Research and Writing
Elisabeth is an artistic researcher active in the areas of brass instruments, gender, embodiment, and education.
Check back here for news regarding upcoming projects and publications.
Embodiment and Empowerment
Elisabeth’s research, “Embodiment and Empowerment,” investigates activity at the intersection of gender performance and trumpet performance. The approach to this topic combines new organology, critical sociology, and practice-based artistic research with the aim of uncovering different ways of understanding musical communication in trumpet music.
The research has been generously supported by Studio LOOS and Gemeente Den Haag.
eavesdropping symposium 2021
Elisabeth was selected as a presenter for the eavesdropping festival’s 2021 symposium. The theme of the festival was “The Sounding Body: Site of Trouble and Transcendence.” Elisabeth presented a version of her research project “EMBODIMENT and EMPOWERMENT” with a special focus on the breath as a radical act.
This project occurred in conjunction with a research residency at Studio LOOS in The Hague.
The video can be viewed here, and full text of the presentation and bibliography can be found here.
For more information about eavesdropping, please visit the official website.
Global Breath
Elisabeth is currently working as a writer for the Global Breath Project - a research and concert project by Marco Blaauw delving into what it means to play the trumpet. The project will host it’s inaugural festival in Essen in March of 2021.
For more information about Global Breath, check out the website.
Global Breath is supported by Kunst Stiftung NRW and Societe Gavignies.
For the inaugural December 2020 issue of the Nevis Ensemble’s magazine Nevis News, Elisabeth contributed an article titled “What Happens After COVID?” and participated in a published dialogue on diversity and inclusion in classical music with Ankna Krockiam (Nevis Ensemble Trustee), Uchenna Ngwe (researcher and performer), and Jamie Munn (Nevis Chief Executive).
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Elisabeth addressing the Northwestern University Class of 2017 as the Honor’s Ceremony 2017 Keynote Speaker.
Read a copy of the text here.
Masters Research Presentation “Embodiment and Empowerment: Karlheinz Stockhausen’s ORCHESTER-FINALISTEN”
Elisabeth’s project, "Embodiment and Empowerment: Karlheinz Stockhausen's 'ORCHESTER-FINALISTEN'" is a research into the preparation and performance of Stockhausen's "ORCHESTER-FINALISTEN" from "MITTWOCH aus LICHT." This project identifies specific links between music and physicality and creates a toolkit for performers to become more aware of and confident in their bodies on stage. Through interviews, rehearsal observation, and personal experience, this project investigates how preparing and performing "ORCHESTER-FINALISTEN" can open the relationship between music and musician and allow the physical body to become a powerful and vital part of performance.
Contact Elisabeth for more information on her research.
Stockhausen Courses Kürten
For the 2019 courses, Elisabeth was invited to give a lecture on the recently-concluded Masters aus LICHT program and the “aus LICHT” production. In this presentation, Elisabeth discusses the value of an education in the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen and her masters research “Embodiment and Empowerment.”