Latest Projects

Ongoing work:

Currently working on a newly engraved scholarly edition of Ethel Smyth’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in C minor (1880).

Forthcoming chapter on Smyth’s chamber music with a major press – stay tuned!

Updates to www.EthelSmyth.org.

Recent conference presentations:

‘Believed to be a witch’: An Examination of Female Agency in Smyth’s Der Wald. Paper presented at the Operatic Feminisms conference, Columbia University and Barnard College, New York City, NY. March 2023.

‘Perhaps what men call a sin…’: An examination of Ethel Smyth’s The Prison. Paper presented as part of a virtual panel, Autobiographical Approaches to Ethel Smyth’s Vocal Works, at the Third International Women’s Work in Music Conference, Bangor University, Wales, UK (virtual). With Dr. Leah Broad (Christ Church, University of Oxford) and Hannah Millington (Dublin City University). September 2021.

‘Perhaps what men call a sin…’: An examination of Ethel Smyth’s The Prison. Paper presented virtually at the “Women are Not Born to Compose”: Female Musical Works from 1750 to 1950 Conference at the Complesso Monumentale di San Micheletto in Lucca, Italy in November 2020.

‘A duty to all womankind’: Ethel Smyth’s Emerging Feminism and her String Quartet in E minor. Paper presented at the Musical Women in Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century conference, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK in February 2020.