Public Engagement

‘On Arne Nordheim’s film music for Stella Polaris (1993)’, invited panellist as part of the Arne Nordheim festival, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, 6 February 2020.
‘The usage of voice in Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963)’, VOeX (Various Operatic eXperiments) festival, invited speaker and panel chair, The Norwegian National Opera, 27-29/5 2019.
Radikal Operaregi?, discussion panel with Per Boye Hansen and others, arranged by Norsk kritikerlag, Litteraturhuset (Oslo), 29 September 2016. Summary here: http://kritikerlaget.no/saker/referat-radikal-operaregi‘
Is changing the music in an opera allowed?’, on The Magic Flute, in discussion with David Levin, Per Boye Hansen, Ståle Wikshåland, and audience members, The Norwegian National Opera, 24 October 2015
‘Film Music and Spectator Engagement’, Filmens Hus, Oslo, ‘The Sound of Movies’, 3-4 October 2015
‘Film music’, interview, Norwegian National Radio (NRK), on the programmes ‘Norgesglasset’ and ‘Brunsj’, 12 May and 15 May, 2015
‘Danish music and modernism’s legacies’, talk for the Nielsen Study Day, IMR/Oxford Symposium, TheBarbican, London, 11 October 2014
‘Music and morality in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel‘, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, pre-performance talks, 25 July and 1 August 2010