Conference Papers Given

Making it Mine: Interpretation and Improvisation in the Performance of ‘El Bodeguero’ (The Grocer)

21/11/2009 Latin American Music Seminar day, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Russell Square, London

16/12/2009 University of Leeds, School of Music

The Thieving Magpie: Musical Borrowings, Quotes and Signifiers in Cuban Charanga Improvisation

17/04/2009: Forum for Ethnomusicology, Liverpool Hope University

10/09/2008: Leeds University ‘Locating  Popular Cultures’ Conference

22/11/2008: Centre for Latin American Studies, London

¿El Danzón Inglès?

01/04/2009: International Festival and Conference on Danzón, Havana: one hour lecture in Spanish on my research into Cuban flute improvisation and on Charanga del Norte

A Journey Into Stylistic Improvisation: A Demonstration of Practice as Research

09/01/2009:  RMA Research Students’ Conference, Kings College, London

16/12/2008: School of Music, Leeds University

Cha Cha Charanga: An Appreciation of Orquesta Aragón

07/02/2007 and 16/05/2007: School of Music and School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Leeds University

07/06/2007: Huddersfield University

The Cuban Charanga

21 and 22/02/2007: Instituto Cervantes in Leeds and Manchester  – lectures accompanying Charanga del Norte performances.

Cubanising Beethoven’s Fifth: An Analysis of ‘Quinta Guajira’ by Orquesta Broadway and ‘Voy hablar con tu papá’ by Orquesta Aragón.

21/11/06 SMLC Popular Music Research Forum, Leeds University

The Performer as Researcher: On-going Research into the Cuban Charanga Flute style: A Report

13/12/06: School of Music, Leeds University

02/07/06  Royal Northern College of Music as part of the Palantine Research conference

Springboards and Trampolines: An Analysis of Two Flute Solos by Richard Egües from Orquesta Aragón

07/12/2005: School of Music, Leeds University