Researcher profile

can be accessed on CRISTIN (Current Research Information System in Norway), which catalogues current research projects and results.

Additionally, more information about my ongoing doctoral project can be found on the Norwegian Academy of Music’s website.

Peer-reviewed Publications

Coffey, T (2025) “Cura (sui): Reconfiguring subjectivities and Western art music cartographies in curatorial performance practice.” Turba, vol. 3, iss. 2: Trouble with Identities. https://doi.org/10.3167/turba.2024.030206

Conference Papers:

Coffey, T (2025) “The curatorial in music historical context.” Ding-dong eller dong-ding? #3 En festival om forskning- og utviklingsarbeid. Norwegian Academy of Music (14–15 March 2025).

Coffey, T (2024) “Playing imaginary: curious becomings-with "moments of non-sense" in performer-curator practice.” InMusic24: Have you tried THIS? (14–16 June 2024).

Coffey, T (2023) “I am not a trumpet: unfolding artistic identity with instruments and bodies in performer-curator practice.” Ultima Kompass (14 September 2023).

Coffey, T (2023) “Music Mediation as Interface for Artistic Identity.” Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures: A Conference on Musical Media at Harvard University (11–13 May 2024).

Artistic Research Results

Coffey, T (2023) Flyt(t)ende. Norwegian Academy of Music (11 October 2023).

Appearances

Røtter: identitet og kulturhistorie / en samtale mellom PhD Lars-Thomas Holm og Theresa Coffey. Innpuls festival (23–25 January 2025).

Research Interests

  • curatorial performance practices

  • identity and subjectivity

  • musicologies of performance / performance studies

  • philosophies of immanence

  • feminist new materialisms

  • post-qualitative inquiry

Education

PhD in Performance Practice, Norwegian Academy of Music (expected 2025)

  • dissertation: Becoming with curatorial performance practice

Master in Music Performance, Norwegian Academy of Music (2017)

  • project: musical entrepreneurship (Surge Ensemble)

Master in Music (with research), University of Maryland School of Music (2015)

  • thesis: National romanticism in Irish art music

Bachelor in Music, Northwestern University (2012)

  • major in trumpet studies

  • minor in economics (10 courses: 2 statistics, 1 calculus, 7 economics)