Activities
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2025
February – May 2025
Univeristy of York
'The Romantic Performer'
Undergraduate module on embodied research into C19th performance practices
2–5 February 2025
Orpheus Instituut, Ghent: General Assembly
February 2025 Date TBC
Talk and masterclass for students at Koninklijk Muziekconservatorium, Gent
27– 29 January 2025
Dutch Historical Acting Collective Winter Confabulation
Private presentations and workshops
27 January 2025
Talk and masterclass for students at Konklijk Conservatoirium, Den Haag
(Host: Nicola Boud and Teunis van der Zwart)
2024
2–4 December 2024
Orpheus Instituut, Ghent: General Assembly
5 December 2024
Talk and masterclass at Konklijk Conservatorium Brussel
(Host: Jeroen Billiet and Benjamin Dieltjens)
19–22 November 2024
Carl Reinecke Symposium, Paris
Concert with Fanny Davies Ensemble
Emily Worthington (clarinet), Aldo Mata (cello), and Laura Granero (piano)
Workshops at CRR Paris Rue de Madred
details forthcoming
6–8 November 2024
Fanny Davies Ensemble, Basel
Masterclasses, talks and concert at Klavieratelier Mignon 1906, Binningen
Emily Worthington (clarinet), Aldo Mata (cello), and Laura Granero (piano)
programme to include:
Carl Baermann: Etudes op. 63
Carl Reinecke: Trio op. 274
30 October – 3 November 2024
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
Recording Sessions (private)
Emily Worthington (clarinet), Daniel Grimwood (piano)
September 2024
Residency: Sydney Conservatorium, University of Sydney
10 September 2024
'Embodied Knowledge and HIP'
Teaching session with Sydney Con Historical Performance students
16 September 2024
Workshop with Sydney Con Early-Career Research Staff on developing, documenting and reporting Non-Traditional Research Outputs
13 September 2024
Sydney Conservatorium Early Music Ensemble
Neal Peres da Costa (director)
Emily Worthington (co-director/clarinet)
Anna Fraser (Soprano)
Weber: Clarinet Concerto no. 1 in F minor op. 73
Schubert: Ellen’s Gesang III Op. 52 No. 6
Spohr: 'Zwiegesang', 'Wiegenlied' and 'Sei still mein Herz' From Six German Songs for Voice, Clarinet and Piano Op. 103
Beethoven: Rondino in E-flat major WoO 25
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides, op. 26
Workshops, rehearsals and presentations on C19th style and interpretations inspired by early recordings and 19th-century editions, leading to public concert.
3–5 August 2024
Dutch Historical Acting Collective Summer Confabulation
Private presentations and workshops
9–12 August 2024
Creative Exchange Workshop (private)
with Daniel Grimwood (piano) and Kate Bennett Wadsworth (Cello)
Brahms and Mendelssohn
June 2024
English Haydn Festival
14 June
Consone Quartet and members of the English Haydn Orchestra
Schubert: Octet in F
15 June
The English Haydn Orchestra con. Steven Devine
Emily Worthington – clarinet
Weber: Clarinet Concerto No.1 in F minor (1811)
17–18 May 2024
Indiana University Bloomington
Ninth Annual International Conference in Historical Performance
Paper: 'Training Vortrag: Phrasing, Character and Narrative in Baermann’s Vollständige Clarinett-Schule Opp. 63-64 (1860-64)'
22-24 April 2024
Orpheus Instituut, Ghent: General Assembly
Work-in-progress performance: Weber Grand Duo op. 48 for Clarinet and Piano
with Daniel Grimwood
10 key clarinet by Agnes Gueroult after Lotz; Fortepiano by Chris Maene after Nanette Streicher, 1816
4–8 February 2024
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Piano-Playing Styles of the 19th Century
Lecture-Recital: 'Two Heavenly Messengers: Fanny Davies & Richard Mühlfeld'
with Laura Granero, piano (University of the Arts, Vienna)
2023
11–13 December 2023
Orpheus Instituut, Ghent: General Assembly
Work-in-progress: 'Carl Baermann and the Romantic Imagination'
Presentation to 'Declassifying the Classics' research cluster (dir: Tom Beghin)
18 November 2023
Musikhochschule Lübeck
Workshop: Musicians on the Move in the Long Nineteenth Century
Invited presentation: 'Mapping and understanding Carl Baermann’s musical travel'
2-4 November 2023
Institute Interpretation, Hochschule der Künst Bern:
Conference: Historical Embodiment in Musical Performance
Paper: ‘Baermann's Body: Understanding Embodiment in Historically Informed Performance’
22 October 2023
Fanny Davies Ensemble, Concert in Bougival
Emily Worthington, clarinet, Aldo mata, cello, and Laura Granero, piano
Clara Schumann – Piano Trio in A minor
Brahms arr. Laurischkus – Lieder
Robert Schumann –Fantasiestücke op. 73/1
11–18 October 2023
Leadership Network of Global Music Education League, Beijing
Invited talk: 'What's the point of Historical Performance'?
Plus workshops with students in Beijing and Tianjin
2–20 October 2023
Orchestre de Champs-Elysees Nouveau Monde
Philippe Herreweghe (dir.) Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
Concerts in Poitiers and Aix-en-Provence
25–27 Sepetember
Orpheus Instituut, Ghent: General Assembly
26–28 June
Orpheus Instituut, Ghent: General Assembly
20 June
AHRC Annual Fellows Conference: Developing and Sustaining a Career in the Arts and Humanities
Panel Session: ‘Enabling Research Cultures for Career Sustainability’
Emily Worthington (York), Jane Thompson (UCU), Melissa Jogie (Roehampton), Ailsa Grant Ferguson (Brighton), Zeina Maasri (Bristol)
8–10 May
Orpheus Instituut, Ghent: General Assembly
18–19 April
Orpheus Instituut, Ghent: Pilot Workshop
Dr Emily Worthington, Dr Anne Pustlauk, Christopher Palameta, Edurne Santos, Alessandro Denabian
13–15 February
Orpheus Instituut, Ghent: General Assembly