Services
Talks & Lectures
Arguments about music, migration and wellbeing that arrive with the music that produced them, usually played live, in the room.
Talks and lectures drawn from a practice rather than a reading list. The material comes out of composing, performing and running workshops, which means the arguments arrive with the music that produced them, usually played live in the room.
The work is delivered to universities, conferences, cultural organisations and professional networks, as a single keynote, a guest lecture inside an existing module, or a longer research collaboration.
Suitability
Who this is for
- University music, ethnomusicology and cultural studies departments
- Conferences and symposia in music, migration or health and wellbeing
- Arts organisations and funders developing participation strategy
- Health, education and social-care networks exploring arts and wellbeing
- Festivals and venues programming talks alongside performance
- Research teams looking for a practitioner partner on a bid
Scope
Subjects covered
- Music and migration, what travels, what is rebuilt, what is lost
- Afro-jazz as a living meeting of traditions, not a fusion label
- Rhythm, improvisation and wellbeing: what happens when people play together
- Cultural exchange done well, and how it goes wrong
- Building a creative practice across performance, teaching and research
- Practice-based research methods for artists and academic partners
Process
How a booking works
No stage is a surprise, and nothing starts before it is agreed in writing.
- 01
The audience
Who is in the room, what they already know, and what the session sits next to in the programme.
- 02
The shape
Keynote, lecture, lecture-recital or panel contribution, with or without live music, though it is usually better with.
- 03
Preparation
Material tailored to your audience, plus any abstract, biography and technical requirements your programme needs.
- 04
Delivery
The session itself, with time protected for questions, the part that most often produces the next collaboration.
- 05
Afterwards
Slides, reading and listening lists made available where useful, and a conversation about anything worth taking further.
Benefits
Why book this talk
Practitioner, not commentator
The claims are grounded in work actually made and workshops actually run.
Music in the room
Points are demonstrated by playing them, which lands differently from a slide.
Genuinely cross-disciplinary
Comfortable in front of music departments, health networks and arts strategists alike.
Open to collaboration
Available as a practitioner partner on research bids and funded projects.
Practical detail
Formats, timings and terms
The answers to the questions that decide whether this fits your diary and your budget.
- Formats
- Keynote, guest lecture, lecture-recital, panel or seminar series
- Length
- 45 minutes to a full day; series by arrangement
- Where
- In person UK-wide, internationally by arrangement, or online
- Audience
- Student cohorts, academic conferences, professional networks, public audiences
- Collaboration
- Available as a named practitioner partner on funding bids
FAQs
Talks & Lectures, your questions
Specific to this service. General questions about booking, fees and logistics are answered on the FAQs page.
Yes, and that is the norm. Send the theme, the audience and what the session sits alongside, and the material will be shaped to it rather than delivered off the shelf.
Also relevant
Often booked alongside this
Workshops
Rhythm, ensemble playing and collaborative creative practice for schools, organisations and community groups, no experience needed.
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Masterclasses
One-to-one and small-group teaching in composition, improvisation and Afro-jazz language, taught from practice, not theory alone.
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Invite a talk
Send your theme, audience and dates. You will get a proposed shape for the session and a fee, along with an abstract and biography for your programme.