Team members
Aidan Thomson
SMI
aidan.thomson@universityofgalway.ie
Aidan Thomson is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Galway in Ireland, where he was appointed in 2018 to help create and lead Ireland’s newest Music department. Previously, he taught at Queen’s University, Belfast, and the University of Leeds. A graduate of the universities of Oxford (M.A., D.Phil.) and London (M.Mus.), his research is concerned with early twentieth-century British and Irish music, particularly Elgar, Bax, Smyth and Vaughan Williams. He co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams (Cambridge University Press, 2013) with Alain Frogley, and wrote and presented ‘Bax, Ireland and 1916’ for RTÉ Lyric fm in 2016 as part of the Irish radio station’s centenary celebrations of the Easter Rising. He is an elected Council member of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, and a former Reviews Editor of the Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland.
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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