Keynotes

Professor Katharine Ellis

1684 Professor of Music, University of Cambridge

Professor Ellis is a cultural historian specializing in French music from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her research encompasses a broad range of topics, from medieval plainchant to the works of Les Six, focusing on the cultural significance of musical practices. She has held esteemed academic positions at institutions such as the Open University, Royal Holloway (University of London), and the University of Bristol, prior to her current appointment at Cambridge. Her contributions have been recognized by her election to the Academia Europaea (2010), the British Academy (2013), and the American Philosophical Society (2017).

Selected Publications:

  • Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France: 'La Revue et gazette musicale de Paris' 1834–80
  • Interpreting the Musical Past: Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France
  • The Politics of Plainchant in fin-de-siècle France
  • French Musical Life: Local Dynamics in the Century to World War II

Institutional Profile

Amy Bauer

Professor of Music, University of California, Irvine

Professor Bauer’s scholarly work focuses on contemporary music, with a particular emphasis on composers such as György Ligeti, Thomas Adès, and Helmut Lachenmann. Her research encompasses both the philosophy and reception of modernist music as well as detailed analyses of spectral music. She earned her Ph.D. in music theory from Yale University and has published extensively in leading academic journals.

Selected Publications:

  • Ligeti's Laments: Nostalgia, Exoticism, and the Absolute
  • The Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music (Co-editor)

Institutional Profile

Jérémy Michot

Maître de conférences en musicologie, Université de Tours

érémy Michot is a specialist in the study of music in audiovisual contexts, particularly television series and film music. His research interests include the analysis of musical representations in media and the exploration of queer perspectives in musicology. He has contributed to the understanding of how music functions within narrative structures and its impact on audience perception.

Selected Publications:

  • Écouter la fin du monde : The Walking Dead et la musique en dé-composition
  • La prééminence du modèle chanté dans la musique de Game of Thrones : deux études de cas
  • Les sortilèges musicaux de Buffy contre les vampires
  • Les musiques originales de série télévisée à l’ère des networks (1950-2010) : histoires, échos et singularités

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