Jasper Van Der Klis

Jasper van der Klis (Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, 1991) studied piano performance with Sebastián Colombo and Alan Weiss at the Utrecht Conservatoire (BMus, 2015) and with Peter Bithell at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London (MPerf, 2017). At Guildhall School he also completed doctoral research on Busoni’s interpretative editions of Bach’s keyboard works (DMus, 2022; supervisors Professor Sir Barry Ife and Dr Christopher Suckling). His studies in London were supported by the Guildhall School Trust and the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.

As Postdoctoral researcher on the ‘Texting Scarlatti’ project, Jasper was primarily involved with data collection and analysis and oversaw the collation efforts of a team of citizen scientists. A Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Musicology at Guildhall School and 2025-2026 DISKAH Fellow, he is currently exploring the use of national Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) in musicological research using the Texting Scarlatti dataset.

Domenico Scarlatti, digital humanities, phylogenetics in musicology, nineteenth-century piano performance practice, early recordings, Ferruccio Busoni

Prospective

Barry Ife, Jasper van der Klis, Marco Moiraghi, Luisa Morales, ‘The sources’ in The Cambridge Companion to Domenico Scarlatti, ed. Luisa Morales. Contracted by Cambridge University Press for publication in Spring 2028

Barry Ife and Jasper van der Klis, ‘From Sonatas to Sonnets? The theory and practice of phylogenetics and its potential application to literary studies, with particular reference to the poetry of the Spanish cancioneros.’ Joint paper accepted for the annual conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI), Lancaster University, 23 and 24 March 2026 

Jasper van der Klis, ‘When in Rome? New discoveries from the Münster Scarlatti manuscripts’, under review

Jasper van der Klis, ‘Fortunato Santini and Domenico Scarlatti’, in preparation

Jasper van der Klis, ‘Domenico Scarlatti manuscripts in Berlin’, in preparation

Barry Ife and Jasper van der Klis, ‘Texting Scarlatti and phylogenetics’, in preparation

Past

Sounding Board 23 guest-edited by Barry Ife and Jasper van der Klis, published online at https://www.harpsichord.org.uk/sounding-board/

Barry Ife and Jasper van der Klis, ‘About “Texting Scarlatti: composition, reception, performance”’, pp. 4-17

Jasper van der Klis, ‘Compiling Scarlatti: the Münster volumes in the Santini collection’, pp. 25-34

Barry Ife and Jasper van der Klis, ‘Kirkpatrick Supplement of Attributed and Attributable Sonatas’, pp. 77-89

Panel (introduction and three analytical papers) dedicated to the ‘Texting Scarlatti’ project at the 16^th FIMTE symposium, Vera, Almería, 24-26 October 2025

Jasper van der Klis, ‘Texting Scarlatti and phylogenetics’

In person and online ResearchWorks seminar, Barry Ife and Jasper van der Klis, ‘Texting Scarlatti: methods, outcomes and lessons learned’, hosted by Guildhall School on 20 October 2025 

NFCS NetworkPlus Autumn Conference, University of Edinburgh, 22-23 September 2025

Brian Ball, Jasper van der Klis and Karina Rodriguez, ‘User Stories: from laptop to cluster with DISKAH fellows’

Panel (presentation and three analytical papers) dedicated to the ‘Texting Scarlatti’ project at the 21st Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, Birmingham, 16-20 July 2025

Jasper van der Klis, ‘Copying Scarlatti: the provenance of the Santini collection’

Instituto Cervantes, Utrecht (the Netherlands): Jasper van der Klis, lecture recital 'Domenico Scarlatti y España', 6 March 2025

Barry Ife, Jasper van der Klis, Jérémie Lumbroso, Marco Moiraghi, Luisa Morales, ‘”Texting Scarlatti”: unlocking a standard edition with a digital toolkit’, Journal of New Music Research 53/3-4 (2024), The Future of Digital Music Editions, pp. 259-276 (doi: 10.1080/09298215.2024.2408266). Published online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09298215.2024.2408266

Barry Ife, Jasper van der Klis and Marco Moiraghi, Online panel, ‘Texting Scarlatti: Composition, Reception, Performance’, for the ‘Round table in memoriam Emilia Fadini’, 4 May 2024

Online ResearchWorks seminar, (full team) ‘Next Steps in Scarlatti Research’, hosted by Guildhall School on 27 February 2023 (https://bit.ly/ScarlattiArgosFeb27Talk)

'Busoni’s ‘Beiträge zu einer Hochschule des Clavierspiels’ and the performance of Bach on the modern piano' (unpublished doctoral thesis, Guildhall School, London, 2022)