Department of Music staff
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Staff list
Dr Freida Abtan
f.abtan (@gold.ac.uk)
Freida’s music falls between musique concrete, noise and experimental audio, using spectral manipulation and samples.
Dr Patricia Alessandrini
p.alessandrini (@gold.ac.uk)
Patricia is a composer creating multimedia and interactive work that engages the concept of concert music repertoire.
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.
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 has led to performing with BB King, Barry White and more.
Alexis Bennett
a.bennett (@gold.ac.uk)
Alexis is currently completing doctoral research at Goldsmiths whilst teaching Music in Film and Media Composition.
Dr Lisa Busby
l.busby (@gold.ac.uk)
Lisa embraces ‘availablism’ and a DIY approach to feminism and gender activism in sound and music.
Mr Simon Deacon
s.deacon (@gold.ac.uk)
Simon has overseen the development of a performance culture within the Music department and 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.
Danny Driver
d.driver (@gold.ac.uk)
Concerto soloist and recitalist, Danny is known internationally for the quality of his performances and recordings.
James Ewers
j.ewers (@gold.ac.uk)
A singer, songwriter and composer, James has performed at major music festivals and teaches on the BMus Popular Music.
Dr Dimitris Exarchos
d.exarchos (@gold.ac.uk)
Dimitris is a theorist and musicologist who explores both post-structuralist philosophy and contemporary composition.
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)
As Head of the Goldsmiths Music Studio, Mikko has worked as producer and engineer Atoms for Peace, Gaz Coombes and more.
Dr Stephen Graham
s.graham (@gold.ac.uk)
Stephen’s interest is piqued by contemporary music, including the underground, experimental and popular.
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.
Ms 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.
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.
Dr 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.
Keith Potter
k.potter (@gold.ac.uk)
Keith’s present research work includes books on the American composers Earle Brown and Steve Reich.
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 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.
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.