Handel Awards and Conferences

HANDEL INSTITUTE RESEARCH AWARDS

Applications are invited for Handel Institute Research Awards in support of research into the music or life of George Frideric Handel or his associates or contemporaries. One or more awards may be offered, up to a total of £1,000. Awards will not be made for the payment of university or college fees.

There is no application form. Applicants should submit an outline of their project, a breakdown of their estimated expenditure, and a note of any other funding (for the same project) applied for or received; they should also ask two referees to write on their behalf (references will not be solicited). Applications and references must reach Professor Colin Timms (c.r.timms@bham.ac.uk) by 31 December 2014.

All applicants will be contacted as soon as possible thereafter. Any materials such as microfilms that are bought with an award will become the property of the Handel Institute when the applicant has finished using them.

HANDEL INSTITUTE CONFERENCE AWARDS

Applications are invited for Handel Institute Conference Awards. These new awards, which are available for a trial period, are intended for individuals who wish to attend an overseas conference in order to read a paper on Handel (or on a Handel-related subject) that has already been accepted by the conference organisers.

The awards are open to UK residents who wish to attend a conference elsewhere and to overseas residents who wish to attend one in the UK. Awards will relate to the cost of travel and/or accommodation, and applications must be submitted before expenditure is incurred. Preference will be given to applicants who are postgraduate students or early-career academics.

Applications should include the following information:

• name, email address and institutional affiliation (if any) of the applicant;
• details of the conference: title, organising body, place, date(s);
• title and abstract of the paper to be delivered (not more than 300 words);
• evidence that the paper has been accepted by the conference organisers;
• details of travel and/or accommodation costs (based on cheapest reasonable estimates);
• details of any financial assistance (for this purpose) already received;
• details of any outstanding applications for such financial assistance.

There is no deadline for applications, which should be sent to Professor Colin Timms (c.r.timms@bham.ac.uk).

HANDEL INSTITUTE CONFERENCE

21-22 November 2015, Foundling Museum, London
Handel and His Eighteenth-Century Performers

Proposals of up to 300 words for papers lasting up to thirty minutes should be sent to Professor Colin Timms (c.r.timms@bham.ac.uk) by 1 May 2015.

SOCIETY FOR SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC AND THE AMERICAN HANDEL SOCIETY

The Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music and the Biennial Conference of the American Handel Society will be hosted jointly this year by the School of Music at the University of Iowa, 23–26 April, 2015.

See: http://sscm-sscm.org/meetings-conferences/annual-conference/

DARIA VAN DEN BERCKEN: WHY I TAKE THE PIANO ON THE ROAD … AND IN THE AIR

"Pianist Daria van den Bercken fell in love with the baroque keyboard music of George Frideric Handel. Now, she aims to ignite this passion in others. In this talk, she plays us through the emotional roller coaster of his music — while sailing with her piano through the air, driving it down the street, and of course playing on the stage."