RESEARCH & TEACHING
Lecturing at the Ribeirão Preto Biennale, Brazil, 2010
RESEARCH & SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY
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The music of György Ligeti
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Irish art music from 1700 to present (social, political, historical, postcolonial & intercultural contexts)
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Intersections of performance and compositional methods and practice
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Improvisation through interdisciplinary/multimedia/intercultural collaborations
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Music and critical theory (esp. feminist, intercultural & postcolonial)
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Philosophy and practice of free improvisation
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Classical guitar performance with an emphasis on 20th- and 21st-century music
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Music and myth
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Music and literature
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The music of Benjamin Britten
Guitar masterclasses at the Conservatorio A. Scarlatti (Palermo) 2022
RESEARCH SUPERVISION (MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY)
as Director of Studies (lead supervisor):
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Garth Knox (ArtsD): ‘The Extension of Contemporary String Techniques through Performer-informed Composition’
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Joel Sharbaugh (PhD): ‘Twelve Tones on Six Strings: The Guitar Music of the Schola Fiorentina'
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Mei Yi Foo (ArtsD): ‘Performer as Creator – Recreating Piano Recital Programmes’
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Siobhán Armstrong (PhD): ‘Reconstructing the Lost Narratives of the Medieval Irish Harp’
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Michael Haas (PhD by Published Works): ‘Restoration/Restitution: The Cultural Vandalism of the Nazis—Prohibitions, Exile, Extermination'
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David Etheridge (PhD): 'A Musicological Assessment of the Music of Barry Gray in Jerry Anderson's Thunderbirds TV Series and Films (1964-1986)'
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Kristina Ammattil (MA by Research): 'The Third Eye of Performance within Western Classical Vocal Pedagogy'
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Reuben Ard (Masters by Research): 'Homesteader to Jazz: A Study of Music in Kansas 1850-1930'
as Second Supervisor:
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Kevin Skelton (PhD): 'Transdisciplinarity, Precarity, and the State of Opera: Implications for the Pedagogy and Practice of Integrative Performing Artists'
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Simon Limbrick (PhD): ‘Percussion and Three-Dimensional Space’
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Richard Craig (PhD): ‘The Recontextualisation of the Composer and the Performer in Contemporary Music’
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Andreas Olaf Friesecke (PhD): ‘Improving Particular Components of the Audio-signal Chain'
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Darren Hanley (PhD by Published Works) : 'The Role of Creativity in Music Education in England'
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Greg Gottlieb (MA by Research): ‘The Earl May Project – Writing the Mirror Image Double Bass Method’
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Tina Mahondas (MA by Research): 'India and the West: Identity, Imperialism, and Cultural Symbiosis'
New Pathways in Improvisation @MDX 2021 Lecture
'Towards a Transcendental Philosophy of Improvisation'
The Irish Compositional Summer School 2021 Lectures (as Guest Director)
No 1: Language into Music - Tackling Beckett
No 3: SacrumProfanum
No 2: On Improvisation
No 4: Homenaje - The Hommage