Lizzy Hardman

Profile

I am a marketing and events professional as well as operatic soprano and musicologist. I am currently conducting PhD research on ‘Confronting canonicity and promoting diversity: Gender and contemporary concert programming’ with Drs Laura Hamer, Marie Thompson and Manuella Blackburn in collaboration with the Donne Foundation, supported by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership. My research interests are gender and queer theory, performance practice, programming, and opera and musical theatre (particularly 19^th century onwards). I am an alumna of King’s College London and University of Leeds.

Responsibilities

• Marketing and publicity UoL International Concert Series
• Event management for UoL International Concert Series
• FAHC Comms Liaison

Research interests

My main interests lie within concert programming, performance (particularly verismo opera), and gender studies. Previous theses include ‘‘In Praise of Women’: the fates and treatment of women in Sondheim’s musicals’ and ‘‘Il dolce suono’: the semiotics of diegetic opera in film’. 

I am currently conducting PhD research on ‘Confronting canonicity and promoting diversity: Gender and contemporary concert programming’ with Drs Laura Hamer and Manuella Blackburn in collaboration with the Donne Foundation, supported by and OOC-DTP studentship. 

Qualifications

• MMus Performance | University of Leeds (2020)
• BMus Music | King's College London (2018)