Selected performances, presentations and public research activity.

2026

19 May 2026Embodied Research Methods in Music & Sound: Practices, Technologies and Spaces — co-convenor, MTI / Royal Musical Association Practice Research Study Group, University of Liverpool.
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12 April 2026Liquidating Localities: Christian Contemporary Worship as Cultural Colonialism — British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, King’s College London. 
BFE 2026 Conference

2025

6 August 2025Investigating the Exclusion of Traditional African Instruments in Worship — Christian Congregational Music Conference, Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford. 
Christian Congregational Music Conference

July 2025From Chords to Control: Harmonic Uniformity as a Mechanism for Abuse in Worship Teams — Society for Music Analysis, University of Liverpool.

24 May 2025 — Jonathan Crossley, Carlo Mombelli & Jonathan Sweetman — premiere of new works and free improvisation, Chiesa di PAZZO LUPi, Johannesburg. 
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28 April 2025 — Jonathan Crossley & David Kollar — concert following Kreatívna cesta hudobníka, Artscéna, Prešov Conservatoire, Slovakia. 
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April 2025Investigating the Exclusion of Traditional African Instruments in Worship — Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool.

2024

28 June 2024 — Jonathan Crossley, David Kollar & Lukas Ligeti — performance and recording of new works, Musical Futures / ICCaT, University of Liverpool. 
University of Liverpool research outputs

2023

2 December 2023Inhale: Live — ISCM World New Music Days, Cape Town, South Africa.
World New Music Days 2023

30 November 2023Bree Street / These Pipes Took Us Nowhere — ISCM World New Music Days, Johannesburg, with Carlo Mombelli, Marcus Wyatt, Siya Makuzeni and Jonathan Sweetman. 
ISCM World New Music Days programme

29 January 2023Inhale — South African album launch, Flame Studios, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, with Carlo Mombelli and Jonathan Sweetman; supported by Concerts SA and the Royal Norwegian Embassy. 
Music In Africa event feature

2022

2 December 2022Inhale — album launch, The Tung Auditorium, Liverpool, with Carlo Mombelli and Jonathan Sweetman. 
The Tung Auditorium – Inhale

30 November 2022 — Carlo Mombelli with Jonathan Crossley, Richard Worth & Jonathan Sweetman — The Tung Auditorium, Liverpool.
The Tung Auditorium event

29 November 2022Inhale: research, influences and practice — research seminar, University of Liverpool, opening the Sounds from South Africa series.
Sounds from South Africa programme

2022Iterative Musical Collaboration as Palimpsest: Suite Inversée and The Headroom Project — with Cameron Harris, Keep It Simple, Make It Fast!, University of Porto, Portugal. 
KISMIF Conference