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Suzana Ograjenšek
Suzana Ograjenšek is a Research Fellow at Clare Hall.
Clare Hall, Herschel Road, Cambridge, CB3 9AL UK
e-mail: so228@cam.ac.uk
Suzana Ograjenšek studied Musicology and Comparative Literature at the
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana. She has written for
several Slovene magazines and worked for Radio Slovenia as an editor of
the Arts Programme and in the music production. In 2000 she took her
MPhil at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where her dissertation ‘Handel’s
opera Tolomeo: a study of its genesis and performances during
the composer’s lifetime’ was awarded a distinction. She has recently completed her
PhD dissertation ‘From Alessandro (1726) to Tolomeo
(1728): the final Royal Academy operas’, a historicist study of the
Academy operas written during the infamous ‘Rival Queens’ period. Her
postdoctoral research projects include the edition of Il pastor fido
for the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe and a monograph on opera seria in
early eighteenth-century London.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Eighteenth-century opera seria: European centres, intellectual
contexts, composers (in particular Handel, Giovanni Bononcini,
Ariosti), singers and their relationship with composition, stagecraft,
aesthetics
AWARDS
2005: DAAD Visiting
Fellowship at the Institut für Musikwissenschaft and at the
Händel-Haus in Halle/Saale; 2004: The Handel Institute
Research Award; 2003:
Selwyn College Hamilton Scholarship; 2002–2003: Ad Futura
Foundation (Slovenia) award; 2002: Beryl Mavis Green
Scholarship from The British Federation of Women Graduates; 2001–2002:
ORS award for postgraduate studies at Cambridge University; 1999–2002:
Cambridge Overseas Trust bursary and scholarship for postgraduate
studies at Cambridge University; 1999: Musica Britannica Trust
award for research in English music; Selwyn College scholarship,
Municipality of Žalec award; 1994: TEMPUS-scheme award for one
term at Royal Holloway College, University of London; 1992–2000:
Slovenian State Zois scholarship
ARTICLES
- ‘Tragédie into dramma per musica, or Salvi’s Astianatte –
the journey of an opera libretto and its English destination’, in Kathryn Lowerre (ed.),
Stages "Adorn'd with ev'ry Grace": Music, Dance & Drama in London at the beginning of
the long eighteenth century (Ashgate, forthcoming)
- ‘Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni: the pairing of
sopranos in early eighteenth-century opera seria’, in Proceedings
of the International Symposium on Eighteenth-Century Singing: ‘Il
Trionfo d’Italia’, organised by Stichting Muziekhistorische
Uitvoeringspraktijk at Instituto Cervantes, Utrecht, August 2004
(forthcoming)
- ‘Handel’s opera Tolomeo: a study of its genesis and
performances during the composer’s lifetime’ [in Slovene] in Lobnikar,
Branko & Žurej, Jurij (ed.), Raziskovalno delo podiplomskih
študentov v Sloveniji – novo tisočletje. Družboslovje in humanistika
(Ljubljana, 2001), 709–723
- ‘Correspondence between Risto Savin and Makso Pirnik’ [in
Slovene] in Goropevšek, Branko (ed.), Savinjski zbornik VII (
Žalec, 1998), 288–301
In preparation
- ‘‘The Rival Queens’, ‘The Rival Queans’, or ‘Gli amori
d’Alessandro’? Intention and outcome in Handel’s first
Senesino-Bordoni-Cuzzoni opera’, submitted to Eighteenth-Century
Music
- ‘Handel’s and Rolli’s Riccardo primo (1727) and
changing circumstances’
EDITIONS (in preparation)
- Two volumes for the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe,
Serie II (Opern): Band 5a Il pastor fido HWV8a, Band 5b Il
pastor fido HWV 8b–c
- Royal Academy libretti 1726–1728 and their sources
REVIEWS AND REPORTS
- ‘‘Il Trionfo d’Italia’: International Symposium on
Eighteenth-Century Singing; organised by Stichting Muziekhistorische
Uitvoeringspraktijk [STIMU, Foundation for Historical Performance
Practice] at Instituto Cervantes, Utrecht, 28–30 August 2004’, Eighteenth-Century
Music, ii (2005), vol. 2 (forthcoming)
- ‘Venceslav Wratny, Missa in Bb; Missa in A;
Missa in G (edited by Aleš Nagode)’, Nineteenth-Century
Music Review, i (2004), vol. 1
CONFERENCES AND TALKS
- Recent conference participation includes papers at the 40th
Royal Musical Association Annual Conference in Birmingham (November
2004), at the International Symposium on Eighteenth-Century Singing
organised by the Stichting Muziekhistorische Uitvoeringspraktijk at the
Early Music Festival in Utrecht (August 2004), and at the British
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 33rd Annual Conference in Oxford
(January 2004). Invited talks include Seminar in Musicology at
University College Dublin (November 2004) and the British Federation of
Women Graduates Research Presentation Day (June 2003).
TEACHING
- Supervision of courses on baroque music (‘Music and Society
in Handel’s London’), renaissance music (‘Constructing the Renaissance
Canon’), and of undergraduate dissertation (IB dissertation on Handel’s
Israel in Egypt).
JOURNALISM AND PROGRAMME NOTES
- Classical music editor of the music magazine GM
(1994–1997); classical music columnist for the University of Ljubljana
Student Union magazine Tribuna (1995–1997); contributions to
the Slovene Musicological Society Bulletin; programme notes for
the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music (2002).
BROADCASTS
- External correspondent of the Radio Slovenia Arts Programme
since 1996; credits include writing, producing, and editing programmes
on Slovene music and early music, e.g. a nine-part series of 90-minute
programmes on Handel oratorios.
SOUNDTRACK EDITIONS
- Editor at the Radio Slovenia Music Production between 1998
and 2000; releases of Mozart’s Requiem (Radio Slovenia Symphony
Orchestra and Chorus, 2000), programme of contemporary organ music
(Angela Tomanič, 2000), and music by Friderik Širca–Risto Savin (1998)
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE (SOPRANO)
Suzana is a high soprano specializing in baroque performance. During
her time in Cambridge she has won the Williamson prize for musical
performance at Selwyn and has had the opportunity to work with
Christopher Hogwood. Her recital repertoire focuses on music of the
high Baroque; recent concert performances include Bach’s B-minor
Mass and Fauré’s Requiem. In 2003 she sang in
Handel’s L’Allegro at the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music
with the Freiburger Barockorchester. Currently she is preparing a
programme of Handel cantatas and has recently taken masterclasses with
Anthony Rolfe Johnson.
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