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.

12 June 2015

Inaugural Lecture as President of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, University College Cork

9–11 April 2015

Invited Lecture, ‘Imagining Franz Schubert’, Musical Biography: National Ideology, Narrative technique and the Nature of Myth, Institute for Musical Research, London

25 November 2014

Gerda Henkel Scholar in Residence Lecture, ‘Proserpina. Carl Eberweins Vertonung von Goethes Melodram’, Musikwissenschaftliches Institut, University of Tübingen

24 October 2014

Keynote Address, ‘Goethe and Schubert: The Wonder of Song and Vicissitudes of the Singspiel’, Schubert as Dramatist, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford

28–30 November 2013

Invited Lecture, ‘Nachdenken über Schuberts ,,Gretchen am Spinnrade,,’ Kunstuniversität Graz, Austria

17 October 2013

Invited Lectures for Study Day, ‘Hugo Wolf’s Goethe Settings’, Oxford Lieder Festival featuring performances of Hugo Wolf’s 51 Goethe Lieder

18 September 2013

Invited Public Lecture opening 2013–2014 Lecture Series: Schuberts Goethe Vertonung, ‘Der Musensohn’, Goethe-Museum Düsseldorf, Germany

7–10 August 2013

Invited Lecture ‘Silence, Absence and Ellipsis in Schubert-Berio Rendering for Orchestra’, Institute of Musical Research, London

3 May 2013

Invited Joint Lecture with Seóirse Bodley: ‘Tradition and Transformation: On Seóirse Bodley’s Goethe Settings’ to open the Conference Sonic Symbiosis: The Relationship between the Composer and Musicologist, National University of Ireland Maynooth

28 April 2013

Addresses by Lorraine and Seóirse Bodley, A Community of the Imagination: Seóirse Bodley’s Goethe Settings performed for the composer’s 80th birthday concert by Sylvia O’Brien (soprano), Owen Gilhooly (baritone), Imelda Drumm (mezzo soprano) and David Adams (piano), Hugh Lane Gallery

28 February 2013

Invited Lecture, ‘Schuberts Lehrjahre Settings’ in collaboration with the Mezzo-Soprano Alison Browner, Master Class, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin

17 November 2012

Keynote Address, ‘Schubert’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre Settings’ 25-Year Celebration of the Schubert Institute UK, Institute of Musical Research, London

16 November 2012

Invited Lecture, ‘Nachdenken über Goethes Freundschaft mit Felix Mendelssohn’, University of Heidelberg Distinguished Guest Lecture Series

22 October 2012

Paper Read, ‘Music of the Orphaned Self: Schubert’s Late Lehrjahre Settings’, International Conference, Schubert and Concepts of Late Style, NUI Maynooth

28 September 2012

Invited Lecture, ‘Wassermetaphorik und Wandermotive in Schubert’s Goethe Vertonungen, Internationaler Schubert-Kongress, Deutsche Schubert Gesellschaft, Duisberg, Germany

1 July 2012

Invited Lecture, ‘Melodrama and the Representation of Reality: Goethe’s Proserpina with Music by Carl Eberwein’, University of Athens, Greece

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