RESEARCH & TEACHING

lecturing at the Ribeirão Preto Biennale

Brazil, 2013.

RESEARCH & SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

Irish art music from 1700 to present (social, political, historical, postcolonial & intercultural contexts)
Intersections of performance and compositional methods and practice
Interdisciplinary/multimedia/intercultural collaboration
Improvisation through interdisciplinary/multimedia/intercultural collaborations
Music and critical theory (esp. feminist, intercultural & postcolonial)
Philosophy and practice of free improvisation
Classical guitar performance with an emphasis on 20th- and 21st-century music
Music and myth
Music and literature
The music of György Ligeti
The music of Benjamin Britten

RESEARCH SUPERVISION (MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY)

as Director of Studies (lead supervisor):

Garth Knox (ArtsD): ‘The Extension of Contemporary String Techniques through Performer-informed Composition’
Joel Sharbaugh (PhD): ‘Twelve Tones on Six Strings: The Guitar Music of the Schola Fiorentina'
Mei Yi Foo (ArtsD): ‘Performer as Creator – Recreating Piano Recital Programmes’
Siobhán Armstrong (PhD): ‘Reconstructing the Lost Narratives of the Medieval Irish Harp’
Michael Haas (PhD by Published Works): ‘Restoration/Restitution: The Cultural Vandalism of the Nazis—Prohibitions, Exile, Extermination'
David Etheridge (PhD): 'A Musicological Assessment of the Music of Barry Grey in Jerry Anderson's Thunderbirds TV Series and Films (1964-1986)'
Kristina Ammattil (MA by Research): 'The Third Eye of Performance within Western Classical Vocal Pedagogy'
Reuben Ard (Masters by Research): 'Homesteader to Jazz: A Study of Music in Kansas 1850-1930'

as Second Supervisor:

Kevin Skelton (PhD): 'Transdisciplinarity, Precarity, and the State of Opera: Implications for the Pedagogy and Practice of Integrative Performing Artists'
Simon Limbrick (PhD): ‘Percussion and Three-Dimensional Space’
Richard Craig (PhD): ‘The Recontextualisation of the Composer and the Performer in Contemporary Music’
Andreas Olaf Friesecke (PhD): 'Improving Particular Components of the Audio-signal Chain'
Darren Hanley (PhD by Published Works) : 'The Role of Creativity in Music Education in England'
Greg Gottlieb (MA by Research): ‘The Earl May Project – Writing the Mirror Image Double Bass Method’
Tina Mahondas (MA by Research): 'India and the West: Identity, Imperialism, and Cultural Symbiosis'

TAUGHT PROGRAMMES & MODULES (MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY)

Teaching: Middlesex University