Music Staff, Distinguised Visiting Scholars and Performance Forces at University of Manchester, UK
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Dr Rebecca Herissone |
Dr David Berezan |
Dr Caroline Bithell |
Dr Ricardo Climent |
Prof. Barry Cooper |
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Head of Music; |
Senior Lecturer in Electroacoustic Composition |
Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology |
Senior Lecturer in Electroacoustic Composition |
Professor of Music |
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Prof. David Fanning |
Dr James Garrat |
Prof. Phil Grange |
Dr Kevin Malone |
Dr Camden Reeves |
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Professor of Music |
Senior Lecturer in Music and University Organist |
Professor of Composition |
Senior Lecturer in Composition |
Senior Lecturer in Composition |
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Dr Susan Rutherford |
Dr Laura Tunbridge |
Dr Richard Whalley |
Dr Hettie Malcomson |
Dr Roddy Hawkins |
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Senior Lecturer in Music |
Senior Lecturer in Music |
Lecturer in Composition |
Lecturer in Ethnomusicology |
Teaching Fellow |
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EMERITUS PROFESSORS |
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Professor John Casken
Emeritus Professor of Music. Professor of Music at the University of Manchester from 1992 to 2008 |
Doctor of Civil Law, honoris causa, University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2011 Doctor of Music, honoris causa, University of Birmingham, 2011 |
Professor David Fallows
Emeritus Professor of Musicology. He taught at the University of Manchester from 1976 to 2011 |
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Republique Francaise), 1994 | |||
DISTINGUISHED VISITING SCHOLARS |
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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Composer C.B.E. Patron of Manchester University Music Society © John Batten, with permission |
Professor Gerald Bennett
Download his keynote speech at the opening of the NOVARS Research Centre in 2007. Click here
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Dr Jeffrey Dean
Dr Dean’s research is focused on the theory and practice of music in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, especially sacred music in the period 1450–1550. |
Professor Edward Gregson
Internationally acclaimed composer and former Principal of the Royal Northern College of Music. |
Professor Douglas Jarman
Formerly Professor in Musicology at the RNCM, he is one of the foremost scholars on the music of Alban Berg. |
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Dr Rachel Swindells
Dr Swindells specialises in the music of West Java and holds the post of Gamelan & Community Projects Officer at the Hallé. |
Mr John Turner
John Turner is an eminent recorder player and ensemble director, an important advocate of new music and an editor and publisher. |
Dr Michael Kennedy C.B.E.
Dr Kennedy is one of the world’s most highly respected and widely read musicologists, and is particularly known for his work on Elgar and Vaughan Williams. |
Dr Colin Matthews O.B.E. Dr Matthews is an internationally distinguished composer and currently holds the post of Composer in Association with the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester. |
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PERFORMANCE
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String Quarter in Residence (The Quatuor Danel) |
Contemporary Ensemble in Residence -(Psappha) |
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Marc Danel, violin; Gilles Millet, violin
Vlad Bogdanas, viola; Guy Danel, cello |
Specialising in the performance of music by living composers and that of the 20th and 21st centuries, Psappha was formed in 1991 by its Artistic Director Tim Williams. |
List of teachers and numbers of lessons supported |
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Manchester University New Music Ensemble (Vaganza) |
MANTIS-in-Motion |
Trio ATEM |
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Highlights over recent years have included performances of Stockhausen’s Kreuzspiel, Philip Grange’s As it was, Birtwistle’s Silbury Air and Gérard Grisey’s Partiels, Per Nørgård’s Night-Symphonies, Day Breaks and John Casken’s Vaganza. Gilles Millet, violin
Vaganza's name is a homage and pays tribute to composer and Emeritus Professor of Music John Casken |
Our always evolving Live electronics ensemble is a key platform for composers to explore the combination of acoustic instruments and electronics. In the recent past we had KAIROS electronic Ensemble (performance across UK 2006-08), Bling This Story (Manchester 208-09), MANTIS Showreels with concerts in Germany, Thailand, Hong Kong etc, and MANTIS-in-Motion with sound diffusion concerts all around the world |
Trio Atem: Gavin Osborn (flute), Nina Whiteman (voice), Alice Purton (cello) started residency at the NOVARS Research Centre in 2009 and actively support teaching across Music, at University of Manchester |
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