2011

November 8-12, Tomás Luis de Victoria Conference, Centro de Música Antigua, León

October 28-Nov 6, Corpus des Luthistes, CESR Tours

October 14, Research Seminar, Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Sydney

September 26, 6pm Spanishness and Spanish Music, Lecture, Instituto Cervantes, Sydney

August 26, Lectura Dantis, Incidental music for a reading of the Divina Comedia, Italian Cultural Institute, Melbourne

August 23, Hartley Newnham & John Griffiths, EMS Soiree Concerts, Early Music Studio, Melbourne

August 21, Hartley Newnham & John Griffiths, Airey’s Inlet Writers’ Festival, Airey’s Inlet

August 16-17, Ricardo Gallén & John Griffiths, concert & masterclasses, New Zealand School of Music, Wellington

August 13-14, Ricardo Gallén & John Griffiths, concert & masterclasses, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music

August 11-12, Ricardo Gallén & John Griffiths, concert & masterclasses, Canberra School of Music

August 5-6, Ricardo Gallén & John Griffiths, concert & masterclasses, Sydney Conservatorium

August 3, Research Seminar, University of Sydney

July 16-19, Gijón, VII Encuentro de la Sociedad de la Vihuela,

July 10-14, CESR Tours, Corpus des Luthistes

July 5-8, Med-Ren Conference, Barcelona

June 29, A Celebratory Farewell to Professor John Griffiths, Melba Hall, University of Melbourne

May 26, 11 am Valedictory lecture, Postgraduate Seminar, University of Melbourne: “Spinacino's twelve-tone experiment — a renaissance fantasy in performance, research, and performed research”

2010

October 16-22, 1st Seville International Guitar Competition, Seville, Spain

October 9-12, 2010 Encuentro of the Sociedad de la Vihuela

May 25-June 11, Research work, Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR), Tours, France

May 21-24: European Lute Festival, Füssen, Germany

May 2: La Romanesca. 2:30 pm Quiet Music Festival, Incinerator Arts Complex, 180 Holmes Rd, Moonee Ponds

March 30, 7:00 pm La Romanesca, Early Music Studio, University of Melbourne, 27 Royal Pde Parkville

March 28, 2:30 pm. La Romanesca, Qdos Gallery, Allenvale Rd, Lorne. Homage to Bryan Poynton

March 7: La Romanesca. 2pm, Lyrebird Music Society, St Peters Eastern Hill, Melbourne

2009

November 9-20: Visiting Professor. Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile

October 3-11: Artistic Director, Melbourne Early Music Festival

August 17: Vihuela and Lute recital, Early Music Studio, University of Melbourne

July 5-10: Convener of round table, “Tablature — The Encoded Labyrinth of Performance”, International Musicological Society Conference, Amsterdam

April-May: Visiting Professor, Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR), Tours, France

April 2: La Romanesca. Castlemaine State Festival

2008

December 4-7: Convener. 31st Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia. University of Melbourne

November 13-14: Australian Academy of the Humanities Symposium: The Inspiration of Place. The Artistic Life of Cities., Sydney Opera House. Paper: Esteban’s Ear: The Urban Soundscape of Renaissance Valladolid

October 10-19: Artistic Director, Melbourne Spring Early Music Festival. University of Melbourne.

August 28-31: Festival Lecture:  Utrecht Festival of Early Music 2008 “Siglos de Oro”. Lecture title: Courtier, merchant, poet, priest: vihuelas and vihuelistas in urban life.

July 24-27: Medieval & Renaissance Music Conference, University of Bangor (Wales). Coordinator of session: Urban Soundscapes in Renaissance Spain, with participants Soterraña Aguirre (Universidad de Valladolid), Juan Ruiz Jiménez (Granada), Cristina Diego (Université de Nancy III), José Antonio Gutiérrez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Paper: Towards an Urban History of Instruments and Instrumental Practice.

July 9-11: Conference. Cathedral, Court, City & Cloister. Fisher Library, University of Sydney. Paper: Models for Urban Music History in Renaissance Spain.

July 2-4: Conference. VIII Biennial Conference of the Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia, Monash University. Paper: Printing and the popularisation of music culture in renaissance Spain.

May 31: Performance. Bass Desire. Performance in the 2008 Past Echoes Autumn Early Music Festival. Music of the 16th and 17th centuries directed by Victoria Watts & Ruth Wilkinson, with Julia Freddersdorf, Donald, Laura Vaughan, David Macfarlane, Kara Ciezki, Louisa Hunter-Bradley

May 30-31: Conference. Imagination, Books and Community in Medieval Europe. Conference, State Library of Victoria. Paper: The Alfonsine Encyclopaedia of Music.

April 24: Performance. La Romanesca, Monodies. State Library of Victoria. Performance in the Medieval Music Illuminated series. This was also La Romanesca’s 30th anniversary performance.

April 10-24: Artistic Director. Medieval Music Illuminated, State Library of Victoria, Musical Director of Concert Series

March 9: Performance. La Romanesca, Music of the 12th & 15th centuries. Millenium Series, Lara