Research Degrees Staff
During your time at the Academy, you will be supported by outstanding teachers who will challenge you to find your own voice.
Head of Postgraduate Studies
Staff
Dr Rubens Askenar
Professor of Composition
Dr Sarah Callis
Senior Postgraduate Tutor
Professor Philip Cashian
Head of Composition
Roderick Chadwick
Associate Professor and Postgraduate Tutor
Dr Jonathan Clinch
Lecturer
Dr Briony Cox-Williams
Postgraduate Tutor & Lecturer in Postgraduate Studies
Dr Edmund Finnis
Professor of Composition
Professor David Gorton
Senior Postgraduate Tutor & Associate Head of Research
Professor Helen Grime MBE
Professor of Composition
Dr Anthony Gritten
Head of Undergraduate Programmes
Dr Roy Howat
Keyboard Research Fellow (Academic Studies)
Professor Elizabeth Kenny
Dean of Students and Professor of Lute and Theorbo
Professor Emily Kilpatrick
Lecturer and Postgraduate Tutor
Professor Daniel-Ben Pienaar
Curzon Lecturer in Performance Studies
Professor David Sawer
Professor of Composition
Professor Nick Smart
Head of Jazz Programmes, Repertoire and Improvisation Tutor
Our Research Community
The Academy is a community of collaborators.
We encourage creative interaction between students and staff, between performers, composers, instrument makers, scholars and practitioners in other art forms, and between the Academy and the wider world.
