International Conferences
“Remembrance: Theodore Antoniou and John Daverio in Dialogue” [invited]
“Theodore Antoniou: Homo Musicalis”
Two-day conference & concerts dedicated to the composer, conductor, professor and member of the Academy of Athens Theodore Antoniou (1935-2018); organized by the Department of Music Science & Art, University of Macedonia, Salonica, Greece, and the Greek Composers’ Union; University of Macedonia, Salonica, Greece, 10-11 February 2024 (virtual)
“Mediating the Pan-Erotic: John Neumeier’s Choreography of Mahler’s Third Symphony” [invited]
International Symposium: (Re)-Mediating Mahler
Organized by the Gustav Mahler Research Foundation (Innsbruck) and the Euregio Cultural Center Gustav Mahler; Toblach, Italy, 15-16 September 2023
“Consecrating the Stage: Uwe Scholz’s Choreographic Completion of Mozart’s Große Messe” [keynote lecture, invited]
“Music and the Spiritual since the French Revolution”
Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, Italy, December 2022
“Of Holograms, Wolves and Ducks: Eclectic Soundscapes in Blade Runner 2049”
21st Quinquennial Congress, International Musicological Society Conference
School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, August 2022
“Spontini Performs Bach”
First International Conference “Bach and Italy”; Conservatorio Statale di Musica, “G. Verdi,” Torino, Italy, November 2020 [virtual, due to the pandemic]
“Choreographing the Seventh Symphony”
“Beethoven the European”
Conference organized by Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca, Italy, March 2020 [postponed due to the pandemic; virtual conference, December 2020]
“Subversive Mozart? Re-examining the Two Armored Men Scene in Die Zauberflöte”
Austrian Studies Association Annual Conference
Bowling Green State University and Paris-Lodron Universität Salzburg, BGSU, April 2019
“Liszt’s Gran Mass, or, How to ‘Smuggle Venusberg into Church Music’”
20th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music
University of Huddersfield, UK, July 2018
“Dance and the City: Degas’s Ballerinas at the Opéra”
“City, Space, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century Performance”
University of Warwick at Palazzo Pesaro-Papafava, Venice, Italy, June 2018
“Eclectic Soundscapes in Blade Runner 2049”
Annual Conference, Music and the Moving Image
New York University, NYC, May 2018
“Uwe Scholz’s Choreographic Conception of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony”
20th International Musicological Society Conference
Tokyo, Japan, March 2017
“Faustian Struggle and Christian Redemption in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony”
“Music in Goethe’s Faust: Goethe’s Faust in Music”
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, 2012
“Teleiosis without Telos in Schubert’s Mass in E flat”
“Thanatos as Muse?: Schubert and Concepts of Late Style”
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, 2011
“On the British Reception of Ken Russell’s Mahler”
Gustav Mahler Centenary Conference, “Mahler: Contemporary of the Past?”
University of Surrey, UK, 2011
“Ken Russell’s Mahler as Reception History”
International Symposium: “After Mahler’s Death”
Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria, 2011
“‘Where have you taken us, Kara?’: Negotiating Music and the Aural Space in Battlestar Galactica”
Annual Conference, Music and the Moving Image
New York University, 2009
“Manifest Content vs. Latent Content in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s Tristan und Isolde”
44th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Three-member panel titled “Digital Tristans: A Forum on Electronic Editions of Tristan Manuscripts”; Kalamazoo, MI, 2009
“‘Is there life after birth?’: Interrogating the Sensuous in Manos Hadjidakis’s Soundtrack for Dušan Makavejev’s Sweet Movie”
Hellenic Music Festival, Conference on “Greek Music for the Opera and other Forms of the Performing arts in the 20th Century”
Athens Megaron Concert Hall, Greece, 2009
“Mass Transitions”
18th International Musicological Society Conference, “Transition-Passagen”
Zürich, Switzerland, 2007
“The Religious Impulse in Schumann’s Dramatic Settings of Goethe: The Requiem für Mignon and Faust”
“New Paths”: Robert Schumann, 1848-1856
McGill University, Montréal, Canada, 2006
“Brahms’s Gesang der Parzen as Commentary on German Romantic Hellenism”
Hellenic Music Festival, Conference on “Aspects of Hellenism in Music”
Athens Megaron Concert Hall, Athens, Greece, 2006
“Brahms, Böcklin, ed il Gesang der Parzen” [in Italian]
Società Italiana di Musicologia
Conservatorio di Musica “Gioachino Rossini,” Pesaro, Italy, 2005
“Beethoven’s Missa solemnis and the Aesthetics of the Mass in the Nineteenth Century”
“Beethoven and the Creative Process”
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 2003
“‘Death in Vienna’: Ken Russell’s Mahler”
Traveling Concepts III: Memory, Image, Narrativity
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2002
National Conferences
“Mediating the Pan-Erotic: John Neumeier’s Choreography of Mahler’s Third Symphony”
North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, June 2025
“Nijinska’s Ballet Étude: Assessing Existing Evidence”
Music and Dance Study Group, Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society
Participant in a session on Bronislava Nijinska, AMS, Chicago, Illinois, 2024
“Religion, Music, and AI: Why Battlestar Galactica is Still Relevant” [invited]
Annual Meeting of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music
Participant in a 3-paper session, “Music and Religion in Battlestar Galactica” on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the series; Wheaton College, Illinois, March 2024
Panel Discussion and Book Presentation: “Redefining Sacred Music in the 19th Century” [invited]
Annual conference of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music
Panel discussion surrounding the publication of my co-edited book, Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century: Church, Stage, and Concert Hall.
Panelists: Jeremy Begbie (Duke Divinity School), Eftychia Papanikolaou (Bowling Green State University), Markus Rathey (Yale University); Duke University, March 2023.
“Uwe Scholz’s Große Messe”
Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2014
“The Religious Impulse in Schumann’s Scenen aus Goethes Faust”
Annual Meeting of Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship
Boston University, 2010
“Spontini and the City: Bach and Musical Politics in Berlin”
33rd Annual Conference, German Studies Association
Participant in the session “Mendelssohn’s Milieu: Music, the Sacred, and the Secular in the Nineteenth Century”; Washington DC, 2009
“Doctrine and Teleology in Schubert’s Mass in E flat”
Annual Meeting of Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship
University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 2009
“Apollo’s Arrow and Orpheus’s Lyre: Music in Battlestar Galactica”
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference
Session on Science Fiction and Fantasy; Boston, 2007
“Religion and Nationalism in Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Coronation Mass”
Annual Meeting of Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship
Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 2007
“Elements of Subversion in the Music of the Two Armored Men in Mozart’s Zauberflöte”
Conference on Mozart and Die Zauberflöte
Sponsored by the Mozart Society of America and the Santa Fe Opera (50th anniversary of the founding of the Santa Fe Opera); Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2006
Other
“Choreographing the Symphony: Perspectives on Uwe Scholz’s Ballet-Symphonien”
Guest lecture, Indiana University, Musicology Department Colloquium Series, October
2016
“Interrogating the Sacred: Beethoven’s Missa solemnis”
Guest lecture, Ohio State University, Musicology Department Colloquium Series,
February 2011
“Beethoven’s Missa solemnis”
Guest lecture for the School of Music, State University of New York at Fredonia, October 2006
“Brahms, Böcklin, and the Gesang der Parzen”
Fall Meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society, National-Louis University, Chicago, Fall 2005
“Mahler’s Eighth Symphony”
Spring Meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Harvard University, Spring 2000
“Terrence McNally’s Master Class: The Mastery of Maria and the Class of Callas”
Fall Meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Spring 1997
“The Music of the Hellenophones in the Greek-Speaking Villages of Southern Italy”
Spring Meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, Spring 1996