The SongArt Performance Research Group produces a range of types of research output, including publications, conference papers, performances, public experimental performance and research events, audio and video logs, and written event reports.

Reports

2011 IMR SongArt Study Day: "Inside Song Performance" by Kathryn Whitney [Click to download PDF]

2010 IMR SongArt Study Day: "Performativity Poetry Creation: Investigating the Creative Space of Live Art Song Performance". by Kathryn Whitney. [Click to dowload PDF]

Public Events

13 May 2011: IMR Song Study Day: "Inside Song Performance: Mapping the Interior of the Performative Act" an RMA Sponsored Public Research Event at the School of Advanced Study, London

18 May 2010: IMR Song Study Day: "Performativity, Poetry Creation: Investigating the Creative Space of Live Art Song Performance." Public Research Event at the School of Advanced Study, London

Research dissemination

ONLINE PERFORMANCE AND LECTURE VIDEOS

The SongArt Performance Research Channel: SongArtVideoSpace

iTunes University: University of London School of Advanced Study Lectures

PRESENTATIONS / LECTURE-RECITALS

Schubert Institute, London (19 November, 2012) 20th Anniversary of the Schubert Institute, Special Goethe and Schubert Study Day. Lecture-recital: “Performing Goethe’s poetry; performing Schubert’s song." Presenters: Amanda Glauert and Kathryn Whitney

Love to Death: Transforming Opera / Royal Musicological Association Annual Conference. (2 June, 2012) Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Lecture-recital: "Aesthetic transfer in live performance": Presenter: Kathryn Whitney

IMR & Centre for Music Performance as Creative Practice Performance Research Seminar. (21 May 2012) Chancellor's Hall, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1. Lecture-recital: "Liveness': a quality, a platform, an essential creative space in notated music" Presenter: Kathryn Whitney

Mount Allison University, Canada (4 June 2011): Conference: Canadian University Music Society. Paper: "Inside Song Performance: mapping the interior of the performative act." Presenter: Kathryn Whitney

King's College, London & City University (1-2 July 2011): Conference: RMA Music and Philosophy Research Group. Collaborative Paper: "What kind of thing is liveness?: preliminary answers from the interior of an operatic voice (with performance excerpts from to Heloise to Abelard, by John McCabe, CBE). Presenter: Kathryn Whitney

University of Averio, Portugal, Department of Communication and Art (19-21 May 2011): Conference: PERFORMA International Performance Studies Conference. Lecture-recital: "What kind of thing is liveness?: preliminary answers from the interior of an operatic voice (with performance excerpts from to Heloise to Abelard, by John McCabe, CBE). Presenter: Kathryn Whitney

University of Bristol (22 March, 2011):Faculty Research Colloquium: Illustrated Lecture: "Is (art song) performance creative? Conflicting perspectives from the interior of the performative act.‟ Presenter: Kathryn Whitney

University of Regina, Canada(2-5 June, 2010): Conference: Canadian University Music Society. Paper: "Performativity, poetry and creation: in search of a language of live art song performance‟ Presenter: Kathryn Whitney