One of my tasks, as advisor to the Utrecht Early Music Festival, is the organization of our yearly STIMU Symposia. The StIchting Muziekhistorische Uitvoeringspraktijk, lovingly known as STIMU, facilitates and supports the dissemination of musicological research that can have an audible impact on performance. Originally, very much in tune with the thinking of the times, the STIMU focused on organology. Since 2012, however, STIMU symposia have 'zoomed out', in response to changes in musicology more generally. We now invite not only musicologists, but also performers and creators to speak, and we also involve scholars from sister disciplines like cultural musicology, art history and architecture, letters and dance. I have at times organized the conferences myself, but more often the STIMU symposia have been co-curated, in order to profit from the expertise of my colleagues.

Sadly, the corona crisis put a stop to STIMU in 2020 and 2021, but we hope to start again in 2022 with a symposium on the flute, curated by Anne Smith.