Time: 4.30pm–5.30pm
A roundtable panel will discuss their latest performances, releases, publications, or research in 20th-century piano music, and will answer questions from the audience. The panel, chaired by Dr Christina Guillaumier, will consist of Professor Roy Howat, Dr Inja Stanovic, Ralph Van Raat, and Andrew Zolinsky.
Dr Christina Guillaumier is a Reader in Music & Cultural Practice and a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Music, London. A musicologist and pianist with an early background in the dramatic arts, she brings an interdisciplinary approach to her work, spanning music, history, politics, and cultural practice. Her research interests include genetic criticism, archival research, and the role of cities in fostering cultural and artistic resistance. Dr Guillaumier is an award-winning author and editor. She has published widely, including the monograph The Operas of Sergei Prokofiev (Boydell & Brewer, 2020), the co-edited volume Rethinking Prokofiev (Oxford University Press, 2020), and the critical biography Prokofiev (Reaktion Books, 2024). She also serves as an editor for Bärenreiter, specialising in critical editions of piano music, and is a peer reviewer for several academic journals and publishing houses.
Professor Roy Howat has been Keyboard Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music since 2003, and professorial Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland since 2013, as well as Visiting Professor at the University of Adelaide. He studied at the RSAMD and Cambridge University, where his doctorate formed the basis of his 1983 book Debussy in proportion. He combines international concert performance with research, which has included revelations about musical structure, performing and editorial issues. Among his publications are acclaimed critical editions of major works by Debussy, Fauré, Chopin and Chabrier, the book The Art of French Piano Music, chapters in numerous other books, and a wide range of CD recordings.
Photo credit: Fleur Kilpatrick
Dr Inja Stanović is a pianist and a researcher, specialising in early recordings and historic performance practices. Most recent publications include the co-edited (with Dr Eva Moreda Rodríguez) volume Early Sound Recordings: Academic Research and Practice (Routledge, 2023), research album Austro-German revivals: (Re)constructing Acoustic Recordings (co-authored with Dr David Milsom; University of Huddersfield Press, 2023) and the article for Music & Practice, '(Re)constructing Early Recordings: Reviving the Brave Belgians' (co-authored with Dr Jeroen Billiet, 2023). Inja currently works as Surrey Future Senior Fellow and Director of Performance at the University of Surrey, where she directs the Early Recordings Association, a digital platform for historical recording research and practice.
Andrew Zolinsky has performed at major worldwide festivals and venues, including the International Piano series (Southbank Centre, London) and at Merkin Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music and Le Poisson Rouge in New York, Venice Biennale, Musica Festival (Strasbourg, France), National Concert Hall (Dublin), Harpa Concert Hall (Reykjavik) and Tempere Biennale (Finland). He has performed with most of the BBC Orchestras, London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lorraine and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. Andrew is closely associated with the music of Unsuk Chin. He has given the French, London, Irish and Italian premieres of her Six Etudes and the London, Irish and French premières of her Piano Concerto. Other composers who have written for him include David Lang, Michael Finnissy, Simon Holt, Linda Buckley, Lilija Maria Ásmundsdottir and Pavel Zemek Novak. Andrew is professor of piano and contemporary piano at the Royal College of Music.
