Staff in the Department of Music
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Staff list
Dr Freida Abtan
f.abtan (@gold.ac.uk)
Freida is an artist and composer, primarily working with samples of both musical and non-musical objects.
Dr Tamsin Alexander
t.alexander (@gold.ac.uk)
Researching the transnational spread of Russian opera in the 19th century, Tamsin focusses on Prague, London and Nice.
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.
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 is currently completing doctoral research at Goldsmiths whilst teaching Music in Film and Media Composition.
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.
Rose Dagul
r.dagul (@gold.ac.uk)
Rose is a songwriter, composer and artist, interested in the visibility of process and making mistakes.
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)
Intersecting sonic arts, soundscapes and acoustics, John’s research is an inquiry into everyday environmental sound.
Dr Dimitris Exarchos
d.exarchos (@gold.ac.uk)
Dimitris is a theorist and musicologist who explores both post-structuralist philosophy and contemporary composition.
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 focuses on contemporary music of all kinds, from fringe ad underground to popular to avant-garde.
John Harries
j.harries (@gold.ac.uk)
John is a producer, performer and composer whose music ranges from improvised noise to detailed electronic pop.
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.
Hugh Jones
music (@gold.ac.uk)
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.
Dr Caroline Kennedy
c.kennedy (@gold.ac.uk)
Caroline is a transdisciplinary artist researching post-capitalist creative practice, songwriting, and creative practice
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.
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)
Keith has written books on Bob Dylan, the music industry, and various articles on music’s place in culture.
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.
Dr 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.
Jeremy Peyton Jones
j.peyton.jones (@gold.ac.uk)
Jeremy is a composer with interests in post-operatic music theatre and the role of narrative and body in performance.
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 is interested in the aesthetics as socio-semiotics of music, and is a composer of experimental music and a performer of music for organ and electronics.
Dr Holly Rogers
h.rogers (@gold.ac.uk)
Holly is interested in the ways in which music interacts with other disciplines and how such combinations are received.
Daniel Ross
d.ross (@gold.ac.uk)
Dan is an algorithmic electro-instrumental composer and performer based in London.
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.
Emma Winston
music (@gold.ac.uk)
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.
