Staff in Music

I specialise in twentieth-century repertory, analysis, critical theory and aesthetics.

I am a musicologist specialising in German music and culture from c.1870 to 1945. 

I specialize in seventeenth-century Italian singers, singing culture, vocal music and early modern gender construction. My approach to research is interdisciplinary, employing methodologies from art history, critical theory, gender studies, and performance studies.

I am an ethnomusicologist of southern Vietnamese traditional music, creativity, and popular culture.

I am a musicologist specialising in the fields of musical meaning and music analysis.  My scholarly interests stretch from the eighteenth century to the present day and focus on twentieth-century popular music, film music and late eighteenth-century music.

I research electronic dance music scenes (e.g., house, techno, etc.), with a special focus on issues of affect, sexuality, tourism, and the creative industries. My ethnographic fieldwork focuses primarily on Berlin, Germany.

I am a composer, principally of instrumental and vocal music. I have written for a wide variety of forces and genres, from orchestral work and chamber opera to solo work and song.

I am a conductor and educator in choral music and particularly proud to try to bring together all the singers of Birmingham, one of the great international centres of choral endeavour.

My scholarly interests lie in the broad areas of electronic music and sound art, which I research using a mixture of historiographic, philosophical, and ethnographic research methods. I also compose computer music, often incorporating principles from psychoacoustics, music psychology, and cybernetics.

I work on sacred music of the fifteenth century music, which I also direct with my professional vocal ensemble, The Binchois Consort. I teach on a wide range of topics from medieval to popular music and have also had a busy career as a freelance professional violinist.

I am a composer of instrumental and vocal music, interested in timbre and the use of unusual instruments. I teach composition, tonal theory and 18th century counterpoint.

I am a composer, primarily of instrumental and vocal music.  I have written for variety of forces ranging from music for orchestras, choirs and ensembles; to opera and theatre; and more recently, for dance. I am also a passionate collaborator and actively seek out and encourage creative partnerships with practitioners from other disciplines.

I am a composer of electroacoustic music, specialising in acousmatic composition and multichannel audio.

I am a pianist and musicologist. I work on intersections between music, identity, and performance, and on music and musicians in Britain and Ireland during the late nineteenth- and twentieth centuries. As a professional pianist I appear at leading concert halls and festivals in the UK and further afield, and collaborate with both classical and traditional musicians.

My scholarly interests lie in the analysis and criticism of Western art music from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. I aim to preserve and enhance literacy in the traditions of classical music so that people can make sense of this extraordinary heritage. Through music analysis and cultural history I try to understand the techniques and strategies of the leading composers of the tradition ...

I am a musicologist who focuses primarily on music in the British Isles in the later nineteenth century (from about 1850 to 1918), with particular interests in opera and church music.

I am a conductor working with orchestras, ballet and opera companies in repertoire from the baroque through to the present day. As an educator I teach at this University and Birmingham Conservatoire.

I am a jazz drummer, composer/arranger and bandleader performing extensively on the UK Jazz scene. I have released two big band albums to critical acclaim and multiple releases with my contemporary quartet FORJ.

I am Professor of Composition and Electronic Music in the Music Department, where I teach composition and work with Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre (BEAST).

Dr Witek’s main interest is in researching the psychology, cognitive science and cognitive philosophy of musical experience, with a focus on rhythm, timing, emotion and body-movement. Much of her work is centred on trying to understand how dance music experiences and practices emerge from interactions between embodied, neural, musical and social processes. To date, she has focused primarily ...

I am a composer, primarily of multichannel acousmatic electroacoustic music, with a particular interest in the use of real-world sounds.

Late modernist composer of symphonic works, music theatre and new music ensemble works for BCMG, Endymion, Lontano, Arditti Quartet.

I am a musicologist specialising in Italian secular vocal music (opera and chamber cantata) of the late Baroque period, especially Agostino Steffani, and in the music of George Frideric Handel.

I am a specialist in Italian music of the late 16th and early 17th centuries and, in particular, on the music of Claudio Monteverdi. From 2001 to 2011, as Head of Department, I successfully argued for new facilities for University music, drew up an architects’ brief for a new building and led the departmental team during the processes of developing the plans, fundraising, and constructing ...