EVENTS

I have given over 150 international guest lectures and keynote addresses (in German and in English) in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, the Nederlands, Russia, Scotland, USA, UK. For a comprehensive guide, including my scholarly articles and essays in edited works, please see my CV. Here, though, is a list of my keynote and major public lectures.

4 May 2023

Larchet Memorial Lecture, ’10 Lessons Learnt Writing a Schubert Biography, UCD School of Music 

12 November 2021

‘Richard Festinger’s Icarus in Flight’ An Extraordinary Concert for Climate Action with Live Performances by Yury Revich and James Cottriall from Vienna and Telegraph Quartet, San Francisco, Climate Music Project Panel, Dargan Theatre Trinity College Dublin 

24 September 2021

‘Schubert and The Makings of Biography’, Schubert Research Centre, Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna

29 May 2020

Presidential Address, ‘In Honour of Michael Beckerman NYU), IRC-Harrison Medal, Society for Musicology in Ireland 

4–16 November 2019

Invited Lecture, ‘Schubert and Friendship’, Schubert am Klavier Conference, Neue Schubert Ausgabe, University of Tübingen

19 October 2019

Oxford Lieder Study Day. Two illustrated Lectures (i) ‘Unresting Death: On Schubert’s Final Years’ with Dame Imogen Cooper performing Schubert’s Sonata in A Major

(ii) ‘Death’s Presence in Schubert’s Final Songs’ with James Gilchrist (tenor) and Anna Tilbrook (piano)

10 May 2019

‘Schubert’s Dramatic Music’, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford 

8 March 2019

Ars et Amicitia: Schubert and the Aesthetics of Friendship, University of Strasbourg

24 November 2018

‘Why Musicology Matters?’ Presidential Address for Society for Musicology in Ireland Panel, KVNM Symposium Musicological Societies as Intermediaries between Society, Musical Life and Academia

23 October 2018

‘Schubert’s Teenage Symphonies’, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

9 October 2018

John Byrd Lecture, ‘Schubert and the Making of the Self’, University of Cardiff

15 August 2017

Public Lecture, ‘Late Works or Last Works? On Schubert’s Final Years’, Kilkenny International Arts Festival on Schubert’s Late Works: Schubert: Dreaming the Sublime

16–21 May 2017

6 Public Lectures Introducing ‘Schubert Symphonies’ Series, Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted Gustavo Dudamel

27 April 2017

Opening Address, ‘Why Musicology Matters’, Public Musicology Sympoisum National Concert Hall Dublin

21 February 2017

Invited Lecture, ‘On the Edge of a Dream: Schubert’s Early Compositions’, University of Durham

18–20 December 2016

Public Lecture and Performance of my edition of ‘Goethes Proserpina mit Musik von Karl Eberwein, Munich Symphony Orchestra conducted Kevin Edusei with Salome Kammer (Proserpina)