Dr Kerry Houston

CURRICULUM VITAE KERRY HOUSTON 1. EDUCATION Pontifical University (Maynooth) Higher diploma in Theologiocal Studies 2010 Trinity College Dublin Ph.D.: The Eighteenth-Century Music Manuscripts at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin: Sources, Lineage, and Relationship to Other Collections 2002 B.A. (Mod) in music 1988 2. OTHER RELEVANT QUALIFICATIONS 2.1 Music  Organ: L.R.S.M L.L.C.M. (T.D.) 1987 1985  Piano: L.L.C.M. (T.D.) 1985  Singing: A.L.C.M 1983 2.2 Accountancy  A.C.C.A. Examinations Level 2—Provisional Passes Level 1—Completed 1983 1982 3. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE 3.1 Financial/Personnel/Project & Planning Management 3.1.1 Administrator St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin 1998–2002 Responsibilities included:  Management of cathedral budget (in excess of 1 million euro per annum)  Management of the cathedral’s human resources (thirty full-time and part-time staff)  Identification of grant-aid and sponsorship opportunities  Co-ordination of architectural and building projects  Development of the music department (including the establishment of Choral Scholarships and the re-establishment of a CD recording programme)  Event management/publicity  Developing cathedral publications programme 3.1.2 Clerical Officer/Trainee Accountant Representative Church Body, Dublin 1979–1984 Responsibilities included:  Administration of payroll of over 1,000 employees, specialising in taxation and life assurance issues 3.2 Educational Administration 3.2.1 Tutor Co-ordinator Music Department, NUI, Maynooth 2003–5 Responsibilities include:  Selection of tutors (by examination) and allocation of c.300 students to tutorial groups  Timetabling and room allocation 3.2.2 Undergraduate Course Co-ordinator Music Department, NUI, Maynooth 2003–5 Responsibilities include:  Monitoring students’ academic progress and attendance  Identifying areas of need and proposing initiatives to improve aspects of curriculum development and/or resource allocation to the Professor of Music 3.2.3 Chairman Board of Management St Patrick’s Cathedral Grammar School since 2003 3.2.4 Treasurer St Patrick’s Cathedral Choir School since 2003 Treeasurer 3.3 Music Administration Conference Conference  Mendelssohn in the Long Nineteenth Century Conference. Trinity College Dublin 2005 Committee member and treasurer Committee member and treasurer  15th International Conference on Nineteenth-century Music. University College Dublin 2005 Committee member and treasurer Interdisciplinary Symposium 3 February 2007 DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama Musical Journeys with the Flight of the Earls:—Conference organiser Interdisciplinary Symposium 25 April 2009 DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama Music, Plantation and Migration—Conference organiser  International Analysis Conference. University College Dublin 2005 Committee member and treasurer  15th International Conference on Nineteenth-century Music. University College Dublin 2005 Committee member and treasurer  St Michael’s Church Dún Laoighaire International Organ Series 2002–08 Chairman Planning annual international series of organ recitals  Dublin Master Classes 2000–07 Director Planning and implementing annual master classes with artists of international repute  9th International Baroque Music Conference. Trinity College Dublin 2000 Committee member and treasurer  Dublin International Organ and Choral Festival 1984–2002 Executive Committee member (included a term as treasurer) 4. RESEARCH PROFILE 4.1 Research Interests: Source studies with a particular interest in sources for sacred music in England and Ireland 1660–1900; editing and stemmatic analysis; harmonic theory and history of music education; reception history with particular interest in Mendelssohn; theology and number symbolism in music 4.2 Positions:  Founder member of the Irish working group of RISM since 2003  Subject editor with Gerard Gillen for sacred music in the Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland since 2003 4.3 Publications:  Three Chapters on music St Patrick’s Cathedral: A History (eds Raymond Gillespie and John Crawford) Four Courts Press June 2009  Complete critical edition of the sacred music of Daniel, Thomas and Ralph Roseingrave in collaboration with Andrew Johnstone (Trinity College Dublin) In preparation  A catalogue of music manuscripts at St Patrick’s and Christ Church Cathedrals, Dublin in collab-oration with Susan Hemmens (Marsh’s Library) In preparation  The Eighteenth-Century Music Manuscripts at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin: Sources, Lineage, and Relationship to Other Collections: proposed publication of Ph.D. thesis by Scarecrow Press (ed. Robin A. Leaver) In preparation  Entry on Charles Kitson and the Roseingrave family in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart 2003  ‘Archival Sources for Sacred Music at St Patrick’s Cathedral’, Irish Society for Archives, Newsletter September 2002  A Historical Anthology of Irish Church Music, Irish Musical Studies, Vol. 6 (Dublin: Four Courts Press): co-author with Andrew Johnstone of section 1 of introduction and edition of Jubilate Deo in C (Carter) 2002 Contributor and co editor (with Barra Boydell) to Ireland, Music and the Seventeenth Cenbtury, Irish Musical Studies, Vol. 10 (Dublin: Four Courts Press): April 2009 Entry on the Roseingrave family in Dictionary of Irish Biography (Cambridge University Press) 4.4 Conference Papers: Re-evaluating the Roseingraves: an assessment of the music and historiography of a prominent family of musicians in eighteenth-century Dublin Durham July 2010 Retrenchment and revival: an uncertain path for music at Dublin’s Anglican cathedrals from the founding of the Irish Free State until the close of the twentieth century Joint SMI/RMA Conference Royal Irish Academy of Music July 2009 Mercer’s Hospital part books: a window on eighteenth-century music making in Dublin. SMI Conference Mary Immaculate College May 2006 Music in the chapel of Trinity College Dublin SMI Conference WIT May 2008 Handel and Dublin: An investigation of documentation from Mercer’s Hospital providing new information on repertoire and performance practice in eighteenth century Dublin. 12th International Baroque conference Warsaw 2006 I heard a voice from heaven: Music and repertoire transmission at the Dublin cathedrals in the age of Dean Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) 13th International Baroque conference University of Leeds July 2008  Mendelssohn in the Long Nineteenth Century conference, TCD: Mendelssohn and Ireland: an investigation of the relationship of Mendelssohn with nineteenth-century Irish composers and early performances of his music in Dublin July 2005  Music and Culture in Seventeenth-Century Ireland conference, NUI, Maynooth, in association with the Society for Musicology in Ireland: Music fit for a King: an examination of the repertoire in the Dublin cathedrals at the Restoration of Charles II April 2005  11th International Baroque conference Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester: Would the real Mr Roseingrave stand up please? July 2004  Society for Musicology in Ireland: Mr Tallis in Dean Aldrich’s clothes: an investigation of differing versions of Tallis’s music disguised by Henry Aldrich and taking on a new costume on its journey to Dublin. May 2004  Society for Musicology in Ireland, inaugural conference: Misattributions and mysteries: an examination of the dangers of over dependence on single sources or a small representation of sources in the identification and dating of repertoire. May 2003  NUI Musicology research paper: Carters and Roseingraves: a confusing web of misattributions surrounding two eighteenth-century families of musicians working in Dublin March 2003  University of Utrecht, Baroque Studies Symposium: Archival sources for Chapel Royal anthems at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin November 2002  10th International Baroque conference Universidad de La Rioja (Spain): Purcell lost in England, but found in Dublin: an examination of sources for an early symphony anthem by Henry Purcell recently discovered in Dublin July 2002  Irish Chapter of R.M.A. (U.C.D.): John Mathews—a specimen of Georgian ignorance—a reassessment of a prolific eighteenth-century music copyist May 2002  Irish Chapter of R.M.A. (Waterford Institute of Technology): The early symphony anthems of Henry Purcell 1999 5. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 5.1 Lecturer in Music (contract post) N.U.I., Maynooth, County Kildare since September 2002  Undergraduate courses taught Foundation studies Eighteenth-century keyboard inventions Tonal music in theory and practice The music of Henry Purcell Classical vocal harmony Baroque counterpoint Music theory and education in the age of Bach and Handel Eighteenth-century trio sonata Overview of the music of Mendelssohn Supervision of undergraduate theses  Postgraduate courses taught Music in the English Church and Court 1500–1700 2004–2005 Sources for Sacred Music in England 1550–1750 2003–2004 Text setting in English Sacred Music 2002–2003 5.2 Musicianship Teacher (part-time) Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin 2002–2004  Musicianship tuition  Junior Certificate class  Syllabus development  Responsibilities for setting and marking annual assessments 5.3 Tutor N.U.I., Maynooth, County Kildare 1996–98  Tutor–keyboard harmony and sight singing, included: Teaching of all final year students Co-ordinating an exercise to ensure a consistent approach to the subject from the tutors for first and second year students (about eight tutors) 5.4 Lecturer in Music (contract post) Trinity College Dublin 1990–98  Survey and specialised history courses for B.A. and B.Mus.Ed., included: B.Mus.Ed. nineteenth-century history course Mendelssohn’s role in the revival of interest in the music of J.S. Bach Sacred music for celebration and commemoration in seventeenth-century England Continuo playing in theory and practice during the eighteenth century The organ works of César Franck and the development of the French Romantic organ school Number symbolism in music  Keyboard harmony: Introduction of new syllabus including the design of over forty weekly assignments covering figured bass reading, transposition, melody harmonisation, vocal and orchestral score reading  Examiner, undergraduate dissertations  Member of interview panel for prospective B.Mus.Ed. students 5.5 Teacher St Patrick’s Cathedral Choir School 1987–92  Tuition in piano, class singing, aural training  Preparing cathedral choristers for Associated Board examinations and Feiseanna  Developing group music-making skills (duet playing, pianists accompanying violists etc) 5.6 Teacher Church of Ireland College of Education 1985–96 Preparing B.Ed. students for practical examinations and developing accompanying skills appropriate for use in classroom situations 6. TECHNICAL AND OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE 6.1 CD Producer  Choir of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin: Christmas at St Patrick’s (STPC2003) 2004  The Mornington Singers: Sacred 2002  The Choir of Trinity College Chapel: Incarnation (TCDCC003) 2000  David Leigh: Organ Music from Saint Patrick’s Cathedral (STPC2002) 2000  The Girls’ Choir of Christ Church Cathedral: Ex Ore Innocentium (CCCD 2) 1999  David Adams: Organ (TCDCC002) 1998  The Choir of Trinity College Chapel: Bow down thine ear (TCDCC001) 1996 6.2 Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin 2  Local Centre Examiner since 1989  External assessor for organ and harpsichord occasional  External diploma examiner for organ occasional 6.3 RTÉ, Dublin 4  Member of RTÉ Chorus and deputy member of RTÉ Chamber Choir 1986–93 6.4 St Catherine’s and St James’ Church, Donore Avenue, Dublin 8  Organist since 1985 6.5 Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2  Successively Organ Scholar and Director of Chapel Music since 1984 7. MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES  The Irish Society for Archives since 2004  The American Bach Society since 2003  The Society for Musicology in Ireland since 2003  Society for Seventeenth-Century Music since 2001  British Institute of Organ Studies since 1995

Music of Ireland, Manuscript Studies, Reception history, Theology and music