MPhil & PhD in Music

Current PhD Students and their topics

Ricardo Brafman: Acoustic Composition “The Influence of Fieldwork in Pernambuco, North Eastern Brazil, on my Compositional Work”

Jennifer Brand : Musicology “Winds of Change: Wind Instrument Design and the Changing Sound of British Orchestras between c.1890 and c.1950”

Tsai-Wei Chen: Sound Art “Mapping Sojourners’ Soundscapes – Listening Experiences of Taipei Sojourners in London”

David Cline: Music Analysis “Morton Feldman”

Stephen Foster : Historical Musicology “To entertain the fancy”; the orchestral concert song in England 1740-1800”

Rachel Foulds: Russian Music Studies “The Paradox of Galina Ustvolskaya”

Eun-E Goh: Performance “The Limits of Interpretation”

Margaret Gotoh: Musicology “The Reception of English Musical Culture in Germany in the Late Enlightenment”

Stephen Graham: Contemporary Music Studies “Experimental Music in the Twenty-First Century: non-notated "classical music" and non-popular "popular music" ”

Coady Green: Performance/Russian Music Studies “Russian Piano Etudes”

Andri Hadjiandreou: Performance

Grenville Harding: Acoustic Composition

Ruth Hawkins: Sound Art “Interpenetrations of Recordings and the Real”

Ryan Hepburn: Contemporary Music Studies “John Adams's "On the Transmigration of Souls" and Steve Reich's "Daniel Variations": contextual, hermeneutic and
musical analyses of two post-9/11 musical responses to Islamic extremism and as simulacra for American post-9/11 personal, public and commercial visual culture”

Ju-Lee Hong: Musicology “Cello Performing Traditions on Record: An Empirical Analysis”

Anna Kounadi: Performance “Analysing Skryabin Performances on Record”

Sebastian Lexer: Performance “Technical Developments of Interactive Music Systems”

Christopher Mabley: Music Analysis “Secret Codes and Ciphers in the Music of Anton Webern”

Anastasios Mavroudis: Performance “Greek Music for Solo Violin/Violin and Piano”

Alexander Mcintyre: Music Analysis/Russian Music Studies “Music and Ideas of Nikolai Roslavets”

Andriana Minou: Performance/Contemporary Music Studies “Jani Christou”

Maja Mitrovich: Acoustic Composition

Terry Monaghan: Popular Music Studies “The Relationship of Jazz Music and Jazz Dance with Special Reference to the Savoy Ballroom 1926-1958”

Drosostalitsa Moraiti: Performance/Russian Music Studies “Evolution of Alfred Schnittke’s Piano Music”

Kathryn Mosley: Musicology “A Critical Edition of Cadenzas for the Piano Concertos of Beethoven by Various Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Composers”

Elena Nalimova: Performance/Russian Music Studies “Piano Music by Galina Ustvolskaya”

Manolis Neophytou: Performance/Russian Music Studies “Russian Piano School Traditions”

Magdalini Nikolaidou: Performance/Russian Music Studies “Rakhmaninov’s Etudes-Tableaux and Old Russian Church Traditions”

Argyro Pavlopoulou: Ethnomusicology “Cretan Music”

Debra Pring: Musicology “Representation of the Recorder and its Music”

Cameron Pyke: Russian Music Studies “The Creative Response of Benjamin Britten to Russia”

Indioney Rodrigues: Music Analysis “Rhythm and Metrics in 20th Century Music”

Katherine Sandys: Sound Art “Space and Place as Sublime Encounter”

Dario Sarlo: Musicology “ Fritz Kreisler”

Dawn Scarfe: Sound Art “In the Surround – Sound and Phenomenal Experience”

Adrian Sledmere: Popular Music Studies “The Concept of Talent and the Music Industry”

Emmanuel Spinelli: Studio Composition “Acoustic Phenotypology – The territory of the disembodied voice in electro-acoustic music and the perception of Acousmatic Identities”

Stamatia Statherou: Acoustic Composition

Nikolas Stavlas: Performance/Contemporary Music Studies “Kagel's Ludwig Van”

Jasmine Taylor: Popular Music Studies “Billie Holiday: Musician”

Monica Todd: Musicology “Conducting: An Examination of Gender Politics and Musical Authority”

Rebecca Turner:  Performance “Modern Technique and Aesthetics in the Twentieth-Century Solo Cello Music”

Klimis Voskidis: Performance/Historical Musicology “Liszt's and Thalberg's Piano Transcriptions of Belcanto Operas”

Sally Watkins: Ethnomusicology “A Musical Ethnography of the Band of the Coldstream Guards”

Tara Wilson: Russian Music Studies /Music Analysis “Russian Minimalism”

Richard Witts: Musicology “A Historical Study of BBC Music Policy with Particular Reference to Radio 3”

Huei Ju Wu: Performance/Historical Musicology “Vocal Performance Traditions in Selected Mozart Arias”

Mizuka Yamamoto:  Performance/Contemporary Music Studies “John Cage and Philip Glass”

PhD Composers:
Robert Ainsley
Dimitrios Bakas
Rob Canning
Thanos Chrysakis
Christopher Halliwell
Polly Hewitt
Ryo Ikeshiro
Jeremy Keenan
Wocjiech Kosma
Matthew Lewis
Chun Ming Lu
Coreen Morsink
Paul Sarcich
Charalambos Sophocleous
Jerry Wigens
Matthew Wright