I’m a music professional with an internationally-recognised expertise in orchestral repertoires in Britain and in France from the 1960s onwards. I have an academic background in musicology, business and art management, and experience in artistic planning and concert production with several ensembles, festivals and universities.
- Orchestral repertoires and canon formation
- Symphony orchestras in France and Britain
- Anton Arensky (1861-1906)
'Orchestral Repertoires and Canons: What We Value, Remember and Forget', Music Research in Scotland, University of Glasgow, Aug 2026.
'Translating Nostalgia: Anton Arensky’s Memories Op. 71 and Sergei Rachmaninov’s Romances Op. 8', Multilingualism in Art Song, University of Glasgow, Dec 2025.
'Pierre Boulez on the Podium: his Vision and Legacy in British Orchestras’ Programmes', Music and the Arts in France – 1925: Anniversaries and Confluences, University of Leeds, Nov 2025.
'From the Screen to the Concert Hall: Canonical Trajectories of Film Music in French and British Orchestral Canons', Film Music Between the Movies and the Concert Hall, University of Graz, Nov 2023.
'Screen Music in British and French Concert Halls: High Culture, Mass Entertainment and Orchestral Canons', 57th Rotal Musical Association Annual Conference, Newcastle University, Sept 2021.
'Soviet Emigrés and the Introduction of Twentieth-Century Russian music in British Symphony Orchestras’ Programmes', Russian-British Intercultural Dialogue: Russian Music in Britain – British Music in Russia, University of Central Lancashire, Nov 2019.
'Flying Swans, Frozen Lakes and Dark Forests: the Landscape-Based Discourse on Nordic Music from Britain to France', Rethinking (Self)Translation in (Trans)national Contexts, University of Manchester, Jun 2019.
'Programming Choices in French and British Symphony Orchestras: Canonic Practices, National Culture and Corporate Innovation', The Classical Music Industry, Middlesex University London, Oct 2018.
'Debussy, Bernstein, Finland: Musical Celebrations of the Year 2018 by Symphony Orchestras in France and in the United Kingdom', Historical Perspectives Conference, University of Glasgow, Feb 2018.
'Identities and Symphony Orchestras: Programming Choices in France and in the United Kingdom', Royal Musical Association 2018 Student Conference, University of Huddersfield, Jan 2018.
'Collections in Music: Symphony Orchestras’ Concert Programmes', Collections Then and Now, University of Glasgow, Oct 2017.
'Beyond Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Russian Romances on Foreign Literature: Arensky’s Memories, Op. 71, and Rachmaninov’s Romances, Op. 8', in A Cultural History of Translation (Vol. 5): A Cultural History of Translation in the Emergence of the Modern World (19th-early 20th c. CE) by Lena Foljanty, James Thompson and Lieven D’hulst (eds). Bloomsbury: London, 2026.
'Soviet Emigrés and the Introduction of Twentieth-Century Russian Music in British Symphony Orchestras', Российско-британский культурный диалог: русская музыка в Великобритании – британская музыка в России: сборник по материалам Международной научно-практической конференции,Е.А. Артамонова , Г.У. Лукина, О.М. Табачникова. М.: Государственный институт искусствознания, 2020.
'Soviet Emigrés and the Introduction of Twentieth-Century Russian Music in British Symphony Orchestras’ Programmes', Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research 368, 777-780, 2019.
'Programming Screen Music: the Case of British and French Symphony Orchestras', Music on Screen: From Cinema Screens to Touchscreens. Musicology Research 2, 183-200, 2017.
'Anton Arensky and the Rise of Musical Nationalism in Late 19th-Century Russia', eSharp: Rise and Fall 25/ 2, 1-10, 2017.