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
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, https://www.chartes.psl.eu/sites/default/files/public/media/document/2024-12/cjm-2021-livre-complet.pdf.
"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", 2023, https://journals.openedition.org/transposition/8109.
- In the concert database Dezède (https://dezede.org/), inventory of the programs of the end-of-year public instrumental competitions during the terms Théodore Dubois (1896-1905) and Gabriel Fauré (1905-1920) : https://dezede.org/dossiers/id/550/.
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In the concert database Dezède (https://dezede.org/),inventory of the concerts organised by the Union des femmes artistes musiciennes (UFAM) between 1910 and 1939 : dezede.org/dossiers/id/500/.
Teaching and Supervisions
- Part II, Paper 13: Messiaen and his World
Other Professional Activities
Invited speaker in the podcast Métaclassique, n°279, "FILTRER", on recent research on networks of French musiciennes of the beginning of the 20th century: https://metaclassique.com/metaclassique-259-filtrer/. And on the Belgian national radio RTBF: https://auvio.rtbf.be/media/par-oui-dire-par-oui-dire-3161195.
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.
