- Annual Conference [ convening at different locations each year in Dec.] of Music Research Students:
(i) ‘’The “Orchestral Nature” of Tchaikovsky’s Piano-Writing’, University of Oxford, 1980.
(ii) ‘Aspects of Structure in Tchaikovsky’, University of Liverpool, 1981.
(iii) ‘“Modernisms” in Tchaikovsky’s Harmony and Tonality’, University of Surrey, 1982.
- Biennial Conference on 19th-Century Music:
‘Aspects of Tchaikovsky’s Orchestral Technique’, University of Birmingham, Jul. 1986.
- International Tchaikovsky Symposium, Oct. 1993 (commemorating the centenary of Tchaikovsky’s death), University of Tübingen, Germany:
‘On Čajkovskij’s [Tchaikovsky’s] Psychopathology and Its Relationship with His Creativity’; this talk was a revised and expanded version of the article published in ‘The Musical Times’: ‘Tchaikovsky: The Missing Piece of the Jigsaw Puzzle’. The talk was then printed in Čajkovskij-Studien [Tchaikovsky Studies] (see listing of both journal items, section (c)).
- Annual Music Festival, Bard College, New York State, U.S.A.:
The 1998 Festival was entitled: ‘Tchaikovsky and His World’, and its opening events took place at Annandale-on-Hudson where I was a panelist on a Public Panel discussing:
(i) ‘Tchaikovsky, the Public and Private Person: Issues of Love and Death’, 15 Aug.
(ii) ‘Russian Musical Education and Culture: Defining the Russian Musical Voice’, 16 Aug.
(iii) ‘Critical Assessment of Tchaikovsky as a Composer’, 22 Aug.
The second part of the Festival was in New York City itself, at the Lincoln Center, where I was again a panelist in a Public Panel, on this occasion discussing: ‘Tchaikovsky and Cultural Politics, Then and Now’, 31 Oct.
- Music and Psychoanalysis Study Day, 13 Nov. 2013, University of Liverpool:
‘Tchaikovsky as Embodiment of Paradox’; a Kleino-Freudian interpretation of the remarkably self-contradictory nature of Tchaikovsky’s personality. This talk evolved, and included some material, from a broadcast I originally made on BBC Radio 3 (see talk entitled ’Nothing is True Except What is Unsaid’ listed in section (e)).