Staff in the Department of Music
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Staff list
Dr Tamsin Alexander
t.alexander (@gold.ac.uk)
Tamsin is a musicologist, specialising in European musical culture in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Dr Jess Aslan
music (@gold.ac.uk)
Jess is an educator, composer and performer working in computer assisted music performance and production.
Professor John Baily
j.baily (@gold.ac.uk)
John’s principal research interests are ethnomusicology, in performance and film, and music’s relation to migration.
Dr Guy Baron
g.baron (@gold.ac.uk)
Guy conducts practice-based research in music production and works as a singer-producer under the name Semi Precious.
Paul Bartholomew
p.bartholomew (@gold.ac.uk)
A concert and studio arranger, Paul’s musical interests have led to performing with BB King, Barry White and more.
Dr Mira Benjamin
M.Benjamin (@gold.ac.uk)
Canadian violinist, researcher & new-music instigator, specialising in performance of new and experimental music.
Dr Alexis Bennett
a.bennett (@gold.ac.uk)
Alexis researches audiovisual media, and has parallel interests in folk and early music.
James Bulley
j.bulley (@gold.ac.uk)
James Bulley is an artist, curator and researcher whose practice explores locative sound, spatialisation and site-specific installation.
Imogen Burman
i.burman (@gold.ac.uk)
Imogen organises all the performance based activities in the department, including rehearsals, concerts, degree shows and visiting guest artists, performers and lecturers.
Mr Simon Deacon
s.deacon (@gold.ac.uk)
Simon has overseen the development of a performance culture within the Music department and is a founder of NX Records.
Professor John Levack Drever
j.drever (@gold.ac.uk)
Bridging sonic arts, acoustics, soundscapes, ecology and human experience with aural diversity.
Dr Moss Freed
M.Freed (@gold.ac.uk)
Moss is a composer, performer and bandleader with interests in improvisation and social aspects of ensemble performance
Dr Pete Furniss
p.furniss (@gold.ac.uk)
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
i.gardiner (@gold.ac.uk)
Ian is an accomplished composer and orchestral arranger with an interest in Film music in Britain and Media composition.
Dr Iris Garrelfs
i.garrelfs (@gold.ac.uk)
Iris works on the cusp of music, art and sociology across improvised performance, installation and media projects.
Mr Mikko Gordon
m.gordon (@gold.ac.uk)
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
s.graham (@gold.ac.uk)
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)
b.joncus (@gold.ac.uk)
Berta researches the eighteenth-century London stage, European vocal music, European popular music before 1800.
Anneke Kampman
A.Kampman (@gold.ac.uk)
Working across music, text and video, I focus on questions related to commodification, subjectivity and global media.
Dr Caroline Kennedy
c.kennedy (@gold.ac.uk)
Dr Caroline Kennedy is a trans-disciplinary artist, musician-composer and practice researcher
Dr Jenn Kirby
j.kirby (@gold.ac.uk)
Jenn is a composer, performer and music technologist interested in experimental electronic music and instrument making
Dr Maria Krivenski
m.krivenski (@gold.ac.uk)
Maria focusses on the culture of ‘classical’ musical performance – how it is created, transmitted and transformed.
Dr Naomi Matsumoto
n.matsumoto (@gold.ac.uk)
Naomi has scholarly interests in Italian opera, Purcell and Monteverdi and Baroque period performance practice.
Dr Rachel McCarthy
r.mccarthy (@gold.ac.uk)
Rachel is a musicologist, focusing on 21st century music and politics.
Ed McKeon
music (@gold.ac.uk)
Ed McKeon leads the Masters module on Music Management.
Professor Simon McVeigh
s.mcveigh (@gold.ac.uk)
Simon is a musicologist specialising in British musical life 1700-1945, violin music and performance practices.
Professor Keith Negus
k.negus (@gold.ac.uk)
Cultural production, the music industries, and popular music
Joe Newman
j.newman (@gold.ac.uk)
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
b.norton (@gold.ac.uk)
Barley is an ethnomusicologist and filmmaker with research interests in the music and culture of Southeast Asia.
Professor Tom Perchard
t.perchard (@gold.ac.uk)
Tom’s teaching and research centres on the cultural history and historiography of jazz and popular music.
Professor Keith Potter
k.potter (@gold.ac.uk)
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
music (@gold.ac.uk)
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
r.redgate (@gold.ac.uk)
Roger works in jazz, improvised music and film and his compositions have been performed across Europe and the USA.
Dr Lauren Redhead
l.redhead (@gold.ac.uk)
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.
Professor Holly Rogers
h.rogers (@gold.ac.uk)
I am interested in music's convergence with the visual arts.
Ian Stonehouse
i.stonehouse (@gold.ac.uk)
A trained artist, Ian has worked in film, sound, video and animation and is invested in electronic music research.