PUBLICATIONS
A. Glauert (2013). “Do you know the land?” Unfolding the secrets of the lyric in performance. Music Performance Research 6: 68-96.
A. Glauert (2013). “Interpreting texts as scripts: the lyric model.” Swedish Journal of Musicology/Svensk Tidskrift foer Musikforskning 95.
K. Whitney, “Following performance across the research frontier”, in M. Dogantan-Dack (Ed.), Artistic Practice as Research in Music: Theory, Criticism, Practice. Farnham: Ashgate.
PUBLIC EVENTS, PROJECTS, & PAPERS
April-June, 2019: REFLECTIVE PERFORMANCE PROJECT. The Mahler Project. Artistic Director: Kathryn Whitney. Director of Collaborative Piano: Anna Cal. An experimental performance project for amateur & professional pianists and singers aged 30 and older on songs for voice & piano by Alma Schindler-Mahler and Gustav Mahler. Victoria Conservatory of Music, Canada.
March-June, 2018: REFLECTIVE PERFORMANCE PROJECT. The Vaughan Williams Project. Artistic Director: Kathryn Whitney. Director of Collaborative Piano: Anna Cal. An experimental performance project for amateur & professional pianists and singers aged 30 and older on songs for voice & piano by Ralph Vaughan Williams, include Songs of Travel (R.L. Stevenson) and House of Life (D.G. Rosetti). Victoria Conservatory of Music, Canada.
March-May, 2017: REFLECTIVE PERFORMANCE PROJECT. The Schöne Müllerin Project. Artistic Director: Kathryn Whitney. Director of Collaborative Piano: Anna Cal. An experimental performance project for amateur pianists and singers aged 30 and older. On Franz Schubert’s song cycle, Die Schöne Müllerin (Op. 25, D. 795). Victoria Conservatory of Music, Canada.
February-March, 2016: REFLECTIVE PERFORMANCE PROJECT. The Dichterliebe Project. Artistic Director: Kathryn Whitney. Director of Collaborative Piano: Anna Cal. An experimental performance project for amateur pianists and singers aged 30 and older on the 20-song version of Schumann’s song cycle Dichterliebe. This project was kindly supported in part by the Victoria Conservatory of Music and the NRS Foundation. Victoria Conservatory of Music, Canada.
26 & 27 June 2015: SYMPOSIUM. What is distinctive about lyric performance? Convenors: Paul Barker, Amanda Glauert. Keynote: Jo Davies. An exploration of lyric through performance and debate, involving singers, poets, composers, instrumentalists, directors and academics. The research questions included, but were not limited to, embodiment, liveness, relationships between words and music, relationships between the dramatic and the lyric, and the application of lyric beyond song. Royal Central School of Music & Drama, London.
March-May 2015: REFLECTIVE PERFORMANCE PROJECT. The Winterreise Project. Artistic Director: Kathryn Whitney. Director of Collaborative Piano: Anna Cal. An experimental performance project for amateur pianists and singers aged 30 and older. On Franz Schubert’s song cycle, Winterreise. Victoria Conservatory of Music, Canada.
8 June 2014: SONG STUDY DAY. Singing from the Piano: a symposium examining how pianists interpret text and the piano in song performance. Presenters: Amanda Glauert, Kathryn Whitney, Paul Barker, Sarah Leonard, Cerys Jones, Imma Setiadi, Libby Burgess, Carris Jones, Andrew Matthews-Owen, Tim Watts. Royal College of Music, London.
August, 2013: CONFERENCE LECTURE-DEMONSTRATION. A. Glauert & Setiadi, M., “Listener enactments in song without a singer”. International Symposium for Performance Science. Vienna.
8 July 2013. WORKSHOP. The Lyric Dialogues of Mignon: A workshop exploring creative intersections between singers, instrumentalists, actors, and directors in live performance. Royal College of Music. In association with the Royal Central School for Speech and Drama, London, and the Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Study, London.
6 June 2013: CONFERENCE LECTURE-RECITAL. K. Whitney, “Singing in duet with the listener’s voice”. Canadian University Music Society Conference, University of Victoria, Canada.
5 April 2013: CONFERENCE LECTURE-RECITAL. K. Whitney, “Singing in duet with the listener’s voice”. Performance Studies Network Conference, University of Cambridge. With Gavin Roberts, piano.
19 November 2012: LECTURE DEMONSTATION. A. Glauert, & Whitney, K., “Performing Goethe’s poetry; performing Schubert’s song”. 20th Anniversary of the Schubert Institute, Special Goethe and Schubert Study Day. With Sholto Kynoch, piano. Senate House, London.
13 July, 2012: CONFERENCE LECTURE-RECITAL. K. Whitney, “Singing in duet with the listener’s voice: a dynamic model of the joint shaping of musical content in live concert performance.” CMPCP Music & Shape Conference, Senate House, London. With Chris Hopkins, piano.
June-July 2012: WORKSHOP. “Shaping Liveness in Song Performance: exploring the performer-audience paradigm.” A series of experimental song performance workshops in association with the AHRC Centre for Music Performance as Creative Practice. Presenter/Performer: Kathryn Whitney (CMPCP Visiting Fellow), with Gavin Roberts and Chris Hopkins, piano. King’s College, London.
21 June 2012: CONFERENCE. “Lyric Song in Idea and Performance”. Organiser: Kathryn Whitney. Keynote: Amanda Glauert. Research questions: “What is the lyric and how do we make it?”. A cross-disciplinary performance-led workshop on instances of the lyric, its creation and invocation, in song performance in concert. Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Study, London.
11 June, 2012: PUBLIC LECTURE. A. Glauert (Lecture): “Do you know the land? Wolf’s performing and composing of Mignon’s lyric chain”. Institute of Musical Research & Centre for Music Performance as Creative Practice Performance Research Seminar. Senate House, London.
2 June 2012: CONFERENCE LECTURE-RECITAL. K. Whitney, “Aesthetic transfer in live performance”. 2012 Conference of the Royal Musical Association: Love to Death: Transforming Opera. With Caradog Williams, piano. Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff.
21 May 2012: CMPCP LECTURE-RECITAL. K. Whitney, “‘Liveness’: a quality, a platform, an essential creative space in notated music”. Institute of Musical Research & Centre for Music Performance as Creative Practice Performance Research Seminar. With Sholto Kynoch, piano. Senate House, London.
4 June 2011: CONFERENCE PAPER. K. Whitney, “Inside song performance: mapping the interior of the performative act”. Annual Conference of the Canadian University Music Society. With David Rogosin, piano. Mount Allison University, New Brunswick.
1 July 2011: CONFERENCE LECTURE-RECITAL. K. Whitney, “What kind of thing is liveness?: preliminary answers from the interior of an operatic voice.” Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music & Philosophy Research Group. With Edwige Herchenroder, piano. King’s College, London.
20 May 2011: CONFERENCE LECTURE-RECITAL. K. Whitney, “What kind of thing is liveness?: preliminary answers from the interior of an operatic voice.” PERFORMA International Performance Studied Conference. With Helena Marino, piano. University of Aveiro, Portugal.
22 March 2011: LECTURE-DEMONSTRATION. K. Whitney, “Is (art song) performance creative? Conflicting perspectives from the interior of the performative act.” Faculty Research Colloquium. University of Bristol.
4 June 2010: CONFERENCE PAPER: K. Whitney, “Performativity, poetry and creation: in search of a language of live art song performance.” Annual Conference of the Canadian University Music Society. University of Regina.
13 May 2010: STUDY DAY. Inside Song Performance: Mapping the Interior of the Performative Act. Sponsored by the Royal Musical Association and the Institute of Musical Research. Conveners: Kathryn Whitney & Amanda Glauert. Presenters: Fiona Sampson (poet, author “Music Lessons”), Helen Abbott (Bangor University), Sholto Kynoch (pianist, Artistic Director, Oxford Lieder Festival), Jane Boston (Central School of Speech and Drama, RADA), Paul Alan Barker (Central School of Speech and Drama), Kathryn Whitney (IMR), Amanda Glauert (Royal College of Music). Senate House, London.
18 May 2010: STUDY DAY. Performativity, Poetry, Creation: investigating the creative space of live art song performance. Conveners: Amanda Glauert & Kathryn Whitney. Presenters: John Irving (IMR), Amanda Glauert (Kingston), Kathryn Whitney (IMR, RWCMD), Norbert Meyn (Lieder Theatre London), Stephen Coombs, pianist, Sophie Fuller (Trinity Laban), April Fredrick (RAM), Briony Wiliams (Royal Academy of Music). Institute of Musical Research, Senate House, London.
14 May 2010: RESEARCH DAY. Creating the Lyric: Music and Poetry Dialogues. Convened by Amanda Glauert (Kingston) and Fiona Sampson (Poet in Residence, Kingston University) Speakers and performers: Amanda Glauert (Kingston); Fiona Sampson (Kingston); Jane Manning (Kingston); April Fredrick (RAM); Norbert Meyn (Lieder Theatre London); Kathryn Whitney (Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama/ Institute of Musical Research). Kingston University, London.