Janice (Jan) B. Stockigt
Janice (Jan) B. Stockigt, MMus PhD
Principal Research Fellow
Jan Stockigt completed her doctoral thesis 'The Vespers Psalms of Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) in the Liturgy and Life of the Dresden Catholic Court Church' at the University of Melbourne in 1994. This work was awarded the inaugural Chancellor's Prize, and the Harbison-Higinbotham Research Scholarship for 1994.
Between 1997 and early 2000, as a Post-doctoral Fellow (awarded by the Australian Research Council), she wrote a book, Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745): A Bohemian Musician at the Court of Dresden (OUP, November 2000), which has recently been awarded the Derek Allen Prize for 2001 by the British Academy, and the inaugural Woodward Medal for a significant contribution in the area of humanities at the University of Melbourne.
She has been awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, and for the next five years she will be based in the Faculty of Music at The University of Melbourne. Her research project investigates Catholic music composed, collected, and performed in Saxony during the lifetime of Johann Sebastian Bach. This study focuses upon the music collection of the Catholic court church, Dresden.
In addition, she is engaged on a project headed by Assoc prof Kerry Murphy of the University of Melbourne which investigates the 19th century music collections of the Melbourne Philharmonic Choir and the Melbourne Liedertafel.
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j.stockigt@unimelb.edu.au