Christina Guillaumier
PTHP Lecturer, Creative and Contextual Studies
Christina Guillaumier joined the Department of Creative and Contextual Studies at RSAMD in
2006. Prior to this post, she taught at McGill University, Canada. She also lectures at Glasgow
University. In January 2011, she was Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University. Following a
Bachelor degree in Humanities, Christina obtained her MMus from the University of London and an MSc
in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford where her work on the Russian
composer Sergei Prokofiev earned her a distinction. Her PhD (University of St Andrews) examined
Prokofiev’s early music, providing a genealogy of his musical ideas and tracing his musical
thoughts to their original sources in his childhood works.
Christina holds several diplomas in piano performance and is active as a chamber pianist,
accompanist and organist.
She has been awarded numerous awards including the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Doctoral Award; AHRC Overseas Study Award; AHRC Student Led Initiative Award; Rotary Ambassadorial
Scholarship; Russian Federation Scholarship, Pushkin Institute, Moscow; RSAMD Athenaeum Research
Award. Her research interests include Russian and Slavic music, opera, modernism, contemporary
opera.
Christina delivered a lecture at Princeton University, '“Creative Processes in
Prokofiev’s Eugene Onegin”, on 10th February.
Details are here
http://etcpanel.princeton.edu/music/conference-information
Public talks on Prokofiev's
Betrothal in a Monastery :
10 December 2011 - Scottish Opera, Glasgow
8 January 2012 - Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling
14 January 2012 - Founders Room, Edinburgh Gestival Theatre
21 January 2012 - "Between Tradition and Innovation: The Genius of Sergei
Prokofiev", Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Specialist Study Day
31 March 2012 - Puccini's 'Tosca', Scottish Opera, Elmbank Crescent, Glasgow,
10:30am
26 May 2012 - 'Between Tradition and Innovation: The Genius of Sergei
Prokofiev' Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Specialist Study Day
Work in progress
Monograph: The operas of Sergei Prokofiev (Boydell and Brewer: under contract)
Published research
‘War and Peace and Prokofiev’s late operatic aesthetic’ Three Oranges: the Journal of the
Serge Prokofiev Foundation 21, May 2011, 20-25.
‘Ambiguous Modernism: the early orchestral works of Sergei Prokofiev’, Tempo Vol.65 No. 256,
April 2011, 25-37.
‘The Giant and other creatures: Prokofiev’s childhood compositions’, Three Oranges: the
Journal of the Serge Prokofiev Foundation 20, November 2010, 29-35.
‘Prokofiev, opera and theatre: a case study of The Gambler’, Musicorum No.8, Tours: Université
François Rabelais, 2010, 67-101.
Review, ‘Prokofiev’s piano sonatas’ by Boris Berman, Music and Letters Volume 90, No. 4,
November 2009, 717-719.
Selected Conference Papers
“Prokofiev and the Russian style: an evaluation of the early operas”, Non-nationalist Russian
opera: International Symposium, University of Leeds, 17 November 2010.
“Prokofiev and the piano: the early years”, Music Research Seminars, University of Leeds, 18
November 2010.
“Operatic style in Sergei Prokofiev’s ‘War and Peace’”, Opera Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,
Rostov State Rachmaninov Academy, Rostov, 11 March 2010.
“Vintage Prokofiev: distinctive features of operatic style in ‘War and Peace’”, Sergei
Prokofiev and War and Peace, RSAMD, Glasgow, 21 January 2010.
“Sergei Prokofiev, Reluctant Modernist”, REEM Annual Conference, Oxford University, 17 October
2009.
“Prokofiev’s operatic adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s ‘The Gambler’”, RMA Annual Conference, Royal
Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, 9 – 12 July 2009.
“Childhood revisited: Prokofiev’s ‘Giant’ and other animals”, Royal Musical Association Study
Day, Goldsmiths, University of London, 10 May 2008.
“Opera or theatre? The problematic status of Prokofiev’s The Gambler”, International
Conference on ‘Song, Stage and Screen: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Musical Stage’,
University of Portsmouth, 28-30 April 2006.
Other output
BBC Radio 3: Music Matters, Prokofiev's The Gambler, presenter Petroc Trelawny, 6 February
2010.