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 (Forthcoming) "(De)territorializing virtu(e/osity): Musicalizing sociality and activism in THEY/THEM at Grand Theatre Groningen." Performance Research, Vol 31. Iss. 3: “On Musicality.”

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).

Other publications

Coffey, T (2026) «Kuratering eller kuratorisk?» Ballade (6 June 2026). https://www.ballade.no/forskning/kuratering-eller-kuratorisk/.

Appearances

Skal musikkforskningen redde verden? / En samtale med Theresa Coffey og Øivind Varkøy (Shall music research save the world? / A conversation between Theresa Coffey and Øivind Varkøy). Norges musikkhøgskole. https://student.nmh.no/arrangementer/stipendiatene-inviterer-redde-verden (12 June 2026).

Røtter: identitet og kulturhistorie / en samtale mellom PhD Lars-Thomas Holm og Theresa Coffey (Roots: identity and culture history / a conversation between PhD Lars-Thomas Holm and 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 (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)