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Michael Christoforidis

Associate Professor In Music (Musicology)
Manuel de Falla
Stravinsky
Carmen
Popular music and entertainment
Picasso
Nationalism
Neoclassicism
Ballets Russes
music
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Michael Christoforidis

 
Division
Fine Arts And Music
 
Primary Interest
Exoticism In Music
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A/Prof

Michael Christoforidis

 

b. Melbourne, Australia. Completed his PhD on aspects of the creative process in Manuel de Falla’s Neoclassical music.

He has been a research associate at the Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales (Madrid) and at the Archivo Manuel de Falla (Granada), where he was responsible for classifying the composer’s annotations to his library. He has published extensively on aspects of 20th-century Hispanic music and is currently completing a monograph on Spanish music in Belle-Epoque Paris. His next major research project examines Bizet's Carmen, Spain and the emergence of popular culture. Other research interests include the music of Igor Stravinsky and Percy Grainger.

Projects

Displaying the 2 most recent projects by Michael Christoforidis.

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Negotiating Exoticism, Nationalism & Modernity: Constructions Of Hispanic Music In Belle-Epoque Paris

Hispanic music and its evocation in French espagnolades fascinated nineteenth-century Paris. Between 1900 and 1914 this culminated in a prol..

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Visiting Scholar Awards

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Projects

Project Types

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Internal Research Grant

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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 48 most recent scholarly works by Michael Christoforidis.

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Serenading Spanish Students on the Streets of Paris: The International Projection of Estudiantinas in the 1870s

Michael Christoforidis

Journal article  |  2018  |  Nineteenth-Century Music Review

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Carmen and the Staging of Spain: Recasting Bizet's Opera in the Belle Epoque

Michael Christoforidis, Elizabeth Jane Kertesz

Book  |  2018

Carmen and the Staging of Spain explores the Belle Époque fascination with Spanish entertainment that refashioned Bizet's opera an..

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Manuel de Falla and visions of spanish music

M Christoforidis

Book  |  2017

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La estética tardía de Les Ballets Russes y la transformación de El amor brujo en la versión de León Woizikovsky y Natalia Goncharova (1935)

M Christoforidis

Book Chapter  |  2017

In 1935 Les Ballets de Léon Woizikovsky staged El amor brujo with costumes and sets by Natalia Goncharova. The production was the ..

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Instrument of Change: Visions of the Guitar in the Early 20th Century

M Christoforidis, K Murray

Curated Exhibition, Event or Festival  |  2017

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Mediterranean Encounter: Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky and the Étude for Pianola (1917)

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Book Chapter  |  2016

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Enrique Granados: Barcelona and Beyond - Commemorating Enrique Granados (1867-1916)

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Curated Exhibition, Event or Festival  |  2016

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Introduction to Fernando Sor: Cendrillon

M CHRISTOFORIDIS, E Kertesz

Book Chapter  |  2016

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Plink-a-plong: The Belle Epoque Guitar and Percy Grainger

M CHRISTOFORIDIS, K Murray

Curated Exhibition, Event or Festival  |  2016

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The Hispanic Grainger: Encounters with the Modern Spanish School

Michael Christoforidis, Ken Murray

Book Chapter  |  2015

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Goya and Spanish Musics

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Curated Exhibition, Event or Festival  |  2015

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Early Music Revivals and their Neoclassical Echoes (1870-1970)

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Curated Exhibition, Event or Festival  |  2014

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Manuel de Falla

M Christoforidis

Scholarly edition  |  2013

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Reimagining the Reconquista: Massenet's Le Cid and the 1900 Exposition Universelle

M CHRISTOFORIDIS

Book Chapter  |  2013

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Manuel de Falla's Atlántida and the politics of Spain: From conception to first performance

M Christoforidis

Book Chapter  |  2013

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Modernist representations of the guitar and the instrument's classical revival in the 1920s

M Christoforidis, R Piquer Sanclemente

Book Chapter  |  2013

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Visiones de Grecia en la obra y el pensamiento de Manuel de Falla [Visions of Greece in the works and thoughts of Manuel de Falla]

M Christoforidis

Journal article  |  2013  |  Quodlibet

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Cubismo, Neoclasicismo y el renacimiento de la guitarra española a principios del siglo XX

M CHRISTOFORIDIS, R Piquer Sanclemente

Journal article  |  2012  |  Roseta

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Georges Bizet's Carmen and Fin-de-Siecle Spanish National Opera

Michael Christoforidis

Conference Proceedings  |  2011  |  Studia Musicologica: An International Journal of Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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The Ballets Russes, Spanish dance and El amor brujo in Australia

M CHRISTOFORIDIS

Book Chapter  |  2011

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Prologo

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Book Chapter  |  2010

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Isaac Albéniz's Alhambrism and fin-de-siècle Paris

M CHRISTOFORIDIS

Conference Proceedings  |  2009  |  Antes de Iberia: de Masarnau a Albéniz [Pre-Iberia: from Masarnau to Albéniz]

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Volver: Otra lectura de la ideologia politico-estetica de Manuel de Falla durante sus ultimos anos

M CHRISTOFORIDIS

Conference Proceedings  |  2009  |  Revista de musicologia

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Enrique Granados: Poet of the piano

Michael Christoforidis

Journal article  |  2008  |  Music and Letters

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Confronting Carmen beyond the Pyrenees: Bizet's opera in Madrid, 1887-1888

Elizabeth Kertesz, Michael Christoforidis

Journal article  |  2008  |  Cambridge Opera Journal

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Review: Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano by Walter Aaron Clark

M CHRISTOFORIDIS

Journal article  |  2008  |  Music and Letters

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Manuel de Falla, early music and the harpsichord in El retablo de Maese Pedro

M CHRISTOFORIDIS

Conference Proceedings  |  2007  |  Five centuries of Spanish keyboard music: Proceedings of FIMTE Symposia 2002-2004

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Manuel de Falla, flamenco and Spanish identity

Michael Christoforidis

Book Chapter  |  2007

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Symposium: Percy Grainger at 125 

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Creative Published Work  |  2007

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Symposium: Exoticism, Identity and Constructions of Hispanic Music

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Creative Published Work  |  2006

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Invasion of the barbarians: Spanish composers and challenges to exoticism in belle-epoque Paris

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Journal article  |  2006  |  Context

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From Folksong to Plainchant: Musical Borrowings and the Transformation of Manuel de Falla's Musical Nationalism in the 1920s

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Book Chapter  |  2005

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Manuel de Falla's Personal Library and Insights into the Composer's Annotations

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Book Chapter  |  2005

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Member of organising committee: Symposium: Music in France (1830-1940)

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Creative Published Work  |  2004

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Cendrillon, Cindarella and spectacle: Insights into Sor's most successful work

M CHRISTOFORIDIS, EJ KERTESZ

Book Chapter  |  2003

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Domenico Scarlatti and Manuel de Dalla's construction of Hispanic neoclassisism

M CHRISTOFORIDIS

Conference Proceedings  |  2003  |  The past in the present: papers read at the IMS Intercongressional Symposium and the 10th Meeting of the Cantus Planus, Budapest & Visegrád, 2000

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Barrios, Angel

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Scholarly edition  |  2002

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Falla, Manuel de

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Scholarly edition  |  2002

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Trend, John B.

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Scholarly edition  |  2002

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Falla, Manuel de

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Scholarly edition  |  2002

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Barrios, Angel

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Scholarly edition  |  2002

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Hacia Nuevos Conceptos de 'ópera' en los Pryectos de Manuel de Falla (1911-1923)

M CHRISTOFORIDIS

Conference Proceedings  |  2002  |  La ópera en España e Hispanoamérica

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Llobet, Miguel

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Scholarly edition  |  2002

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Jean-Aubry, Georges

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Scholarly edition  |  2002

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Igor Stravinsky, Spanish Catholicism and General'simo Franco

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Journal article  |  2002  |  Context

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Igor Stravinky's "Madrid", Pablo Picasso and the avante-garde in the visual arts

M CHRISTOFORIDIS

Conference Proceedings  |  2001  |  Campos interdisciplinares de la musicologia

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Exhibition: Propagandist of a timeless art: Percy Grainger and Early Music

M CHRISTOFORIDIS

Creative Published Work  |  2001

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Issues in the English Critical Reception of The Three-Cornered Hat

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Journal article  |  2001  |  Context

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Keyword Analysis

Arts and Leisure
Performing Arts
Performing Arts and Creative Writing
Art Theory and Criticism
Non-Oriented Research
Visual Arts and Crafts
Expanding Knowledge

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2008

Spanish Cultural Cooperation Programme - research award

Spanish Ministry of Culture & Australian National University
2002

Australian Research Council Discovery Project (2003-2007)

Australian Research Council
1998

Australian Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellowship

Australian Academy of the Humanities

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Associate Professor In Music (Musicology)

Melbourne Conservatorium Of Music

Member

International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)

Member

Society of Interdisciplinary Musicology (SIM)

Member

Sociedad Española de Musicología (SEdeM)

Member

Association of Iberian & Latin American Studies of Australasia (AILASA)

Member

American Musicological Society (AMS)

Member

Musicological Society of Australia (MSA)

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Arts

University of Melbourne

Graduate Diploma of Arts

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Bachelor of Music (Hons)

University of Melbourne

Diploma of Arts

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