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Carrie Churnside

Associate Professor in Music & Research Degrees Coordinator

Email:
carrie.churnside@bcu.ac.uk

Carrie Churnside is聽Associate Professor in Music and Research Degrees Coordinator. She is also Director of the Forum for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Music,听and Chair of the Programme Committee for the 19th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music.

Carrie聽specialises in Italian Baroque music, particularly the genre of the cantata.

After graduating from the University of 探花直播 with a BA (Hons, First Class) in English and Music in 2002, she went on to complete an MPhil on cantatas by Giovanni Paolo Colonna ('Colonna's Cantatas for the Medici: A Study of GB-Lbm Add. MS 27931') and a PhD on Bolognese volumes of cantate morali e spirituali ('A Study of Sacred Cantatas Printed in Bologna 1659-1717').

Prior to joining the staff of the Conservatoire in 2010 she held a Rome Fellowship at the 聽(2008-9), studying Roman seventeenth-century sacred cantatas.

Carrie's research centres on Italian seventeenth-century vocal music, in particular the relationship between text and music, and its performance context. She has presented at various international conferences throughout Europe. Recent work includes studies of the relationship between composer and librettist in early eighteenth-century oratorio, propaganda cantatas that discuss the Ottoman conflict, and music printing and publishing in Bologna at the beginning of the eighteenth century. She is also a member of the Council of the Handel Institute.

Current projects include an edited volume,听Transitions in Mid-Baroque Music: Style, Genre and Performance聽(for Boydell press) and a study of musical patronage in Bologna c. 1700, based on documents in the Albergati archive.聽She is also working on an edition of聽Muzio Scevola聽(HWV 13), an opera by Filippo Amadei, Giovanni Bononcini and George Frideric Handel, for the Hallische H盲ndel-Ausgabe.

She teaches on a number of modules for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses, on subjects including performance practice, Italian Baroque music, women and music, and music and philosophy, as well as supervising research students.

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