Staff in the Department of Music

Dr Tamsin Alexander

Tamsin is a music historian, specialising in Russian music and musical culture in the 19th century.

Dr Jess Aslan

Jess is an educator, composer and performer working in computer assisted music performance and production.

Professor John Baily

John’s principal research interests are ethnomusicology, in performance and film, and music’s relation to migration.

Dr Guy Baron

Guy conducts practice-based research in music production and works as a singer-producer under the name Semi Precious.

Paul Bartholomew

A concert and studio arranger, Paul’s musical interests have led to performing with BB King, Barry White and more.

Dr Mira Benjamin

Canadian violinist, researcher & new-music instigator, specialising in performance of new and experimental music.

Dr Alexis Bennett

Alexis researches British musical culture in the 1930s and folk music of Britain and Ireland. He is also a composer and performer.

James Bulley

James Bulley is an artist, curator and researcher whose practice explores locative sound, spatialisation and site-specific installation.

Imogen Burman

Imogen organises all the performance based activities in the department, including rehearsals, concerts, degree shows and visiting guest artists, performers and lecturers.

Rose Dagul

Rose is a songwriter, composer and artist, interested in the visibility of process and making mistakes.

Dr Alex de Lacey

Alex’s work centres on group creativity and live improvisation. His doctoral thesis, entitled Level Up: Live Performance and Collective Creativity in Grime Music, examined crew interactivity and the development of new stylistic tropes in situ at London pirate radio stations and raves.

Mr Simon Deacon

Simon has overseen the development of a performance culture within the Music department and is a founder of NX Records.

Professor John Levack Drever

Intersecting sonic arts, soundscapes and acoustics, John’s research is an inquiry into everyday environmental sound.

Dr Pete Furniss

Pete has performed internationally across a variety of genres, including orchestral and chamber music, a wide variety of contemporary and electronic musics, free improvisation and improvised theatre.

Ian Gardiner, BMus, MA

Ian is an accomplished composer and orchestral arranger with an interest in Film music in Britain and Media composition.

Dr Iris Garrelfs

Iris works on the cusp of music, art and sociology across improvised performance, installation and media projects.

Mr Mikko Gordon

Mikko is a music producer and mixing engineer, who has worked with artists such as Thom Yorke, Pete Townshend and Gaz Coombes. He is responsible for the Goldsmiths Music Studios.

Dr Stephen Graham

Stephen's research theoretically analyses a wide range of current music, from underground to popular and avant-garde.

Dr Berta Joncus, BA (New York), MA (Bonn), DPhil (Oxon)

Berta researches the eighteenth-century London stage, European vocal music, European popular music before 1800.

Hugh Jones

Hugh Jones is a musician and instrument builder who produces music under the name Crewdson. He has released two full solo albums on the Slowfoot Records label and has produced remixes for the likes of Ninja Tune, Lo Recordings, Sunday Best, One Little Indian and Brownswood Records.

Anneke Kampman

Working across music, text and video, I focus on questions related to commodification, subjectivity and the popular.

Dr Caroline Kennedy

Caroline is a transdisciplinary artist researching post-capitalist creative practice, songwriting, and creative practice

Dr Jenn Kirby

Jenn is a composer and performer of experimental electronic music, interested in instrument design and laptop ensemble

Dr Maria Krivenski

Maria focusses on the culture of ‘classical’ musical performance – how it is created, transmitted and transformed.

Dr Naomi Matsumoto

Naomi has scholarly interests in Italian opera, Purcell and Monteverdi and Baroque period performance practice.

Dr Rachel McCarthy

Ed McKeon

Ed McKeon leads the Masters module on Music Management.

Professor Simon McVeigh

Simon is a musicologist specialising in British musical life 1700-1945, violin music and performance practices.

Professor Keith Negus

Keith has written books on Bob Dylan, the music industry, and various articles on music’s place in culture.

Joe Newman

As a guitarist and performer, Joe has toured and recorded with Mercury Prize-nominated artists Jessie Ware, Ghostpoet and Eska, as well as Tom Jones, Miguel and Bilal.

Professor Barley Norton BSc (Mus), MMus, PhD

Barley is an ethnomusicologist and filmmaker with research interests in the music and culture of Southeast Asia.

Professor Tom Perchard

Tom’s teaching and research centres on the cultural history and historiography of jazz and popular music.

Professor Keith Potter

Keith’s present research includes a book on the American composer, Steve Reich; and conference papers, and a journal article, on the Dutch composer, Simeon ten Holt.

Brenda Rattray

Brenda is an Educator, Composer, Performer and Artist. Her specialism is a passion for teaching expressive voice to people in all areas of the community from high profile psychiatric prisons to special schools, Montessori nurseries to the BBC Concert and Symphony Orchestras.

Roger Redgate

Roger works in jazz, improvised music and film and his compositions have been performed across Europe and the USA.

Dr Lauren Redhead

Lauren’s research spans composition, performance and contemporary musicology., with a focuses on the music and aesthetics of the 21st Century and the methodological critique of practice research.

Dr Holly Rogers

I am interested in music's convergence with the visual arts.

Ian Stonehouse

A trained artist, Ian has worked in film, sound, video and animation and is invested in electronic music research.

Emma Winston

Emma is an ethnomusicologist and popular musicologist with particular interests in non-professional musical activity, and the role of the internet and social media in subculture, genre and style.