Prof Fiona M Palmer

    Music

    Professor of Music
    Director of Research

    On Sabbatical until September 2022
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    Biography


    Summary Biography

    Fiona M. Palmer (Professor of Music) is a musicologist and a performer whose research expertise lies in the cultural history of music and musicians in the marketplace (1780s–1940s). Her current large-scale research project is focused on a monograph under contract with Boydell Press and provisionally titled Conductors in Britain, 1914–1933. This book is planned as a sequel to her groundbreaking prosopography, Conductors in Britain, 1870–1914: Wielding the Baton at the Height of Empire (Boydell, 2017). Fiona's publications include studies of soloists, conductors, performance and professional institutions, and music publishers. Her research explores the culture and commerce of the British music profession by engaging with issues including professionalization, networking, reception, and performance practice.

    Fiona served as Professor and Head of Maynooth University's Department of Music (2007–14) and as its Director of Research (2017–21). A double bassist, mezzo-soprano, and flautist, She is a first-class honours graduate of Birmingham Conservatoire and undertook her PhD in Musicology (British Academy Scholar) at the University of Birmingham. Aside from academic posts, her varied career has included work as a professional orchestral player, as the Manager of the Examinations Department at the ABRSM (London), and as a peripatetic instrumental/vocal teacher and conductor. In October 2007 Fiona moved from a Senior Lectureship at Queen’s University, Belfast, to take up the position of Professor of Music and Head of Department at Maynooth University. During her Headship (2007–2014) the Department of Music expanded its personnel and physical resources; undertook a systematic review and development of its research activities, taught programmes, and postgraduate research provision; and expanded its conference hosting, ensemble portfolio, and concert-giving activities. 

    Research & Publications

    Conducting and Conductors:
    • *Current monograph project focused on the conducting profession in Britain, 1914–1930s (under contract with Boydell Press).
    • Published in Music and Letters (August 2021) her peer-reviewed article, 'The Musical Conductors' Association: Collective Podium Power in Wartime Britain', provides new insights in respect of individual and collective agency, networks, collective bargaining, and authority among British conductors who sought to identify themselves as a separate and powerful branch of the music profession during the First World War.
    • Fiona's most recent monograph, Conductors in Britain,1870–1914: Wielding the Baton at the Height of Empire (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017), presents a new interpretation of the evolution of conducting as a profession in late-Victorian Britain. The varied fortunes of eight conductors (Julius Benedict, William Cusins, Arthur Sullivan, Joseph Barnby, Alexander C. Mackenzie, Frederic H. Cowen, Dan Godfrey Jr and Landon Ronald) provide a lens through which institutional and professional opportunities during this dynamic period are analyzed in a fresh and richly-contextualized way. Drawing on detailed research into British concert-life it sheds new light on the histories of organizations including the Philharmonic Society of London, Liverpool Philharmonic Society, Manchester's Hallé Orchestra, the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, the Royal Choral Society, Birmingham Promenade Concerts and music festivals nationwide.    

    Music Publishing, Musicians' Careers and Networks: Novello and Dragonetti
    Fiona’s previous books include: Vincent Novello (1781–1861): Music for the Masses (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006) — the first large-scale contextualized reappraisal of the career of the pioneering London-based editor and publisher. This monograph complements her earlier book which repositioned one of nineteenth-century London's most influential, well-connected and successful virtuosi: Dragonetti in England (1794–1846): the Career of a Double Bass Virtuoso (Oxford University Press, 1997).  

    Summary of other recent publications/outputs:
    • RTÉ lyricfm Interval Feature on Handel's Messiah and its continuing relevance in the 21st century [listen here (starts at 57 minutes into this broadcast link)]
    • A detailed analysis and contextualization of the socio-economic and professional underpinnings of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society’s development in the mid-19th-century (New York: OUP, 2018)
    • An interrogation of the value and exploitation of pedigree, networks, and marketing in the careers of conductors in 19th-century Britain (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2016)
    • An appraisal of the role of Handel’s Messiah in 19th-century Britain in relation to wider European nationalism and choral power (Leiden: Brill, 2015)
    • A contextualization of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society's conductors in the second half of the nineteenth century (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014)
    • A chapter examining the inauguration of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society's Hall (1849): 'A Home for the 'Phil': Liverpool's First Philharmonic Hall (1849)' in P. Rodmell, ed., Music and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Ashgate, 2012).
    Fiona's work has also been published in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association; 19th-Century British Music Studies 3; The Musical Times; The Strad; Early Music; Victorian Studies; Muzio Clementi: Studies & Prospects; the Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland; and in the newsletters of the North American British Music Studies Association and the Handel Society.  She has written and revised entries for New Grove 2; the New Dictionary of National Biography; Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart; the Dictionary of Hymnology; the Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland; and the Encyclopaedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe. 

    Recent international conference papers and invited lectures have been given in Switzerland, Finland, the USA, Italy, Croatia, and in the UK (Oxford, Liverpool, Manchester, London, Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff and Cambridge).  

    Outreach

    Fiona was a Director on the Board of the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland (2007–22) and currently serves on the Nominations Committee of the North American British Music Studies Association. She is an External Examiner for the BMus programme at the MTU Cork School of Music (2020—), and also for the University of Birmingham's MA in Music programme (2021—). She previously served as an external examiner for University of Liverpool's BA Music programme (2018—2022) and for degree programmes at Liverpool Hope University, the Royal College of Music and at the Dundalk Institute of Technology; and for doctoral and MPhil dissertations at the Universities of Melbourne, Birmingham, Leeds, Canterbury Christchurch College, Edinburgh, and Queen’s Belfast; and at the Royal College of Music (London) and Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester).

    Fiona is a member of the editorial board of the OJBR and and acts as a peer reviewer for a range of publishers. She was a member of the founding editorial board for the Studies in British Musical Cultures Series (NABMSA/Clemson University Press) (2019–21) and served on the International Advisory Board for the Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle. Conference organizing activities include involvements as a member of the organizing committees of the Oxford Conducting Institute International Conducting Studies Conference (St Anne's College, University of Oxford/Online, June 2021) and of the OCIICSC Conference (2018). She also served on the programme committee of the Eleventh Biennial International Conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain Conference (University of Birmingham, 2017).

    Fiona has contributed to radio documentaries and discussions on Bayerische Rundfunk Klassik; BBC Radio Ulster; RTÉ Radio 1; and RTÉ lyric fm; she also served as an adjudicator and chair for the televised UTV Choir of the Year Competition and for ISB research competitions.

    Formerly a Councillor of the Royal Musical Association (2002–05), Fiona was an elected Councillor of the Society for Musicology in Ireland for three consecutive terms (2006-15); she also served on the Development Committee of the North American British Music Studies Association (2016–18). Fiona has chaired for HETAC and participated in inter-institutional curricular discussions; she also chaired the finals of the Catherine Judge Memorial Award (2014; 2015) and acted as a juror for the ISB Research Competition (2018; 2020).

    Memberships
    International Musicological Society; North American British Music Studies Association; Royal Musical Association; Society for Musicology in Ireland

    Performing Activities

    Fiona was very lucky to be trained via the Northamptonshire Music Service from a young age and participated in multiple ensembles, recitals, international tours and residential courses.  As a first-class graduate of the Birmingham Conservatoire, with double bass as her first study, she freelanced with many ensembles, especially the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1989–1997).  During these years the CBSO enjoyed the stewardship of Sir Simon Rattle and Fiona was involved with recordings under the direction of such maestri as Walter Weller and Paarvo Jaervi; she was also a member of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (New Zealand).  

    Training and Previous Employment

    Fiona undertook her doctoral research at Birmingham University (1990–93) where she was fortunate to enjoy the mentorship of Professor Cyril Ehrlich alongside supervision from Professors Basil Deane and Colin Timms. She was Manager of the Examinations Department at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in London (1997–99). During this time she project-managed the ground-breaking Diploma 2000 Syllabus and liaised with educational agencies (such as the QCA) over benchmarking agreements. In July 1999 she moved to Northern Ireland to work at Queen's University in Belfast where she was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002. During her eight years at QUB she transformed the Performance Programme, convened the BMus degree, taught modules across the curriculum (UG and PG) and served on committees at School, University and national levels. She also regularly played the double bass on a freelance basis with the Ulster Orchestra, travelling with them to New York and to perform at the BBC's Promenade Concerts in London.  

     












































    https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781783271450/conductors-in-britain-1870-1914/

    Research Interests


    • Socio-economic history of music/the music business
    • Conducting/conductors/the conducting profession
    • Music in Britain
    • Biography (including career trajectories, image-making and influence)
    • Insitutional histories
    • Music criticism
    • Orchestras and choral societies
    • Performance practice including music publishing
    Listen to Fiona's radio broadcast—Christmas Eve RTÉ lyricfm Interval Feature—on Handel's Messiah and its continuing relevance in the 21st century [listen here (starts at 57 minutes into this broadcast link)]

    Fiona would be pleased to hear from potential students interested in the taught MA in Performance and Musicology / MA In Musicology or in pursuing MLitt, Doctoral and Postdoctoral projects related to the areas listed here.







    Books

      Year Publication
    2017 Conductors in Britain c. 1870-1914: Wielding the Baton at the Height of Empire.
    Palmer, Fiona M. (2017) Conductors in Britain c. 1870-1914: Wielding the Baton at the Height of Empire. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. [Details]
    2006 Vincent Novello (1781-1861): Music for the Masses.
    Palmer, Fiona M. (2006) Vincent Novello (1781-1861): Music for the Masses. : Ashgate Publishing. [Details]
    1997 Dragonetti in England (1794-1846): the Career of a Double Bass Virtuoso.
    Palmer, Fiona M. (1997) Dragonetti in England (1794-1846): the Career of a Double Bass Virtuoso. : Oxford University Press. [Details]
    1996 Barber Evening Concerts and Operas: the First Fifty Years.
    Palmer, Fiona M. (1996) Barber Evening Concerts and Operas: the First Fifty Years. Birmingham: Birmingham University Press. [Details]

    Peer Reviewed Journals

      Year Publication
    2021 'The Musical Conductors’ Association: Collective Podium Power in Wartime Britain?'
    Fiona M. Palmer (2021) 'The Musical Conductors’ Association: Collective Podium Power in Wartime Britain?'. Music and Letters, 102 (3):559-598 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2020 'Oxford Conducting Institute Special Issue'
    Palmer, Fiona M.; Ponchione-Bailey, Cayenna; Traill, John; co-eds; (2020) 'Oxford Conducting Institute Special Issue'. Music Performance Research, 10 (December 2020):1-85 [Details]
    2020 '‘Guest Editorial: Positioning “conducting studies” in 2020 – where are we and where can we go?’'
    Palmer, Fiona M.; Ponchione-Bailey, Cayenna; Traill, John; co-eds; (2020) '‘Guest Editorial: Positioning “conducting studies” in 2020 – where are we and where can we go?’'. Music Performance Research, 10 (December 2020):i-viii [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2005 'Publishing Music from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: the Work of Vincent Novello and Samuel Wesley in the 1820s'
    Olleson, Philip and Palmer, Fiona M., (2005) 'Publishing Music from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: the Work of Vincent Novello and Samuel Wesley in the 1820s'. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION, cxxx :38-73 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]

    Book Chapters

      Year Publication
    2019 ''Madame Stockhausen was not at Rehearsal—but why not?!: Sir George Smart's Perspective on the Dublin Grand Musical Festival of 1831''
    Fiona M. Palmer (2019) ''Madame Stockhausen was not at Rehearsal—but why not?!: Sir George Smart's Perspective on the Dublin Grand Musical Festival of 1831'' In: Kerry Houston, Maria McHale and Michael Murphy (eds). Irish Musical Studies 12: Documents of Irish History in the Long Nineteenth Century. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details]
    2018 'Cultural Demand and Supply in an Imperial Trading Centre: Developing the Liverpool Philharmonic Society Orchestra in the Mid-Nineteenth Century'
    Palmer Fiona M. (2018) 'Cultural Demand and Supply in an Imperial Trading Centre: Developing the Liverpool Philharmonic Society Orchestra in the Mid-Nineteenth Century' In: Global Perspectives on Orchestras: Collective Creativity and Social Agency. New York: Oxford University Press. [DOI] [Details]
    2016 ''Conductors and Self-Promotion in the British Nineteenth-Century Marketplace''
    Palmer Fiona M. (2016) ''Conductors and Self-Promotion in the British Nineteenth-Century Marketplace'' In: Christina Bashford and Roberta Montevorra Marvin (eds). The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World, 1800-1930. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. [full-text] [Details]
    2015 ''The Large-Scale Oratorio Chorus in Nineteenth-Century England: Choral Power and the Role of Handel’s Messiah''
    Fiona M. Palmer (2015) ''The Large-Scale Oratorio Chorus in Nineteenth-Century England: Choral Power and the Role of Handel’s Messiah'' In: Krisztina Lajosi and Andreas Stynen (eds). Choral Societies and Nationalism in Europe. Leiden: Brill. [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2014 ''Conductors and Conducting in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Liverpool Philharmonic Society (1840-1895)''
    Fiona M. Palmer (2014) ''Conductors and Conducting in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Liverpool Philharmonic Society (1840-1895)'' In: Roberto Illiano and Michela Niccolai (eds). Orchestral Conducting in the Nineteenth Century (Speculum Musicae, 23). Turnhout: Brepols. [Details]
    2012 'A Home for the 'Phil': Liverpool's First Philharmonic Hall (1849)'
    Palmer, Fiona M (2012) 'A Home for the 'Phil': Liverpool's First Philharmonic Hall (1849)' In: Paul Rodmell (eds). MUSIC AND INSTITUTIONS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN. ALDERSHOT: ASHGATE PUBLISHING LTD. [Details]
    2003 'Vincent Novello and the Philharmonic Society of London'
    Palmer, Fiona M. (2003) 'Vincent Novello and the Philharmonic Society of London' In: Peter Horton and Bennett Zon (eds). Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies III. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. [Details]
    2002 'A Halo of Light Around us All: Clementi in 1827 through the eyes of his Contemporaries'
    Fiona M. Palmer (2002) 'A Halo of Light Around us All: Clementi in 1827 through the eyes of his Contemporaries' In: R. Iliano, L. Sala and M. Sala (eds). Muzio Clementi Opera Omnia Volume 61: Muzio Clementi: Studies and Prospects. Bologna: Ut Orpheus Edizioni. [Details]
    1993 'Domenico Dragonetti and the Double Bass in London at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century'
    Fiona M. Palmer (1993) 'Domenico Dragonetti and the Double Bass in London at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century' In: A Handbook for Studies in Eighteenth Century Music, iv. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh: Burden & Cholij. [Details]

    Book Review

      Year Publication
    2021 Book Review: Peter Holman, Beyond the baton. Musical direction and conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain, Early Music.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2021) Book Review: Peter Holman, Beyond the baton. Musical direction and conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain, Early Music. Oxford: Book Review [DOI] [Details]
    2020 NABMSA Review: Hannah French. Sir Henry Wood: Champion of J.S. Bach. (Woodbridge UK: Boydell Press, 2019).
    Fiona M. Palmer (2020) NABMSA Review: Hannah French. Sir Henry Wood: Champion of J.S. Bach. (Woodbridge UK: Boydell Press, 2019). USA: Book Review [Details]
    2018 Victorian Studies Review: The Social Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music: Composers, Consumers, Communities, by Marie Sumner Lott; pp. viii + 307. Urbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2015; Rival Sisters, Art and Music at the Birth of Modernism, 1815–1915, edited by James H. Rubin with Olivia Mattis; pp. xv + 389. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2014, Victorian Studies (Summer 2018), pp. 657–60.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2018) Victorian Studies Review: The Social Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music: Composers, Consumers, Communities, by Marie Sumner Lott; pp. viii + 307. Urbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2015; Rival Sisters, Art and Music at the Birth of Modernism, 1815–1915, edited by James H. Rubin with Olivia Mattis; pp. xv + 389. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2014, Victorian Studies (Summer 2018), pp. 657–60. Victorian Studies: Book Review [DOI] [Details]
    2017 NABMSA Review: Bedford’s Musical Society: A History of Bedford’s Choral Society . Michael Benson, with an introduction by Donald Burrows. Woodbridge, UK and New York: Boydell Press, 2015. ii + 289pp. ISBN 978 - 0 - 8515 - 5081 - 7 (hardcover).
    Fiona M. Palmer (2017) NABMSA Review: Bedford’s Musical Society: A History of Bedford’s Choral Society . Michael Benson, with an introduction by Donald Burrows. Woodbridge, UK and New York: Boydell Press, 2015. ii + 289pp. ISBN 978 - 0 - 8515 - 5081 - 7 (hardcover). USA: Book Review [full-text] [Details]
    2014 NABMSA Review: 'J. Oates, Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916): A Musical Life (Farnham, Surrey; Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2013)'.
    Professor Fiona M. Palmer (2014) NABMSA Review: 'J. Oates, Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916): A Musical Life (Farnham, Surrey; Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2013)'. Book Review [full-text] [Details]
    2010 'Viotti's Chequered Life'.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2010) 'Viotti's Chequered Life'. Book Review [DOI] [Details]
    2009 Robert Beale, Charles Halle: A Musical Life (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007).
    Palmer, Fiona M. (2009) Robert Beale, Charles Halle: A Musical Life (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007). Book Review [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2002 ‘Professionally Speaking’, Rohr, D., The Careers of Professional Musicians 1750–1850 (Cambridge: CUP, 2001); Olleson, P., The Letters of Samuel Wesley: Professional and Social Correspondence 1797–1837 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001); Kassler, M. & Olleson, P. (eds), Samuel Wesley 1766–1837: A Source Book (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001).
    Fiona M. Palmer (2002) ‘Professionally Speaking’, Rohr, D., The Careers of Professional Musicians 1750–1850 (Cambridge: CUP, 2001); Olleson, P., The Letters of Samuel Wesley: Professional and Social Correspondence 1797–1837 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001); Kassler, M. & Olleson, P. (eds), Samuel Wesley 1766–1837: A Source Book (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001). Book Review [Details]
    2001 Alfred Planyavsky, The Baroque Double Bass Violone, trans. James Barket.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2001) Alfred Planyavsky, The Baroque Double Bass Violone, trans. James Barket. Book Review [Details]
    2000 ‘Paul Brun, A New History of the Double Bass (France: Paul Brun Productions, 2000)’.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2000) ‘Paul Brun, A New History of the Double Bass (France: Paul Brun Productions, 2000)’. Book Review [Details]

    Radio Presentation

      Year Publication
    2019 Why is Handel's Messiah still popular?.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2019) Why is Handel's Messiah still popular?. Limerick: Radio Presentation [Details]
    2015 Mit Holz und Seele: Millanolo Stradivarius Violin.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2015) Mit Holz und Seele: Millanolo Stradivarius Violin. Radio Presentation [Details]
    2013 'Off The Shelf' Panel Discussion presented by Andy O'Mahony with panellists John Hughes, Kevin O'Connell and Fiona M. Palmer.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2013) 'Off The Shelf' Panel Discussion presented by Andy O'Mahony with panellists John Hughes, Kevin O'Connell and Fiona M. Palmer. Radio Presentation [Details]

    Encyclopedia Entry

      Year Publication
    2018 Choral Societies: England.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2018) Choral Societies: England. Amsterdam: Encyclopedia Entry [Details]

    Dictionary Entry

      Year Publication
    2013 'Novello Family'.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2013) 'Novello Family'. Dictionary Entry [Details]
    2013 ’Novello, (Francis) Vincent’, in Watson, J. R. et al (eds), A New Dictionary of Hymnology (London: Canterbury Press/Michigan: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2013).
    Fiona M. Palmer (2013) ’Novello, (Francis) Vincent’, in Watson, J. R. et al (eds), A New Dictionary of Hymnology (London: Canterbury Press/Michigan: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2013). Dictionary Entry [Details]
    2007 'Novello, family'.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2007) 'Novello, family'. Dictionary Entry [Details]
    2004 • ‘Barthélémon, Francois Hippolite (1741–1808)’; • ‘Cervetto, Giacobbe (1682–1783)’; • ‘Clagget, Charles (1740–1820)’; • ‘Condell, Henry (1757–1824)’; • ‘Crosdill, John (1751–1825)’; • ‘Dragonetti, Domenico (1763–1846)’; • ‘Paxton, Stephen (1735–87)’; • ‘Piatti, Alfredo (1822–1901)’ in Harrison, B. (ed.), New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) (commissioned) www.oxforddnb.com .
    Fiona M. Palmer (2004) • ‘Barthélémon, Francois Hippolite (1741–1808)’; • ‘Cervetto, Giacobbe (1682–1783)’; • ‘Clagget, Charles (1740–1820)’; • ‘Condell, Henry (1757–1824)’; • ‘Crosdill, John (1751–1825)’; • ‘Dragonetti, Domenico (1763–1846)’; • ‘Paxton, Stephen (1735–87)’; • ‘Piatti, Alfredo (1822–1901)’ in Harrison, B. (ed.), New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) (commissioned) www.oxforddnb.com . Dictionary Entry [Details]
    2001 ‘Dragonetti, Domenico’, in Sadie, S. (ed.), New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition, 29 vols (London: Macmillan, 2001) vii, 593–4 (commissioned: completely new article) .
    Fiona M. Palmer (2001) ‘Dragonetti, Domenico’, in Sadie, S. (ed.), New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition, 29 vols (London: Macmillan, 2001) vii, 593–4 (commissioned: completely new article) . Dictionary Entry [Details]

    Conference Contributions

      Year Publication
    2022 ‘Unpacking the Maestro Myth: Bugs Bunny, Clerical Garb, and a Walrus Moustache…’ .
    Fiona M. Palmer (2022) ‘Unpacking the Maestro Myth: Bugs Bunny, Clerical Garb, and a Walrus Moustache…’ . [Invited Oral Presentation], Maynooth University Music Department Research Seminar, Maynooth University , 09-NOV-22 - 09-DEC-22 [Details]
    2021 '‘The old custom of chance will no longer do; let us have intelligently taught conductors’: Contextualizing Conductor Training in Britain (1890s–1920s)'.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2021) '‘The old custom of chance will no longer do; let us have intelligently taught conductors’: Contextualizing Conductor Training in Britain (1890s–1920s)'. [Oral Presentation], Oxford Conducting Institute International Conducting Studies Conference, Online , 25-JUN-21 - 26-JUN-21 [Details]
    2019 'Collective Podium Power: Protecting British Conductors During and After World War I'.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2019) 'Collective Podium Power: Protecting British Conductors During and After World War I'. [Oral Presentation], Royal Musical Association 55th Annual Conference, Royal Northern College of Music and University of Manchester , 11-SEP-19 - 13-SEP-19 [Details]
    2019 Consolidating the Position of British Conductors in 1916: Issues of Identity and Influence in the Musical Conductors’ Association.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2019) Consolidating the Position of British Conductors in 1916: Issues of Identity and Influence in the Musical Conductors’ Association. [Oral Presentation], 'Agency and Identity in Music', International Musicological Society Intercongressional Symposium, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland , 07-JUL-19 - 10-JUL-19 [Details]
    2019 ‘Consolidating the Position of British Conductors’: Issues of Identity and Influence in the Musical Conductors’ Association (1916)'.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2019) ‘Consolidating the Position of British Conductors’: Issues of Identity and Influence in the Musical Conductors’ Association (1916)'. [Oral Presentation], 17th Annual Plenary Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Maynooth University , 28-JUN-19 - 30-JUN-19 [Details]
    2018 ’Dan Godfrey Junior and Bournemouth’s Municipal Orchestra before 1914’.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2018) ’Dan Godfrey Junior and Bournemouth’s Municipal Orchestra before 1914’. [Oral Presentation], Inside, Outside, and in Between: Institutionalization in Music History. The Fifth Sibelius Academy Symposium in Music History, Helsinki, Finland , 06-JUN-18 - 08-JUN-18 [Details]
    2018 ‘Defining the Conductor’s Job Description in Britain before 1914: Dan Godfrey Junior and Bournemouth’s Municipal Orchestra’.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2018) ‘Defining the Conductor’s Job Description in Britain before 1914: Dan Godfrey Junior and Bournemouth’s Municipal Orchestra’. [Oral Presentation], Oxford Conducting Institute International Conducting Studies Conference, St Anne's College, University of Oxford , 21-JUN-18 - 23-JUN-18 [Details]
    2017 ‘Resisting Foreign Invasion: World War I and the Campaign for the British Conducting Profession’.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2017) ‘Resisting Foreign Invasion: World War I and the Campaign for the British Conducting Profession’. [Oral Presentation], World War I and Music: 13th International Musicological Conference of the Croatian Musicological Society, Zagreb, Croatia , 24-OCT-17 - 27-OCT-17 [Details]
    2017 ‘Every musician (or rather soi-disant musician) … thinks he can conduct’: Reinterpreting Ideologies of Orchestral Conducting in 1870s Britain’.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2017) ‘Every musician (or rather soi-disant musician) … thinks he can conduct’: Reinterpreting Ideologies of Orchestral Conducting in 1870s Britain’. [Oral Presentation], Royal Musical Association 53rd Annual Conference, Liverpool University , 07-SEP-17 - 09-SEP-17 [Details]
    2017 'Forging a Conducting Profile in Britain before World War I: Landon Ronald and the Birmingham Promenade Concerts (1905–14)'.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2017) 'Forging a Conducting Profile in Britain before World War I: Landon Ronald and the Birmingham Promenade Concerts (1905–14)'. [Oral Presentation], Eleventh Biennial International Conference on Music in 19th-Century Britain, University of Birmingham , 28-JUN-17 - 30-JUN-17 [Details]
    2016 ‘Hundreds of people are unable to differentiate between a man who wags a stick and the artist who inspires and controls’: Concepts of Conducting in Britain in 1913’.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2016) ‘Hundreds of people are unable to differentiate between a man who wags a stick and the artist who inspires and controls’: Concepts of Conducting in Britain in 1913’. [Oral Presentation], SMI Plenary Conference, St Patrick's College, DCU , 10-JUN-16 - 12-JUN-16 [Details]
    2016 ‘Hundreds of people are unable to differentiate between a man who wags a stick and the artist who inspires and controls’: Concepts of Conducting in Britain in 1913’.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2016) ‘Hundreds of people are unable to differentiate between a man who wags a stick and the artist who inspires and controls’: Concepts of Conducting in Britain in 1913’. [Oral Presentation], Oxford Conducting Institute Conducting Conference, St Anne's College, Oxford Unversity , 24-JUN-16 - 26-JUN-16 [Details]
    2016 ‘‘I am your leader, and you must follow me’: Sir Joseph Barnby as Conductor of the Royal Choral Society (1872–1896)’.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2016) ‘‘I am your leader, and you must follow me’: Sir Joseph Barnby as Conductor of the Royal Choral Society (1872–1896)’. [Oral Presentation], North American British Music Studies Association Biennial Conference, Syracuse University, New York , 04-AUG-16 - 06-AUG-16 [Details]
    2015 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic: 175 Years of the Original Liverpool Sound.
    (2015) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic: 175 Years of the Original Liverpool Sound. [Oral Presentation], Philharmonic Societies:Celebrating 175 Years of the Original Liverpool Sound, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, William Brown Library, Liverpool [Details]
    2014 CMPCP Workshop: Prof. T.K. Ramnarine.
    (2014) CMPCP Workshop: Prof. T.K. Ramnarine. [Oral Presentation], 'Liverpool Philharmonic - Causes and Effects - Central Themes', University of London: Senate House [Details]
    2013 Performance Studies Network Second International Conference.
    (2013) Performance Studies Network Second International Conference. [Oral Presentation], ‘Developing the Liverpool Philharmonic Society Orchestra in the mid-19th century', University of Cambridge [Details]
    2013 Eighth Biennial International Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain Conference.
    (2013) Eighth Biennial International Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain Conference. [Oral Presentation], ‘I cannot do Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel with deputies’, University of Cardiff [Details]
    2012 Plenary Conference of the Society for Musicology Ireland.
    (2012) Plenary Conference of the Society for Musicology Ireland. [Oral Presentation], ‘Sir Julius Benedict (1804-1885): Reinterpreting the Conducting Career of a Naturalised Englishman', Dundalk Institute of Technology [Details]
    2012 Seventeenth Biennial International Conference on 19th-Century Music.
    (2012) Seventeenth Biennial International Conference on 19th-Century Music. [Oral Presentation], ‘Sir Julius Benedict (1804-1885): Reinterpreting the Conducting Career of a Naturalised Englishman', University of Edinburgh [Details]
    2011 SPIN.
    (2011) SPIN. [Oral Presentation], ‘Choral Societies in England and nationalist Mobilization in Nineteenth Century Europe’, SPIN/De Singel Antwerp [Details]
    2011 La Spezia CAMEC.
    (2011) La Spezia CAMEC. [Public presentations], ‘Conductors and Conducting in 19th-Century Britain: The Liverpool Philharmonic Society as Case Study, Italy - La Spezia [Details]
    2011 The Orchestra in Global Perspective Workshop III, AHRC Centre for Musical Performance.
    (2011) The Orchestra in Global Perspective Workshop III, AHRC Centre for Musical Performance. [Oral Presentation], ‘Infrastructures and Personnel: Case Studies in the Evolution of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, Institute of Musical Research London [Details]
    2011 RCM Grove Forum.
    (2011) RCM Grove Forum. [Oral Presentation], 'Music for the Masses', Royal College of Music London [Details]
    2010 Musicology Research Seminar Series.
    (2010) Musicology Research Seminar Series. [Oral Presentation], ‘”His Beat Is Clear and Decisive”: Max Bruch as Conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society', Liverpool Hope University [Details]
    2010 NUI Maynooth Music Department Research Seminar.
    (2010) NUI Maynooth Music Department Research Seminar. [Oral Presentation], 'Orchestral Direction in the Nineteenth Century: Pioneers on the Podium', NUI Maynooth [Details]
    2010 Global Perspectives on the Orchestra: Workshop I: the Symphony Orchestra.
    (2010) Global Perspectives on the Orchestra: Workshop I: the Symphony Orchestra. [Oral Presentation], Making an Orchestra Work: Perspectives from the Nineteenth Century, AHRC Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice, Institute of Musical Research, London Univ [Details]
    2010 Fourth Biennial Conference of the North American British Musical Studies Association.
    (2010) Fourth Biennial Conference of the North American British Musical Studies Association. [Oral Presentation], His Beat Is Clear and Decisive”: Max Bruch as Conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society in the, Des Moines, Iowa USA [Details]
    2010 The Symphony Orchestra as Cultural Phenomenon.
    (2010) The Symphony Orchestra as Cultural Phenomenon. [Oral Presentation], Defining the Job Description: Case Studies in English Orchestral Conducting in the mid-1800s, Institute of Musical Research, University of London [Details]
    2009 History Department Research Seminar Series.
    (2009) History Department Research Seminar Series. [Oral Presentation], Making it in the 19th-century Music Profession: The Contrasting Careers of Dragonetti...marketplace, NUI Maynooth [Details]
    2009 Joint Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association and Society for Musicology Ireland.
    (2009) Joint Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association and Society for Musicology Ireland. [Oral Presentation], Finding Direction: Hierarchies in the Early Years of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, RIAM, Dublin [Details]
    2009 7th Biennial Conference on Music in 19th-Century Britain.
    (2009) 7th Biennial Conference on Music in 19th-Century Britain. [Oral Presentation], Finding Direction: Hierarchies in the Early Years of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, Bristol University [Details]
    2007 Music Department Research Seminar Series.
    (2007) Music Department Research Seminar Series. [Oral Presentation], Vincent Novello’s Circle: Figures and Functions, NUI Maynooth [Details]
    2007 SMI Annual Conference.
    (2007) SMI Annual Conference. [Oral Presentation], A Home for the Phil: The Unveiling of Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall in 1849, Waterford Institute of Technology [Details]
    2007 6th Biennial Conference on Music in 19th-Century Britain.
    (2007) 6th Biennial Conference on Music in 19th-Century Britain. [Oral Presentation], A Home for the Phil: The Unveiling of Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall in 1849, Birmingham University [Details]
    2006 Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
    (2006) Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies. [Oral Presentation], Vincent Novello’s Circle: Figures and Functions, Queen's University Belfast [Details]
    2005 5th Biennial International Conference on Music in 19th-Century Britain.
    (2005) 5th Biennial International Conference on Music in 19th-Century Britain. [Oral Presentation], Patterns in Vincent Novello’s Editorial Output 1811–32: Quantity v. Quality?, University of Nottingham [Details]
    2005 SMI Annual Conference.
    (2005) SMI Annual Conference. [Oral Presentation], Vincent Novello and “This Extraordinary Genius”: Henry Purcell, University College Cork [Details]
    2004 SMI Annual Conference.
    (2004) SMI Annual Conference. [Oral Presentation], Vincent and Mary Novello: Family Ties, Values and Quarrels, Queen's University Belfast [Details]

    Magazine Article

      Year Publication
    2005 The Dragon of Leicester Square.
    Fiona M. Palmer (2005) The Dragon of Leicester Square. Magazine Article [Details]

    Thesis

      Year Publication
    1994 Domenico Dragonetti in England 1763-1846: the Career of a Double Bass Virtuoso.
    Fiona M. Palmer (1994) Domenico Dragonetti in England 1763-1846: the Career of a Double Bass Virtuoso. Birmingham: Thesis [Details]