Biography
Apolline Gouzi is a PhD candidate at Wolfson College. Her doctoral research, supervised by Prof. Katharine Ellis and funded by a Gates Scholarship, focuses on classical music festivals in the French regions after 1945. She was trained at the Conservatoire de Paris, where she read History of Music and Aesthetics and won two first prizes. She was also trained at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS). She holds an agrégation in music. Apolline was awarded a research prize from the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Center (CNLB) for her research on first-wave feminism in music.
Apolline is also a soprano in the Pembroke College Chapel Choir.
Research
- XXth century
- Music festivals
- French musical life during the Reconstruction
- Women musicians
- First-wave feminist movements in music
Publications
2025: "'Une liberté qui n’existait pas dans mon propre langage'. Les mélodies en langue française de Benjamin Britten", La Revue du Conservatoire, No. 8.
2024: "Les éphémères du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Une histoire matérielle du spectacle vivant.", in Camille Napolitano & Loïc Pierrot (eds.), Des Sources à saisir. Temporalités et usages des sources à la marge, École nationale des Chartes.
"Miser sur Mozart au casino : la naissance d'un festival au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale", in Martin Guerpin & Étienne Jardin (dir.), Faites vos jeux ! La vie musicale dans les casinos français (XIXe-XXIe siècles), Arles, Actes Sud, coll. Palazzetto Bru Zane, 2024.
2023: "'No longer alone': The Union des femmes artistes musiciennes (UFAM), a laboratory for new forms of professional socialisation for women musicians in the early 20th century?" — co-author : Arthur Macé, in Transposition [online] "Les socialisations musicales".
Teaching and Supervisions
- Part IB, Paper 12: Carmen in Context
- Part II, Paper 13: Messiaen and his World
Other Professional Activities
Digitisation of Simone Plé's encyclopaedia, Le Rôle des femmes dans les carrières musicales (1928) on the media base of the Palazzetto Bru Zane : https://www.bruzanemediabase.com/mediabase/fonds/role-femmes-carrieres-musicales-simone-ple.
