Music and Music Technology Staff
Stewart Worthy
Admissions Tutor -
Music &
Music Technology
Email: Stewart Worthy
Phone: 01484 47(3030) or (2004)
Teaching Area
- Sound Recording and Editing
- ProTools
- Computer Composition
Elizabeth Dobson
Admissions Tutor -
Music Technology
Email: Elizabeth Dobson
Phone: +44(0)1484 471890
Teaching Area
- Soundtrack composition: Music and sound design for film, animation, games, related media and the arts.
- Music Technology: Computer Composition
Research Interests
- Interdisciplinary collaboration and undergraduate music composition
- Situated creativity and music composition
- Sociocultural Theory
- Education Action Research
- Soundtrack composition: acoustic and electronic
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Dr Steven Jan
Subject Leader - Music
Email: Steven Jan
Phone: 01484 472143
Teaching Area
- Classical and romantic period musicology (including The Mozart-Da Ponte Operas and Music in Vienna, 1770-1830)
- Music theory and analysis
- Issues and techniques of musicology
- Stylistic composition
- Undergraduate and postgraduate study skills
Research Interests
- The music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven
- The application to music of theoretical and analytical perspectives drawn from evolutionary theory, particularly the 'meme' paradigm first expounded in Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene (Oxford, 1976)
- Music theory and analysis
- computer resources in musicology and music theory and analysis
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Dr Geoffrey Cox
Subject Leader - Music Technology
Email: Geoffrey Cox
Phone: 01484 472006
Teaching Area
- Lecturer in music technology and composition
Research Interests
- Composition, both acoustic and electronic.
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Dr Monty Adkins
Email: Monty Adkins
Phone: 01484 472137
Teaching Area
- Computer Composition
- History and Aesthetics of Electronic Music Interactive Sound Design Dissertation and Individual Project
- Supervision Sonic Art and Installation (MA/PhD)
Research Areas
- Electronica/Electroacoustic Composition
- Sonic Art
- Aesthetics of Digital Music and multimedia Electronic Music Performance Analysis of Electronic Music
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Dr Mary Bellamy
Email: Mary Bellamy
Phone: 01484 473066
Teaching Area
- Composition
- Twentieth Century Musicology
Research Interests
- Composition
- Sound/Video installation pieces
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Peter Birkby
Email: Peter Birkby
Phone: 01226 644258
Teaching Area
- Composition
- Performance
- Music Industry
Research Interests
Mr Mark Bokowiec
Studio Manager
Email:Mark Bokowiec
Phone: 01484 472004
Administrative Role
- Electroacoustic Studio Manager
Research Interests
- Electroacoustic Composition
- Interactive performance systems and environments
- Virtual instrument design
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Professor John Bryan
Head of Music and Drama Department
Email: John Bryan
Phone: 01484 472749
Teaching Area
- Studies in Performance
- Historical Performance Practice
- Renaissance music
- Editing and transcription
- Directs University Choir, Orchestra and Early Music Ensemble
- Chamber music
Research Interests
- The interface between musicology and performance
- Renaissance music and its performance, particularly repertory for voices and viols in sixteenth century Italy and England
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Dr Aaron Cassidy
Email: Aaron Cassidy
Phone: 01484 472011
Teaching Area
Research Interests
- Composition
- Late 20th/21st Century Musicology and Analysis
- Experimental Music
- Post-structuralist theory (memory & complexity theory, theories of space, Deleuze)
- Instrument construction, mechanics, acoustics, and spectral analysis
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Professor Michael Clarke
Email: Michael Clarke
Phone: 01484 472004 or 472424
Teaching Area
Research Interests
- Composition
- Computer music
- Software for music synthesis/processing and education
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Dr Lisa Colton
Email: Lisa Colton
Phone: 01484 472401
Teaching Area
- Musicology
- Medieval music
- Early Music Ensemble (with John Bryan)
- Popular music
- Music and gender
- Research skills and training
Research Interests
- Medieval English music
- Analysis of early music
- Representation of male and female pop stars in the media
- Music and identity
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Dr Graham
Cummings
Email: Graham Cummings
Phone: 01484 472097
Teaching Area
At both undergraduate and postgraduate levels:
- Musicology (including Issues and Techniques of Musicology)
- Baroque period Musicology (including Music in London 1660-1760)
- Performance (both organ and harpsichord)
- Studies in Performance
- Research skills and training
- Editing and Transcription
Research Interests
- The music of G.F.Handel
- The English Baroque 1660-1760
- Opera and Oratorio in 19th century England
- Performance Studies and Historical Performance
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Dr Robert Davies
Email: Bob Davies
Phone: +44(0)1484 471234
Teaching Area
- Music for Moving Image
- Musicology of Production
- Computer composition
- Popular Music and culture
- Research
Research Interests
- Popular Musicology especially genre and funk
- Semiotic analysis of music
- Groove and embodiment
- Musicology of production (sonic signatures)
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Dr Bryn Harrison
Email: Bryn Harrison
Phone: 01484 472402
Teaching Area
- Composition
- Twentieth Century Musicology
Research Interests
- Composition
- British and American Experimental Music
- Music and the Visual Arts
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Professor Liza Lim
Email: Liza Lim
Phone: 01484 471280
Teaching Area
- Composition (MPhil/PhD supervision; MMus seminar)
Research Interests
- Composition (instrumental, contemporary opera/music theatre)
- Collaborative installation work
- Cross-cultural aesthetics (Asian & Australian Aboriginal art, ritual & performance practice)
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Dr David Milsom
Email: David Milsom
Phone: 01484 472143
Teaching Area
- Studies in Performance
- Eighteenth and Nineteenth-century performing practice
- Chamber music
- Nineteenth-century musicology
Research Interests
- Nineteenth and early twentieth-century string performing practice (especially violin performance
- Study of recordings (especially recordings before 1930)
- Historical editions of string chamber music
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Dr Mark Pulman
Email: Mark Pulman
Phone: 01226 644254
Teaching Area
- Popular Music Performance
- Popular Music and Culture
- Music in Education
Research Interests
- Popular music group work rehearsing and performing
- Cultural perspectives of the popular music industry
- Peer learning and assessment in music;
- Philosophy of music education)
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Professor Michael Russ
Dean
Email: Michael Russ
Phone: 01484 472359
Administrative Roles:
- Dean School of Music, Humanities and Media
Research Interests
- Music theory and analysis
- Musicology
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Dr Rupert Till
Email: Rupert Till
Phone: 01484 472141
Teaching Area
- Popular Music Composition, Performance and Musicology
- Computer Composition, Music Technology.
- Music Theory
Research Interests
- Composition
- Popular musicology
- Popular Music Performance
- Ethnomusicology
- Mediaeval Music
- Experimental Music and Minimalism
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Dr Philip Thomas
Email: Philip Thomas
Phone: 01484 471336
Teaching Area
- Studies in Performance
- Performance practice of contemporary music
- Chamber music
- Twentieth century musicology
- Experimental and improvised music
Research Interests
- Experimental music
- Performance of indeterminate music and complex music
- Improvisation
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Dr Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
Email: Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
Phone: 01484 473608
Teaching Area
- Composition
- Improvisation
- Related Technical Skills
Research Interests
- Composition
- Improvisation
- Ensemble Direction
- Performance (Bass Guitar)
- Real-Time Processing
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Professor Barrie Webb
Email: Barrie Webb
Phone: 01484 472820
Research Interests
- Performance (trombone, conducting)
- Contemporary Music
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