calendar
7–10 September 2026
“Prelude Middleground as Fugue Foreground”
Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya
11th European Music Analysis Conference (EuroMAC)
6–9 July 2026
“Toward ’Tension’ as Music Theory Fundamental”
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Music Theory Pedagogies Reimagined conference
10–12 May 2026
“A Hidden Motive, A Haptic Trace”
Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen (Switzerland)
Forgotten Recordings: Piano Roll Research Off the Beaten Track symposium
6 May 2026
Public talk (Forschungs-Mittwoch)
“Critically Editing The Art of Piano Pedaling”
Hochschule der Künste Bern (Switzerland)
13–15 April 2026
Teaching residency (Piano Department & Doctoral School)
Estonian Academy of Music & Theatre
Piano masterclass (13 Apr)
Chamber music masterclasses (13–14 Apr)
“Schenkerian Interpretive Practice: A View from the Studio”
(doctoral workshop, 13 Apr)
“Milton Babbitt’s Crystal Ball 60 Years Later”
(doctoral lecture, 15 Apr)
11 April 2026
“Defamiliarizing a Musical Masterpiece”
KU Leuven (Belgium)
Renegotiating the Musical Masterwork symposium
10–11 April 2026
Symposium co-convenor: “Renegotiating the Musical Masterwork”
KU Leuven (Belgium)
31 March 2025
Piano masterclass
Chamber music masterclass
Estonian Academy of Music & Theatre
27 March 2025
Piano masterclass
Finnish Music Campus
12–13 December 2024
Invited lecturer
Hochschule der Künste Bern (Switzerland), Institut Interpretation
1 November 2024
Piano masterclass
St. Petersburg State Conservatory (СПбГК)
5 November 2024
Piano masterclass
Special Music School of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory (ССМШ)
19 July 2024
Piano workshop
Verbier Festival Academy (Switzerland)
12–15 July 2024
ACTOR project summer school (timbre studies)
University of British Columbia (Canada)
24 July 2023
Piano workshop
Verbier Festival Academy (Switzerland)
26–28 October 2022
Chamber music masterclass
Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität für Musik, Schauspiel & Tanz (Austria)
30 Jun–3 July 2022
“Instrumental Theory: Counterpoint Rules and Freedom of Performance in Nadezhda Golubovskaya’s ‘Art of Piano Pedalling’ (1967)”
University of Surrey (UK)
Performance Studies Network conference
20 May 2022
Piano masterclass
Conservatorium van Amsterdam (Netherlands)
26 March 2022
Invited lecture
Estonian Academy of Music & Theatre
25 March 2022
Piano masterclass
Estonian Academy of Music & Theatre
21–26 September 2021
Plenary talk
“On Beethovenian Motives & Motivations”
Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Russia)
European Music Analysis Conference
28–31 July 2021
“From Pitch to Soundscape: Towards a Timbral Aural-Skills Curriculum for Pianists”
Frances Clarke Center for Keyboard Pedagogy (USA)
19 March 2020
Piano masterclass
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Music Studies (Greece)
[Postponed due to the pandemic]
18 March 2020
Invited lecture
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Music Studies (Greece)
[Postponed due to the pandemic]
29 February 2020
“Pedaling and Organicism in Beethoven’s Piano Works: A Historical Perspective from Leningrad”
Conservatorium van Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Beethoven2020 conference
12 September 2019
“The Untold Confluences of Intonatsiya and Synthese”
Royal Northern College of Music / University of Manchester (UK)
Royal Musical Association (RMA) Annual Conference
25 May 2019
“Schenkerian Analysis: Lessons from Chess Pedagogy”
University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
Music Theory Pedagogy into Practice conference
13 December 2018
Piano recital
Russian Institute for Art History (St. Petersburg, Russia)
12 December 2018
«После прослушивания Erinnerung Малера»
(“After a Hearing of Mahler’s Erinnerung”)
Russian Institute for Art History (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Music and Anthropologies of the Secret conference
8 November 2018
Invited lecture
“The End(s) of Analysis: Four Discourses for Music Theory Pedagogy”
Conservatorium van Amsterdam (Netherlands)
13 March 2017
Invited lecture
«Музыкальный анализ и critique pathétique Ролана Барта»
(“Music Analysis and Roland Barthes’s critique pathétique“)
Russian Institute for Art History (St. Petersburg, Russia)
selecteD publications
Jonathan Dunsby and Yannis Rammos. “Onset Asynchrony in Western Art Music: Fingers, Hammers, and Music Theory’s Ears.” Quodlibet 76 (2021): 126-158.
Le compositeur, son oreille et ses machines à écrire, by Fabien Lévy. Reviewed in Music & Letters 99, no. 2 (2018): 309–312.
Schumann’s Music and E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Fiction. Reviewed in Notes 75, no. 1 (2018).
Review-Article on Advanced Schenkerian Analysis: Perspectives on Phrase Rhythm, Motive, and Form, by David Beach. Music Theory & Analysis 4, no. 1 (2017): 131–144.
Rethinking Schumann, edited by Laura Tunbridge and Roe-Min Kok. Reviewed in Notes 69, no. 4 (2013): 775–778.
Sounding the Virtual: Gilles Deleuze and the Theory and Philosophy of Music, edited by Brian Hulse and Nick Nesbitt. Reviewed in Notes 68, no. 2 (2011): 351–354.
REPERTOIRE
Winter 2026
Brahms, Intermezzi, op. 117
Rachmaninoff, Romances (selection)
Ravel, Piano Concerto in G
Schubert, Impromptus (D.899, D.935)
Schumann, Kreisleriana, op. 16
Scriabin, 24 Preludes, op. 11 (selection)