with a Masters Degree on Aldo Clementi´s music. Besides working on solo projects, Førisdal has performed with a wide variety of ensembles such as Elision, Plus Minus and Apartement House in addition to the Oslo-based group asamisimasa. He has worked with numerous contemporary composers such as Joanna Bailie, Annesley Black, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finnissy, Mirela Ivičević, Bryn Harrison, Helmut Lachenmann, Klaus Lang, Simon Løffler, Trond Reinholdtsen, Mathias Spahlinger, Yiran Zhao and others. As guitirst of asamisimasa he has received the Norwegian Spellemannsprisen twice for best contemporary music release, and his solo recording with music by avant-garde pioneer Bjørn Fongaard was released in 2015. In 2017 Førisdal finished his Ph.D. at the Norwegian Academy of Music with a thesis on radically idiomatic instrumental practice in the music of Brian Ferneyhough, Richard Barrett and Klaus K. Hübler.
Désirée Staverman
KVNM
voorzitter@kvnm.nl
Désirée Staverman studied violoncello in Amsterdam and musicology at Utrecht University. Her interests include Dutch music culture and performance issues. She obtained her doctorate on the Dutch composer Alphons Diepenbrock: The Stage Music of Alphons Diepenbrock, Conception, Composition, Performance (2006). This research focused on the revival of Greek Tragedy on stage and the combination of spoken voice and music in early twentieth-century stage music. For several years, she has been researching the introduction and reception of French chamber music and song repertoire in the Netherlands since the first World War.
Désirée Staverman was affiliated with Codarts Rotterdam from 1988 to 2020 as a teacher of music history and culture and as a research coach. She joined choreographer Jiří Kylián’s lectureship at Codarts/Rotterdam Dance Academy as associate researcher. Désirée Staverman has been active for the Royal Society for Dutch Music History (KVNM) for more than 35 years, and she has been president since 2019.
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