SYMPOSIA
Academic speaking & writing engagements
Telling Stories Performers (‘) Present International Artistic Research Symposium
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Singapore
Title: Practice-based research exploring Stateless Odyssey – a new hybrid operatic work-in-development co-created by Sally Blackwood (opera architect), Lawrence English (composer) and Vanessa Tomlinson (composer), commissioned by Bleach The Gold Coast Festival.
23-26 October 2019
Theatre and Internationalisation & Barrie Kosky: Past Present and Future
The Department of International Studies: Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts,
Macquarie University, in co-operation with the Goethe-Institut
PAPER: Collaborative Auteurship: international cross disciplinary collaborations and situated
practice-based research with Sasha Waltz & Guests and Sally Blackwood
26-27 April 2019
NOW 2019 New Opera Workshop
Opera Symposium – Opera Queensland and Queensland Conservatorium at Griffith University
5-7 April 2019
Through the Looking Glass – 41st MSA Conference
Musicology Society of Australia, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts,
Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia
PAPER: Project Faust opera/ballet: A critical analysis of the auteur creation
Award Winner: 3rd Prize Best Postgraduate Paper 2018 Awards
Outstanding presentation and engagement with audience. Deeply engaging topic around creative practice work.
6-9 December 2018
Discovering Don Giovanni Opera Symposium
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
PAPER: Me and Don: It’s a personal thing
Tuesday 25 September 2018
Opera Studies Day
New Zealand School of Music, Te Kōkī, Victoria, University of Wellington
PAPER: A critical analysis of the auteur creation of Project Faust opera/ballet
Saturday 14 July 2018
Graduate Research Symposium, Musicology Colloquium Series
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
RESEARCH: A critical analysis of the auteur creation of Project Faust opera/ballet
Friday 18 May 2018
Creative Work Project #2 as part of my Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA)
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
RESEARCH: A critical analysis of the auteur creation of Project Faust opera/ballet
Wednesday 18 April 2018
Best Practice in Artistic Research in Music Symposium
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
#voxpopera a performance presentation of practice-based-research-in-action, and poster presentation talk.
27-29 September 2017
Women in the Creative Arts inaugural conference
The School of Music, Australian National University Canberra
10-12 August 2017