DrNicholas Kennedy

Invited as an expert adjudicator and examiner and to give masterclasses for International Grand Music Festival 2026

Artistic Research Symposium: Forging Creative Futures Sydney Conservatorium of Music Participated in discussions, networked with leaders in the field from other institutions, and contributed to the creation of a manifesto for artistic research in Australian higher education

Invited as an expert adjudicator for piano events 225 and 226

McrMAC conference: annual conference of the Society for Music Analysis, University of Manchester & Royal Northern College of Music 14-16/7/25 I presented a paper entitled ‘Analysis’s Aid, or Something More? Reconsidering the Role of Performance in Musical Hermeneutics’

23rd Annual Plenary Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland. University College Dublin, 19–21 June 2025. I presented a paper entitled . “‘A Supernaturally Transfigured Sublimity and Profundity’: The Reception of Beethoven’s Last Three Piano Sonatas in the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century German Literature.”

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47th National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia. Remote conference run from The University of Melbourne, 28–30 November 2024. I presented a paper entitled “‘Rays of Hope from Elysium’: Once More on the Celestial Vistas of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 111, Second Movement.”

Art song concert at St Stephen's Sydney featuring SCM vocal students with all proceeds going to Lifeline

Performers(') Present: Flowing Resonances, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, Singapore, 25–28 October 2023. I presented a lecture-recital entitled “Reflections on a Recording: A Case Study in the Interaction between Analysis and Praxis.”

Reimagining Musical Programming, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 24–26 November 2022. I presented a lecture-recital entitled “Bringing Poetic Back: Embracing Nineteenth-Century Fancy in Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 111.”

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