B E N J A M I N   D W Y E R    composer | guitarist | writer

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    RESEARCH & TEACHING

    lecturing at the Ribeirão Preto Biennale

    Brazil, 2013.

    photo: Brian Kavanagh

    RESEARCH & SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

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    • Irish art music from 1700 to present (social, political, historical, postcolonial contexts)

    • Intersections of performance and compositional methods and practice

    • The music of György Ligeti

    • The music of Benjamin Britten

    • Interdisciplinary/multimedia collaboration

    • Improvisation through interdisciplinary/multimedia collaborations

    • Classical guitar performance with an emphasis on 20th- and 21st-century music

    • Music and myth

    • Music and literature

    • Music and critical theory (esp. feminist and postcolonial)

    • Philosophy and practice of free improvisation

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    TAUGHT PROGRAMMES & MODULES (MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY)

    • Advanced Performance & Musicianship (MUS3012)

    • Post-1950s Music (MUS3076)

    • Independent Projects (MUS3055)

    • Performance II (MUS2951 / MUS3051)

    • Performance Practice (MUS2052 / MUS3052)

    • Collaborative Performance and Composition (MUS2060 / MUS3060)

    Teaching: Middlesex University

    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)

     

    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’

    • Kristina Ammattil (Ma by Research): The Third Eye of Performance within Western Classical Vocal Pedagogy