Carrie Churnside

Associate Professor in Music & Research Degrees Coordinator

Email:: carrie.churnside@bcu.ac.uk

Carrie Churnside is听Associate Professor in Music and Research Degrees Coordinator. She is also Director of the Forum for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Music,听and leads Royal Birmingham Conservatoire鈥檚 Athena Swan Self-Assessment Team.

Carrie听specialises in Italian Baroque music, particularly听vocal music, including听the genre of the cantata.

After graduating from the University of Birmingham with a BA (First Class) in English and Music in 2002, she went on to complete an MPhil on cantatas by Giovanni Paolo Colonna ('Colonna's Cantatas for the Medici: A Study of GB-Lbm Add. MS 27931') and a PhD on Bolognese volumes of cantate morali e spirituali ('A Study of Sacred Cantatas Printed in Bologna 1659-1717').

Prior to joining the staff of听Royal Birmingham听Conservatoire in 2010 she held a Rome Fellowship at the 听(2008-9), studying Roman seventeenth-century sacred cantatas.

Carrie's research centres on Italian seventeenth听and early-eighteenth-century听vocal music, in particular the relationship between text and music, and its historical and social听contexts. She has presented at various international conferences throughout Europe. Publications include the edited collection Transitions in Mid-Baroque Music: Style, Genre and Performance (Boydell, 2024) as well as work on听the relationship between composer and librettist in early eighteenth-century oratorio, Bolognese听cantatas referencing the听Ottoman wars, and music printing and publishing in Bologna at the beginning of the eighteenth century. She is also a member of the Council of the , and has written programme notes for the Salzburg Festival and the BBC Proms.

Current projects include a journal article examining patronage and the dedication of music through a case study of Count Pirro Albergati鈥檚 relationships with the Imperial Court c. 1700, based on documents in the Albergati archive, and听an edition of听Muzio Scevola听(HWV 13), an opera by Filippo Amadei, Giovanni Bononcini and George Frideric Handel, for the Hallische H盲ndel-Ausgabe.

She teaches on a number of modules for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses, on subjects including performance practice, critical editing, music and gender and music and philosophy, as well as supervising research students.

Current Activity

Areas of Expertise

Qualifications

Teaching

Research

Publications

鈥楾he Italian Influence鈥�, in An English Baroque Journey, ed. by Kirsten Gibson and Sir Nicholas Kenyon [4,000-word chapter in companion book to Arcangelo鈥檚 An English Baroque Journey concert series at the Wigmore Hall, 2026鈥�2028; at press]

Transitions in Mid-Baroque Music: Style, Genre and Performance, ed. C. Churnside (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2024). Including Preface (pp. xxii鈥搙xvii) and chapter: 鈥楬o procurato di seguitare ... i tre maggiori lumi della nostra professione鈥�. Homage and Modernity in Perti鈥檚 Cantate morali e spirituali, op. 1 (1688)鈥�, pp. 272鈥�298.

鈥楳usical Discourse in Italy 1500-1800鈥� in听Cambridge History of Music Criticism, ed. by Christopher Dingle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 42-61.

鈥樷€淪'oda in Ciel sempr'ecchegiare: Viva pur Felsina viva!鈥�: Patriotism in Bolognese Oratorios鈥� in听Dramma scolastico ed oratorio nell'et脿 barocca, ed. by Nicol貌 Maccavino (Reggio Calabria: Edizioni del Conservatorio di Musica 鈥淔. Cilea鈥�, 2019):听

鈥�鈥�,听Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, 20 (1) (2014/2017)

'Text-Music Relations in the Early Settecento: The Case of听Il Trionfo della Carit脿',听Ars Lyrica听21 (2012), 1-16.

'Music printing in early eighteenth-century Bologna: the case of Giuseppe Antonio Silvani and Pirro Albergati (1716-1717)',听Fonti musicali italiane听17 (2012), 105-134.

'Colonna's Cantatas for Modena and Florence: Art and Music Combined' in听La cantata da camera intorno agli anni italiani di H盲ndel: problemi e prospettive di ricerca, ed. Teresa M. Gialdroni (Rome: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, 2009), 129-152

'',听British Postgraduate Musicology, 8 (2006)

Reviews

Review of听The Italian Cantata in Vienna: Entertainment in the Age of Absolutism听by Lawrence Bennett in听Music and Letters, 96 (2015), 277-8.

'A Wealth of Cantatas',听Early Music听42 (2014), 133-6.

Review of Rosanna Scalfi Marcello,听Twelve Cantatas for Alto Voice and Basso Continuo, ed. Deborah Haynes and John Glenn Paton,听Eighteenth-Century Music听10 (2013), pp. 299-301.

Review of concert performance of Agostino Steffani's听Orlando generoso听at the Barber Institute (September 2012) in听17th-Century Music, Newsletter of the SSCM, Spring 2013.

Review of Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni,听The Cantatas for Soprano and Basso Continuo in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, ed. Michael Talbot,听Eighteenth-Century Music听8 (2011), 133-5.

Review of听Bolognese Instrumental Music, 1660-1710听by Gregory Barnett,听Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association听66 (2009), 301-3.

Sleeve-notes for Academia Montis Regalis's recording of Alessandro Scarlatti's听Davidis pugna et Victoria听(Hyperion records; October 2009).

'Seicento Naples',听Early Music听37 (2009), 118-9.

'Italian Handel Conferences',听The Handel Institute Newsletter听19 (2008), 5.

'Ghizzolo and Gagliano',听Early Music听35 (2007), 648-649.

Conference Papers

鈥極 Padre Tevere!鈥�: The Figure of Orazio in Muzio Scevola (1721), Twenty-first Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, Birmingham, July 2025; revised for Handel Institute Conference, London, November 2025

鈥楬o procurato di seguitare ... i tre maggiori lumi della nostra professione鈥�: Homage and Modernity in Perti鈥�s Cantate morali e spirituali, op. 1 (1688), Twentieth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, Geneva, June 2023

鈥楬andel 鈥渆asily triumphed over the others鈥�: The Third Act of the Composite Opera Muzio Scevola (1721) by Amadei, Bononcini and Handel, L鈥檜ltimo Atto nell鈥檕pera del Settecento, Conservatorio di Musica Francesco Cilea, Reggio Calabria (online), October 2021 (invited paper).

鈥榃hen the Composer is also a Count: Patronage and Power Relationships in the Case of Pirro Albergati鈥�. Music Patronage in Italy from the 15^th to the 18^th Century, Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca, November 2019; Nineteenth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, July 2021.

鈥�Muzio Scevola: Amadei, Bononcini and Handel鈥檚 Responses鈥�. Eighteenth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, Cremona, July 2018.

鈥極pera in Bologna at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century: Papers from the Albergati Archive鈥�. Twenty-third annual conference of the Societ脿 Italiana di Musicologia, Verona, October 2014.

鈥�Che Roma viva di sensi priva 猫 vano pensier: Depictions of the Senses in mid-Seicento Roman Sacred Song鈥�. Sixteenth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, Salzburg, July 2014.

'Reflections on Working on Italian Music Printing in the Early Eighteenth Century: The Case of Giuseppe Antonio Silvani'. Music Printing and Publishing in Early Modern Italy: New Approaches. Venice, February 2014 [invited paper].

'"O Reno, o Reno, o fortunato fiume": Patriotism in Early Settecento Bolognese Oratorios. Dramma scolastico ed oratorio nell'et脿 barocca. Reggio Calabria, October 2012.

'Musical Patronage in Bologna at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century: Papers from the Albergati Archive'. Fifteenth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, Southampton, July 2012.

'Text-Music Relations in Early Settecento Oratorio: The Case of听Il trionfo della carit脿'. Eighteenth annual conference of the Societ脿 Italiana di Musicologia, Genoa, October 2011.

'The war in words: the Ottoman conflict depicted in Bolognese cantatas'. Fourteenth Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, Belfast, July 2010.

(with Giulia Giovani) 'The Bolognese music printing firm of Silvani as revealed by archival documents'. European Sacred Music 1500-1800: New Approaches, Fribourg, Switzerland, June 2010.

'"Che Roma viva de' sensi priva 猫 vano pensier": The Seventeenth-Century Sacred Cantata in the Papal States'. Public lecture delivered at the British School at Rome, June 2009.

'Colonna's Cantatas for Florence and Modena: Art and Music Combined', RMA Annual Conference, Aberdeen July 2008; Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia's conference 'La cantata negli anni italiani di H盲ndel', Rome, October 2007.

'A Poetic Approach to Bolognese Sacred Cantatas'. Thirteenth Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, Leeds, July 2008.

Theses

'A Study of Sacred Cantatas Printed in Bologna (1659-1717)' (PhD, Birmingham, 2008)

'Colonna's Cantatas for the Medici: A Study of GB-Lbm Add. MS 27931' (MPhil, Birmingham, 2004).

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