DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
University of Oxford, supervised by Prof. Eric Clarke (2021)
‘The technique of Coleman Hawkins: rhythm, harmony, melody, development’
Full text downloadable here:
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ec701082-6d79-4edd-9778-9735048cfc41
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
‘Cinema: A Privileged Way of Acquiring Intimacy with Jazz Standards’, in Cinema Changes: Incorporations of Jazz in the Film Soundtrack, Emile Wennekes and Emilio Audissino, eds, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2019.
‘“Und lass’ die Uhren alle, alle stehn”: Listening To Late Romantic Music In Monaural Sound: An Apology’, in Richard Strauss-Jahrbuch 2019, Oswald Panagl and Matthew Werley, eds, Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag, 2022.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
Karajan and the Legacy of Sound Materiality (Universität Salzburg, Universität Mozarteum, AU, 6-7 Spetember 2019): ‘The 1960 Salzburg Rosenkavalier: what monaural sound tells us about Strauss, Karajan, and the expressivity of singers’.
Jazz Voices 2018 (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, AU, 17-20 May 2018): ‘Vocal inflections and associated expressive techniques in the playing of prominent African American tenor saxophonists of the 1940s’.
Re/Sounding Jazz (University of Amsterdam, NL, 31 August-3 September 2017): ‘Coleman Hawkins at the Movies: Jazz Recordings of Songs Originally Written for Hollywood’.
When Jazz Meets Cinema (Lovere, IT, organized by Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, 5-7 May 2017): ‘Cinema: A Privileged Way of Reacquiring Cultural Intimacy With Jazz Standards’.
Miles Davis and John Coltrane at 90: Retrospect and Prospect (Surrey University, UK, 21-23 October 2016): ‘“Miles and Coltrane… they messed up the music”. Stylistic disputes, transmission of the craft, and the morals of music’.
