Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland

Dr Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland is a Lecturer in Historical Musicology at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is the Lead Research Associate for the AHRC-funded project ‘The Edited Collection of Allan Ramsay’ at the University of Glasgow. She is the Principal Investigator for the Royal Society of Edinburgh-funded project, Scotland’s Singing for Health Network. She has been a Visiting Fellow at Chawton House (2017) and the University of Sydney (2017 & 2019), with her most recent visit culminating in several practice-based, collaborative performances between Scotland’s Concerto Caledonia and Melbourne’s Evergreen Ensemble. Her research has fed into the historically-led album Curious Caledonians (2020). Recent publications include Venanzio Rauzzini and the Birth of a New Style in English Singing Scandalous Lessons (2022) and Allan Ramsay’s The Tea Table Miscellany (2023) co-edited with Professor Murray Pittock.

She is on the board of the British Society of Eighteenth-century Studies and is the Music editor for BSECS Criticks and she is the honorary secretary for the Society for Theatre Research. She established the successful ECR mentoring scheme with the Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837. S

Brianna has spoken at the sold out TEDxGlasgow event, which is a locally organized event licensed by the famous TED organisation. She has sung in master classes and private lessons with early music specialists including Emma Kirkby, Nicholas Clapton and Robert Toft and regularly performs lecture-recitals at conferences and events.