Contact Details:

Room 123 Logic House, South Campus

Tel: (+353 1) 708 6457
Email: alison.hood@nuim.ie

Biography:

Alison Hood is a first-class honours graduate of Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests lie in the area of analysis and performance, particularly in piano music from the nineteenth century. She graduated from Trinity with a PhD entitled ‘Chopin's Strategic Integration of Rhythm and Pitch: a Schenkerian Perspective’.

During her time at Trinity she was awarded the Taylor Entrance Exhibition (1992), the Home Hewson Scholarship (1996), the Trinity College Postgraduate Award (1999), and the Government of Ireland Scholarship (1999). She was elected Scholar of Trinity in 1994. She lectured part-time in Trinity from 1997 to 2003 and was appointed visiting lecturer at the University of Oregon for the autumn term of 2001.

She began lecturing in the National University of Ireland, Maynooth in 2003. Alison's presentations and publications reflect her interests in musical analysis and performance.

Publications

Publications in press include the following contributions to edited books:

• ‘Intraopus Connections in Chopin’s Nocturnes Opus 27’, in Artur Szklener (ed.), The Sources of Chopin's Creative Style: Inspirations and Contexts (Warsaw, forthcoming, 2007)
• ‘Tonal and Rhythmic Hidden Repetition in Chopin’s Prelude Opus 28 No.14’, in Artur Szklener (ed.), Chopin in Paris: The 1830’s (Warsaw, forthcoming, 2008)
  Performance