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

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: