Research & Knowledge Exchange Staff
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.
Composition
Hans Abrahamsen
Oliver Knussen Professor of Composition
Dr Rubens Askenar
Professor of Composition
Professor Philip Cashian
Head of Composition
Professor Pete Churchill
Professor of Jazz Voice, Composition and Arranging / Repertoire and Improvisation
Dr Philip Dawson
Supporting Studies (Composition & Contemporary Music)Dr Louise Drewett
Lecturer in Composition
Dr Edmund Finnis
Professor of Composition
Professor David Gorton
Senior Postgraduate Tutor & Associate Head of Research
Stephen Goss
Professor of Guitar Chamber Music and Musicianship
Professor Helen Grime MBE
Professor of Composition
Morgan Hayes
Professor of Composition
Dr Alex Hills
Lecturer in Analysis and Contemporary Music (Academic Studies)
Aaron Holloway-Nahum
Supporting Studies (Composition & Contemporary Music)Professor David Sawer
Professor of Composition
Musicology
Dr Sarah Callis
Senior Postgraduate Tutor
Roderick Chadwick
Associate Professor and Postgraduate Tutor
Dr Jonathan Clinch
Lecturer
Dr Briony Cox-Williams
Postgraduate Tutor & Lecturer in Postgraduate Studies
Professor David Gorton
Senior Postgraduate Tutor & Associate Head of ResearchDr Anthony Gritten
Head of Undergraduate Programmes
Professor Neil Heyde
Head of Postgraduate Programmes
Dr Alex Hills
Lecturer in Analysis and Contemporary Music (Academic Studies)Dr Roy Howat
Keyboard Research Fellow (Academic Studies)
Professor Timothy Jones
Deputy Principal
Professor Emily Kilpatrick
Lecturer and Postgraduate Tutor
Dr Jennifer Sheppard
Lecturer and Co-ordinator of Contexts for PerformanceDr Alyn Shipton
Jazz Research Fellow and Lecturer in Jazz History
Dr Robert Sholl
Lecturer
Dr Jackie Walduck
Lecturer (Open Academy and Academic Studies)
Julian West
Head of Open Academy
Performance
Roderick Chadwick
Associate Professor and Postgraduate TutorProfessor Margaret Faultless
Becket Chair of Historical Performance, Lecturer
Dr Adriana Festeu
Lecturer (Academic Studies), Head of Year
Olwen Foulkes
Lecturer in Academic Studies
Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood CBE
Principal
Stephen Goss
Professor of Guitar Chamber Music and MusicianshipProfessor Neil Heyde
Head of Postgraduate ProgrammesAaron Holloway-Nahum
Supporting Studies (Composition & Contemporary Music)Professor Elizabeth Kenny
Dean of Students and Professor of Lute and Theorbo
Professor Joanna MacGregor CBE
Dame Myra Hess Chair of Piano
Professor Daniel-Ben Pienaar
Curzon Lecturer in Performance Studies
Dr Nazrin Rashidova
Violin Teacher (Junior Academy), Postgraduate Programmes (Academic Studies)
Dr Carla Rees
Professor of Low Flutes & Contemporary Flute, BMUS Head of Year, Foundation Year Course Leader
Peter Sheppard Skærved
Museum Research Fellow and Viotti Lecturer in Performance Studies
Professor Nick Smart
Head of Jazz Programmes, Repertoire and Improvisation Tutor
Professor David Titterington
Head of Organ
Nicholas Walker
Lecturer in Academic Studies
Honorary Research Fellows
Kathryn Adamson
Honorary Research FellowDr George Biddlecombe
Honorary Research FellowDr Edward Blakeman
Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Timothy Bowers
Honorary Research FellowProfessor Emeritus Raymond Holden
Honorary Research Fellow, Emeritus Professor of Music
Dr Zubin Kanga
Honorary Research Fellow
Gerard McBurney
Honorary Research Fellow
Professor Iain Quinn
Honorary Research Fellow
Christopher Redgate
Honorary Research Fellow
Professor Emeritus Robert Saxton
Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Olivia Sham
Honorary Research Fellow
Janet Snowman
Honorary Research FellowSioned Williams
Honorary Research Fellow
Research Degrees Staff
Our research degrees are aimed at performers and composers with highly developed skills and focused career aspirations.
