RESEARCH & TEACHING

RESEARCH & SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY
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Irish art music from 1700 to present (social, political, historical, postcolonial contexts)
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Intersections of performance and compositional methods and practice
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The music of György Ligeti
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The music of Benjamin Britten
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Interdisciplinary/multimedia collaboration
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Improvisation through interdisciplinary/multimedia collaborations
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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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Music and critical theory (esp. feminist and postcolonial)
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Philosophy and practice of free improvisation

TAUGHT PROGRAMMES & MODULES (MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY)
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Advanced Performance & Musicianship (MUS3012)
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Post-1950s Music (MUS3076)
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Independent Projects (MUS3055)
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Performance II (MUS2951 / MUS3051)
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Performance Practice (MUS2052 / MUS3052)
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Collaborative Performance and Composition (MUS2060 / MUS3060)
Teaching: Middlesex University
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 Grey in Jerry Anderson's Thunderbirds TV Series and Films (1964-1986)
as Second Supervisor:
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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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Kristina Ammattil (Ma by Research): The Third Eye of Performance within Western Classical Vocal Pedagogy