Emily Payne is a Doctoral student at the Music Faculty at Oxford under the supervision of Eric Clarke, and a research assistant with the Music and Digitisation Research Group. She helped to organise the Music, Digitisation, Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies Conference in July 2013.
Emily's thesis examines the creative processes of performance, with a focus on clarinettists. Her work investigates notions of creativity the performance of notated music, and how performers might experience opportunities for creativity across different contexts. Emily holds a BMus in clarinet performance from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and an MMus in Advanced Musical Studies (Performance Studies) from Royal Holloway, University of London, funded by a Departmental Masters Studentship. She is a tutor in music at a number of Oxford Colleges. Forthcoming publications include articles in Musicae Scientiae and Cultural Geographies, and an interlude in Creativity, Improvisation and Collaboration: Perspectives on the Performance of Contemporary Music, edited by Eric Clarke and Mark Doffman (O.U.P., 2015). She was Student Representative for the Royal Musical Association (2013-15) and she helps to run the TORCH Embodiment and Materiality Network.
