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Academic Publications

“Nothing New Under the Sun: Composition as Adaptation,” The Cambridge Companion to Composition, ed. Toby Young. June 2024.

Invited review-essay, Andrew Norman’s A Trip To the Moon. The Opera Quarterly, Oxford University Press. Vol. 33, No. 2 (2018), 188-202.

“‘Here Be Dragons’: Voice and Opera at the Edge of the Map.” Review-essay. Cambridge Opera Journal, Cambridge University Press. Vol. 28, No. 3 (2016), 373-383.

“A Leap of Faith: Composing in the Wasteland of Postmodernism.” Tempo, Oxford University Press. Vol. 64, No. 253 (2010), 30-40.

Conference Papers

“Room to Fail or Doomed to Fail? How misunderstandings of creative labor in opera undermine new works.” Modern Language Association convention, 2023

“Better Off Dead? Challenges in Researching Living Composers”, roundtable, American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, 2021

“Operatic Ironies in Written on Skin.” Opera in Flux: Identity, Staging, Narrative. Conference, University of Illinois Chicago, 2020

“‘Site’-specific Opera: Invisible Cities and Postminimal Opera in the Age of YouTube.“ Seventh International Conference on Minimalist Music. Cardiff University, Wales, 2019

“‘salt strange and sweet’: Timbre and Tension in Written on Skin.” American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 2018

“‘salt strange and sweet’: Musical and Dramatic Tensions in Written on Skin.” 54th Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association, University of Liverpool, 2017

“Dazzled By The Stars: Beethoven, Kant, and the Confusions of the Sublime.” 6th Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group, King’s College London, 2017

“All Aria: Minimalism and Postdramatic Opera.” Sixth International Conference on Music and Minimalism, Society for Minimalist Music, University of Tennessee, 2017

“This Is Not Catharsis: the grotesque, the uncanny, and the problematic ending of Wozzeck.” The International Conference on Music Since 1900, University of Glasgow, 2015

Interviews,
Symposia

Interview: ‘Soundstreams present The Bright Divide’, Foyer, Art Gallery of Ontario (Oct. 2023)

Feature profile, Opera Canada magazine, Vol. 63 No. 4 (Spring 2023), pg. 26-29.

Cover feature, La Scena Musicale magazine, Vol. 28 No. 6 (Apr-May 2023).

“The Labours of Love: Resurrecting Haydn’s Orfeo,” symposium, University of Toronto

‘Lives in Music’ series, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto

Opera Canada “Dear Composer… Dear Singer” interview, with mezzo Krisztina Szabó

Opera Canada’s Artist’s Picks series

Guest on Sound Expertise podcast, hosted by Will Robin

Canada-UK Foundation ‘Friday Files’ interview

Blog for Glyndebourne, about choreographer Crystal Pite, to mark International Women’s Day

University of Toronto Opera