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The music department is delighted to welcome Wiebke Thormählen, Director of Research at the Royal Northern College of Music and Drama, who will present her latest research on 'Conservatoires, Research, and the UK Culture Industry.
Wiebke Thormählen has contributed articles and reviews to the Journal of Musicology, Eighteenth-Century Music, Early Music, Notes, Acta Mozartiana and Neues Musikwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch and is currently working on a book exploring the meaning of different forms of ‘musical engagements’ in early 19th-century London.
She is a co-investigator on Music, Home and Heritage, Sounding the Domestic in Georgian Britain, a three year AHRC-funded research project, and her multi-faceted work explores the formulation of music as a language of emotions and its particular role in educational theories and policies since the eighteenth century.
Online participation via Teams is open to King's members. Please be in touch with Gavin Williams (gavin.williams@kcl.ac.uk) for the Teams link or with any other queries.
All talks take place in the Saint Davids Room (above the Great Hall, and opposite the chapel, in the King’s Building, Strand) and everyone is welcome!
Wiebke Thormählen
Dr Wiebke Thormählen's research, previously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, and The Austrian Academic Exchange Service, explores the formulation of music as a language of emotions and its particular role in educational theories and policies since the eighteenth century. Having worked on aesthetic and educational ideals in Viennese salons of the late 18th century during her PhD, she now focusses on Britain in the late Georgian period, exploring music in domestic settings with a particular focus on arrangements of large-scale works, and domestic devotional music.
She is currently the Director of Research at the Royal Northern College of Music and Drama, who will present her latest research on 'Conservatoires, Research, and the UK Culture Industry.
Event details
Saint Davids Room (above the Great Hall, and opposite the chapel, in the King’s BuildingStrand Campus
Strand, London, WC2R 2LS