Researcher profile

can be accessed on the Nasjonalt vitenarkiv , 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.

Monographs

Coffey, T (2025) Becoming with curatorial performance practice. Emergence of perform(ance/er) agencies, subjectivities, and artist(ic) haecceity in curatorial music performance (Doctoral thesis). Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3198148

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)