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.
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
28 June 2012
Keynote Lecture, ‘Transitions and Translations: Goethe’s Proserpina with Music by Carl Eberwein’, Comparative Literatures Association of Ireland International Conference, University College Cork
27 May 2012
Invited Lecture, ‘Auf der Spur einer verlorenen Welt: Über Goethes musikalische Dialoge mit Zelter’, Goethe-Gesellschaft Ludwigsburg, Germany
19 May 2012
Invited Lecture, ‘Durch Schweigen verschleiert: Über Goethes musikalische Dialoge mit Zelter, Goethe-Gesellschaft Kassel, Germany
20 April 2012
Opening Lecture, ‘Goethe and the Allure of Music’, International and Interdisciplinary Conference, Music in Goethe’s Faust: Goethe’s Faust in Music, NUI Maynooth
19 April 2012
Invited Lecture, ‘Goethe und die Verlockung der Musik’, Goethe-Gesellschaft Weimar, Germany
7–10 April 2012
Invited Lecture, In dem Fußstapfens des Meisters: Carl Friedrich Zelter, Protégé von Fasch, Internationale Wissenschaftliche Konferenz, ‘Fasch Vater und Sohn’, zu den 11. Internationalen Fasch-Festtagen 2011 in Anhalt-Zerbst, Germany