Academic Staff
Dr Nicholas Bannan Emeritus Professor Sandra Bowdler Winthrop Professor Jane Davidson Brian Dawson Dr Andrea Emberly Dr Robert Faulker Graeme Gilling Kaye Hill Dr Jonathan McIntosh Peter Moore OAM Dr Victoria Rogers Professor Roger Smalley Dr David Symons Dr Chris Tonkin Dr Suzanne Wijsman |
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Dr Nicholas Bannan Qualifications Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Reading) PhD (Reading)
Nicholas Bannan's earliest musical experience was as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral. He went on to study Music at Cambridge University, where he specialised in vocal studies and composition. He has taught in several schools, including Eton College and the Yehudi Menuhin School. He was Director of Music at Desborough School, Maidenhead, where the choir he conducted was in demand to work with London orchestras and made frequent broadcasts on television and radio. He continued to develop his work as a composer, winning the Fribourg Prize for Sacred Music in 1986 and completing commissions for the Allegri and Grieg Quartets, the Guildhall String Ensemble, Cantemus Novum of Antwerp, and the Gentlemen of St Paul's Cathedral. He was for 12 years the conductor of The Esterhazy Singers, a London chamber choir that specialised in performing the music of Haydn and his contemporaries with the period instruments of the Esterhazy Chamber Orchestra. He also directed the contemporary music groups 1913 Ensemble and Act of Creation, and worked on electro-acoustic projects with the composer Rolf Gehlhaar and the Elektrodome company. He was a Winston Churchill Fellow in 1992, travelling through the USA in preparing a report on the training of choral directors and singing teachers.
The evolutionary origins of music; vocalisation in song and language; music in child development; musical creativity; choral direction; musical communication and pedagogy.
Supervising the PhD project of Andrew Snedden (The role of music in Christian Colleges).
2008 ‘Language out of Music: the four dimensions of vocal learning’. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 19 (3): 272-293
1981 String Quartet 1 (Allegri Quartet) Radcliffe Award Commission; Horses of the Night (Collage Ensemble) Southern Arts Commission
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Emeritus Professor Sandra Bowdler
Qualifications BA (Hons) Sydney; PhD ANU
Sandra Bowdler was born in Sydney in 1946, and attended the
University of Sydney, gaining a BA Hons I with University Medal
in Anthropology in 1970. Her honours thesis was based on the
excavation of an Aboriginal shell midden site at Bass Point, on
the south coast of NSW. She was then appointed Tutor in
Prehistory at the University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby,
and taught there from 1971-2. During that period she carried out
archaeological field work in the Papuan Gulf and also on Motupore
Island in Bootless Bay, Port Moresby. In 1973 she was awarded a
PhD scholarship in the Department of Prehistory, Research School
of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University in
Canberra. Her PhD research was based on field work carried out on
Hunter Island in Bass Strait.
Australian Aboriginal and Southeast Asian archaeology; Tasmanian archaeology and history; origins of gender; origins of music; eighteenth century music and history
Indigenous involvement in opera; representations of Tasmanian Aboriginal people in the historical period; Hoabinhian stone tool assemblages of Southeast Asia and Australia
2008 Bowdler, Sandra Pre-Agricultural Peoples, Southeast Asia.
In Deborah M. Pearsall (ed) Encyclopaedia of Archaeology. Vol.1,
pp.809-818. Elsevier/Academic Press, San Diego.
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Winthrop Professor Jane Davidson Qualifications BA (Hons), Newcastle (U.K.); PGCertEd, Lond.; MA & PhD, City (U.K.); PGCertCouns, Keele (U.K.); MA, Leeds
Jane Davidson’s career has spanned the university sector, conservatory education and the music profession. Her interests are in music psychology, music education, musicology, music theatre, vocal performance and contemporary dance. She has written more than 100 scholarly publications and secured a range of research grants. She has worked as an opera singer and a music theatre director, collaborating with performance groups such as Andrew Lawrence-King’s Harp Consort, Opera North, and the Portuguese Company, Drama per musica. After thirteen years at University of Sheffield, Jane began working full-time at the School of Music, University of Western Australia in January 2008.
Jane has taught undergraduate units in Music Theatre and Vocal Performance, Improvisation, Performance Studies, Critical Responses to Music, Topics in the History of Music, Gender in Western Art Music, Psychological Approaches to Performance, Music in the Community, Music Therapy, Development of Musical Ability. She has supervised Honours, Masters and Doctoral theses, teaching associated research training programmes in Music Research Skills, Critique of Research and coordinated Graduate Study Days. She devised the MA Psychology for Musicians (Distance Learning) and MA in Music Theatre Studies for University of Sheffield and co-founded its MA in Psychology of Music. At UWA, Jane coordinates the Master of Music Practitioner Studies, working with several colleagues on course writing and delivery.
For teaching: UWA, FAHSS High Commendation for Teaching (2008); University of Sheffield, Senate Award for Teaching Excellence (2003)
Board member of Staff and Educational Development Association, 1993-6.
Jane Davidson’s research is broadly in the area of performance studies, with four core areas of interest: musical development, expression in performance, music and health, and vocal studies and performance. In the area of musical development, her major output is based on two longitudinal research studies, each running for more than 10 years: study one focused on children showing exceptional skills; study two traced how children develop musical lives and identities, whether or not they persist with instrumental learning. Expressive body movement in musical performance is a central research interest, with topics ranging from the solo classical pianist and the chamber orchestra to Robbie Williams and Annie Lennox. Music and health research has resulted in publications on music therapy interventions with multiple sclerosis patients and a series of investigation into the health benefits of singing. Jane is currently investigating singing interventions for older people, especially those facing social isolation. Vocal research has included an investigation of the effects of the contraceptive pill on the female operatic singer’s voice. Two edited volumes -The Music Practitioner (Ashgate, 2004) and La purpura de la rosa: the staging of an opera, bringing the first Latin-American opera to life (DMLS, 2007) -reveal Jane’s interest in the social psychology of operatic rehearsal and production. • Act, Belong, Commit to Singing: A Healthy Way to Live. 2009, Healthway, $35,000Aus
Books 2007 Davidson, J.W., Trippett, A. (Eds), Bringing the First Latin-American Opera to Life: Staging La purpura de la rosa in Sheffield, Durham Modern Languages Series, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, Great Britain Book chapters 2007 Davidson, J.W., Directing La purpura de la rosa in J.W Davidson, A. Trippett, (Eds), Bringing the First Latin-American Opera to Life: Staging La purpura de la rosa in Sheffield, PP.215-250. Durham Modern Languages Series, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, Great Britain 2007 Davidson, J.W., Trippett, A. Staging an Opera; Sheffield version, in J.W Davidson, A. Trippett, (Eds), Bringing the First Latin-American Opera to Life: Staging La purpura de la rosa in Sheffield, PP.373-375. Durham Modern Languages Series, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, Great Britain 2007 Davidson, J.W., Jordan, N., "Private
Teaching, Private Learning?": An exploration of music instrument
learning in the private studio, junior and senior conservatories in
International Handbook of Research in Arts Education Part 1, Springer, The Netherlands 1995 Davidson, J. W. & Sloboda, J. A., L’ interprète en herbe. In I. Deliège, & J. A. Sloboda (Eds.). Naissance et développement du sens musical, pp 199-221, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. Refereed Journal Articles 2007 Liao, M.Y., Davidson, J.W., 'The use of gesture techniques in children's singing', International Journal of Music Education, 25, 1, pp. 82-96. 2000 Pitts, S.E. and Davidson, J.W. Supporting musical development in the primary school: an English perspective on the Australian band system. Research Issues in Music Education., 14, 76-84. 1998 Davidson, J. W., Howe, M. J. A., Moore, D. M., & Sloboda, J. A. The role of teachers in the development of musical ability. Journal of Research in Music Education, v46(1), 141-160. 1993 Davidson, J.W. Visual perception of performance manner in the movements of solo musicians, Psychology of Music, 21, 103-13. |
Brian Dawson Qualifications B App Sc (Lib Stud)
Brian’s archival and research work at The University of Western Australia began in 2005 when he joined the cataloguing team at the Callaway Centre working on the ARC-funded Preserving Australia’s Sound Heritage. This was followed by another ARC project in 2006/07, Sound Footings, for which he was Project Manager. In 2007/08 he worked with W/Prof Jane Davidson as researcher/writer for Creative State, a TV reality series on opera. In 2008 Brian commenced working on the ARC-funded project Communicative Human Musicality as an Honorary Research Fellow and Project Manager. For much of his career Brian has worked as a music librarian and senior manager at the State Library of Western Australia. Allied to this is his performing arts career in musical theatre, and he has written the book and lyrics to Nostradamus (Perth Concert Hall, 2002) and the lyrics to The Last Maharajah (Hoxton Hall, London, 2008).
Brian’s research interests include archival research techniques, and the life and work of ethnomusicologist John Blacking. He is also researching the evolution of the musical theatre ‘book’ with reference to the works of American dramatist Peter Stone.
A bibliography of the works of John Blacking as part of the Communicative Human Musicality project.
How Organised is Man? The Research Practices of John Blacking (31st National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia, Melbourne, December 2008)
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Dr Andrea Emberly
Ph.D. (Ethnomusicology), University of Washington
Andrea Emberly completed her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at the University of Washington in 2009 where she focused on the musical cultures of childhood in Venda and Pedi cultures in Limpopo, South Africa. Her dissertation explores the intersections of local, national and global influences on children’s musical cultures including community music making, handclapping games, school music curriculums and television programs. She conducted field research in South Africa from 2005-2007 and recently returned to South Africa to collect additional research as a part of the Communicative Human Musicality Project at The University of Western Australia. Andrea is from Alberta, Canada and came to The University of Western Australia in September 2009. In her former life she studied classical trumpet performance at the University of Alberta and Illinois State University. She was inspired to shift her focus to ethnomusicology and now enjoys learning new handclapping games from the around the world and watching Bert and Ernie sing songs in different languages.
Andrea’s research interests include the study of children’s music with special regard to children’s musical cultures in South Africa. She has conducted fieldwork in South Africa since 2005 focusing on children’s musical identities in both Pedi and Venda cultures. In addition to her work in South Africa, Andrea has conducted research on the use of music in children’s “edutainment”, specifically the program Sesame Street and its South African version Takalani Sesame. In addition, Andrea is interested in children’s ethnographies and teaching children to use video and photographic equipment to record and document their own musical histories.
Andrea is working as a part of the Communicative Human Musicality Project focusing on Venda children’s music and revisiting the work of John Blacking.
2010. “Venda Children’s Musical Cultures in Limpopo, South Africa.” In Oxford Handbook of Children’s Musical Cultures. Trevor Wiggins and Patricia Campbell, eds. Forthcoming book chapter. 2010. Book Review: Musical Sense and Meaning: An Indigenous African Perception by Meki Nzewi, Israel Anyahuru, and Tom Ohiaraumunna in The World of Music. 2009. “Mandela went to China … and India too”: Musical Cultures of Childhood in South Africa. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington. 2009. “Children’s Music from the Limpopo Province, South Africa.” 2004. “Examining the Study of Children’s Musical Culture in Ethnomusicology.” United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. www.unesco.org.
2009. “Visualizing Ethnomusicology: Roundtable on the Role of Video in Ethnography.” Borderless Ethnomusicologies - Society for Ethnomusicology, Annual Conference, Mexico City, Mexico. 2009. “Media and Children’s Musical Cultures in South Africa.” HITS: Harnessing Images, Text, and Sound for Education in the Context of Culture, Multimedia, Technology and Cognition Conference. University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI. 2009. “Children’s Musical Cultures in Limpopo: Diversity and Creativity.” AIRS (Advanced Interdisciplinary Research in Singing) Inaugural Conference. University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI. 2008. “The Impact of Media on Children’s Musical Cultures in South Africa.” 2007. The 5th World Summit on Media and Children, Johannesburg, South Africa. 2006. “Finding the Way to Sesame Street: Takalani Sesame and the Musical Landscape of South Africa.” 27th International Society for Music Education World Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2003. “Mediated Music and Childhood.” At the Crossroads - Society for Ethnomusicology, Annual Conference, Miami, Florida. 2003. “Examining the Study of Children’s Musical Culture in Ethnomusicology.”
Aluka Award for Innovative Teaching in African Studies (2008). Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and Analysis Digital Archive Fellowship, Indiana University (2008). The Graduate School Travel Fellowship for Excellence and Innovation, University of Washington (2003, 2008). Huckabay Teaching Fellowship (2007/2008). Doctoral Fellowship – Social Science and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) (2005-2007). Irvine Fellowship, University of Washington (2004). Chester Fritz Fellowship for International Study (2003). Alberta Foundation for the Arts Project Grants (2003, 2005). Milner Music Fellowship, University of Washington (2002). Tim Horton Children’s Foundation Academic Scholarship (2000).
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Dr Robert Faulkner Qualifications PhD (Music) University of Sheffield MA - Distinction (Psychology for Musicians) University of Sheffield PGCE - Postgraduate Certificate of Education (Music) University of Reading GRSM (Hons) (Music) Graduate of Royal Schools of Music. Royal Academy of Music, London. LRAM (Singing – Teaching) Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music, London Biography Robert Faulkner joined UWA School of Music staff in 2006. Apart from his work as a Research Fellow he has also been active in music education undergraduate courses and as tutor for the new Masters degree in Music Practitioner Studies. Previously he played a leading role in music education in Iceland, where he lived for more than a decade, developing national curriculum both in general school music and in community/instrumental music school contexts. Innovative music education work has included children composing and improvising, closing the gap between instrumental and classroom music provision, and the instigation of the first world music performance project of its kind in Icelandic schools - Zimbabwean marimba, mbira, dance and song. He has extensive experience at every level of music education from kindergarden through to adult music education: Head of Music at a London inner city comprehensive; head of a rural community music school in Iceland; part-time lecturer in Music Education at the University of Akureyri and at the Icelandic Academy of Arts in Reykjavik; and Deputy Chair of the Icelandic Music Schools Examinations Board. He has directed both children and adult choirs, notably the male voice choir Hreimur which has sung all over Europe and made several recordings.
Music and everyday life, singing, music education and development, creativity, music teaching and learning, assessment of performance, social psychology of music, Interpretative Phenomenology, multi-disciplinary research methods.
Publications Faulkner, Robert, McPherson, Gary E., Davidson, Jane. (Forthcoming) Music in our lives: Redefining musical development, ability and identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Peter Latham Scholarship Royal Academy of Music University of Western Australia Publication Grant for preparation of monograph -Icelandic Men and Me: Sagas of Singing, Self and Everyday Life - under contract with Wesleyan University Press, USA. Africa on Ice Project Grants and Awards. A range of grants and awards from national partners & sponsors in support of Iceland’s first World Music in Schools project.
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Graeme Gilling Qualifications LRSM
Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, Graeme studied the piano with Iola Shelley - one of New Zealand's foremost pianists - and composition at the University of Canterbury, completing a Bachelor of Music with Honours in Composition. Research/Performance Interests The main focus of his performance activities continues to be on collaborative work, including orchestral, vocal, chamber music and two-piano repertoire. A highlight for 2009 was performing in the WA Symphony Orchestra's first live, streamed internet broadcast of the Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances and the world premiere of James Ledger's Arcs and Planes. Other highlights for 2009 have been well-received orchestral performances with the WA Symphony Orchestra of Stravinsky's Petrushka, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1, a second world premiere, that of James Ledger's Chronicles, as well as of other works such as Richard Strauss's rarely performed Piano Quartet. Graeme is Co-Chair of the biennial WA Piano Pedagogy Convention (a joint venture between the WA Music Teachers’ Association and UWA and is now in its 10th year), as well as Director of the inaugural Keyed-Up! For Summer piano summer school held at UWA in December 2008. This project was a great success and will be held again in 2009, becoming an ongoing annual event for the School of Music.
Blackwood Project – an exciting Australia Council funded collaborative arts project involving piano, voice, clarinet, painter and poet, to premier and be recorded in 2009/10.
Piano/Keyboard Studies, Collaborative Piano and Chamber Music
Various broadcast recordings for ABC Classic-FM, most recently, with soprano Caitlin Hulcup, the Chansons madecasses by Ravel (March 2009) CD's: 1994 - The Young Violinist vol.1 with Graham Wood, violin 1996 - The Young Violinist vol.2 with Graham Wood, violin
1987 - Roger Smalley - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra; Winner of International Rostrum of Composers (Vox Australis; VAST 003-2)
2003 - Roger Smalley - Kaleidoscope (ABC Classics; ABC 980 047-5)
Australia Council grant funding the Blackwood project
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Dr Jonathan McIntosh
Qualifications PhD (Social Anthropology) Queen’s University Belfast
Jonathan McIntosh was educated at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), Northern Ireland, in ethnomusicology, music and social anthropology, and was awarded his PhD in 2007. Jonathan also lectured and tutored on both the QUB Ethnomusicology and Social Anthropology undergraduate pathways whilst a postgraduate student. In addition, he directed several university world music ensembles, including: two Balinese gamelan ensembles (gamelan gong kebyar and gamelan gender wayang), a Balinese dance group (tari lepas), a Central Javanese gamelan ensemble, as well as a Korean percussion group (samul nori). Shortly before leaving QUB, Jonathan received a high recommendation from the Vice-Chancellor of the University for a Balinese masked dance performance (topeng) presented at a Faculty of Arts and Humanities’ Showcase event. Moreover, as a classical performer, Jonathan has held the position of principal flute with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland; he has also performed with Camerata Scotland. In 2006, Jonathan came to The University of Western Australia
to establish the first ethnomusicology programme at any tertiary
institution in Western Australia. In the School of Music, he
coordinates ethnomusicology units which are open to both music
students and students from other degree courses. He also teaches
on the Musicology Honours programme and the Master of Music
Practitioner’s Studies degree. Currently, Jonathan is a
member of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, the
International Council for Traditional Music, the Society for
Ethnomusicology, and National Secretary for the Musicological
Society of Australia.
Jonathan’s research spans the areas of movement, music and power in ethnomusicology and anthropology. Since 2003, he has conducted fieldwork on children’s practice and performance of dance, music and song in Bali, Indonesia, returning most recently in 2008 to research children’s dance competitions. Jonathan also conducts research in the area of applied ethnomusicology, particularly in relation to the use of gamelan in community music settings. He has also acted as a consultant for the Curriculum Council of Western Australia. In 2009, he will conduct a new project focusing upon the musical experiences of Indonesian Australian adolescent boys living in Perth, Western Australia. Current research projects:
2009. The University of Western Australia Research Development Grant: Music in the Everyday Lives of Indonesian Australian Adolescent Boys in Perth, Western Australia: An Ethnomusicological Analysis. AU$12,000 awarded.
Chapters in Books 2010 forthcoming. Performing Emotional Connections in a
Balinese Landscape: Exploring Children’s Roles in a Barong
Performance in Keramas, South-Central Bali. In Performing
Emotions, Gendering Places edited by F. Magowan and L.
Wrazen. Rochester, NY: Rochester University Press. Chapter
accepted for publication 3 September 2009.
2006. Gamelan. In Literacy, Equality and Creativity: Resource Guide for Adult Learners edited by T. Lambe, R. Mark, P. Murphy and B. Soroke. Belfast: School of Education (Lifelong Learning), Queen’s University Belfast, pp. 58-63. ISBN 0853898901.
2010. Dancing to a Disco Beat? Children, Teenagers and the Localizing of Popular Music in Bali, Indonesia. Asian Music (in press, 41/1). 2009. Indonesians and Australians Playing Javanese Gamelan in Perth, Western Australia: Community and the Negotiation of Musical Identities. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 10(2): 80-97. ISSN 1444-2213. 2006. How Playing, Singing and Dancing Shape the Ethnographer: Research with Children in a Village Dance Studio in Bali, Indonesia. Anthropology Matters 8(2): 1-17. Available at http://www.anthropologymatters.com/journal/2006-2/index.htm 2005. Playing with Teaching Techniques: Gamelan as a Learning Tool Amongst Children with Learning Impairments in Northern Ireland. Anthropology in Action 12(2): 12-27. ISSN: 0967-201X.
2007. McIntosh, J., Faulkner, R., and A. Stanberg (eds.). Celebrating Musical Communities: Australian Society for Music Education XVI National Conference Proceedings. Perth, WA: Australian Society for Music Education Inc. (WA Chapter). 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-9803792-0-4.
2010 forthcoming. Book Review: Cravath, P. 2007. 'Earth in Flower: The Divine Mystery of The Cambodian Dance Drama'. International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Newsletter. 2007. Book Review: Boynton, S., and R. Kok (eds.). 2006. ‘Musical Childhoods and the Cultures of Youth’. Ethnomusicology Forum 16(1): 176-9. ISSN 1741-1912. 2006. Website Review: Campagnoli, M. 2005. Baka Pygmies: Culture, Music and Rites of Initiation in the Central African Rainforest. Yearbook for Traditional Music 38: 180-1. ISSN 0740-1558. 2006. Book Review: Reily, S. A. (ed.). 2006. ‘The Musical Human: John Blacking’s Ethnomusicology in the Twenty-First Century’. Ethnomusicology Forum 15(2): 315-8. ISSN 1741-1912. 2005. Book Review: Stige, B. 2002. ‘Culture-Centered Music Therapy’. The World of Music 47(2): 169-73. ISSN 0043-8774. 2004. Multimedia/Collaborative Research: Dance in Bali. DVD and student workbook (with Jungle Run Productions). A three-part documentary on Balinese Dance: Volume 1 ‘Learning the Dance’ and Volume 2 ‘Upon the Sacred Stage’. Ubud, Bali: Jungle Run Productions. Distributed by TMW Media Group. 2003. Book Review: Nettl, B. 2002. ‘Encounters in Ethnomusicology: A Memoir’. The World of Music 45(3): 134-37. ISSN 0043-8774.
2007. The University of Western Australia Supplementary Travel Grant for New Academic Staff. 2002-2005. Queen’s University Belfast Postgraduate Study Scholarship. 2001. Sir Hamilton Harty Music Bursary for Performance Studies, Queen’s University Belfast, UK. 1997/8-1999/2000. James McMorran Bursary Award, Nairn, Highland, UK
In the School of Music, Jonathan coordinates ethnomusicology units open to both music students and students from other degree courses. He also teaches on the Musicology Honours program and the Master of Music Practitioner’s Studies degree. MUSC1010
Music in World Cultures (available semester 1, 2010)
Jonathan is currently supervising musicology honours students as well as postgraduate students. Jonathan would welcome applications from prospective postgraduate students interested in working on music, dance/human movement, ethnography, ethnomusicology, Asian performing arts, community music-making, transnational performance and cross-cultural creativity.
British Forum for
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Dr Victoria Rogers
Qualifications BA, Dip.Ed, M.Phil, PhD (W. Aust), AMusA
Victoria’s main area of research is early to
mid-20th-century music, with a particular focus on Australian
music. Her PhD dissertation was on the music of the Australian
composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks; this research has subsequently
been rewritten as a book entitled The Music of Peggy
Glanville-Hicks, to be published by Ashgate in 2009.
Victoria has also written journal articles on the music of
Glanville-Hicks and has co-edited a book on the work of the
ethnomusicologist John Blacking, entitled The Legacy of John
Blacking: Essays on Music, Culture and Society (to which she
also contributed two co-authored chapters).
Teaching Victoria’s teaching encompasses Western music history, tonal and post-tonal harmonic and structural analysis, Introduction to Research for honours students, and the supervision of honours and postgraduate students.
Rogers, Victoria, The Music of Peggy Glanville-Hicks,
Aldershot: Ashgate, in press.
Australian Postgraduate Award for doctoral study
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Professor Roger Smalley Biography A prominent and versatile figure in contemporary music, Roger Smalley was born near Manchester, England in 1943. At the Royal College of Music, London he studied piano with Antony Hopkins, composition with Peter Racine Fricker and John White, externally composition with Alexander Goehr, and subsequently Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne. Roger’s compositions are performed and broadcast worldwide. Commissions include the BBC, ABC, West German Radio, Festival of Perth, London Sinfonietta, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Australian String Quartet, Grainger Quartet, Fires of London, Flederman, Nova Ensemble, Seymour Group and Australia Ensemble. His works and performances feature on over 20 commercially released CDs, amongst them ABC Classics, Tall Poppies and Melba Recordings. As a young composer, he was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Prize for his orchestral work Gloria Tibi Trinitas. His first Piano Concerto, a BBC commission for European Music Year (1985), was the recommended work in the annual UNESCO Rostrum of Composers in 1987, the first time an ABC entry succeeded to first place. Smalley's orchestral piece Birthday Tango (recently retitled Footwork) received the Australian Classical Music Award 2007 in the category 'Best Composition by an Australian Composer'. As a pianist, Roger Smalley is widely recognised for his performance of contemporary and 18th – 19th century works. Early in his career he was a prizewinner in the Gaudeamus competition for interpreters of contemporary music (1966) and won the Harriet Cohen award for contemporary music performance in 1968. In 1969 Roger and Tim Souster, formed the acclaimed live-electronic group, Intermodulation. Over the next six years Intermodulation toured widely in the UK, West Germany, Poland, France and Iran, repertoire including works by Souster and Smalley, but also works of Cornelius Cardew, Terry Riley, Frederick Rzewski, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Christian Wolff and others. In 1989, Roger became the first Artistic Director and conductor of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra's 20th Century Ensemble, continuing until 2000. In 1991 he received a Creative Development Award from the West Australian Department for the Arts, and elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 1994 he was awarded the Australia Council's prestigious Don Banks Fellowship ‘In Recognition of his Distinguished Contribution to Australian Music'. He received the Australian Government Centenary Medal in 2001 and was proclaimed a Western Australian Living Treasure in 2004. Roger Smalley relocated from Perth to Sydney in 2007. He is Emeritus Professor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia and Honorary Research Associate at The University of Sydney. In 2008, he continues to compose, perform and lecture and has recently written one of the two test pieces for the 2008 Sydney International Piano Competition. Website: www.rogersmalley.com |
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Dr David Symons Qualifications
David Symons is a graduate of The University of Sydney and since 1967 has been a member of the academic staff of The University of Western Australia where he is currently Senior Lecturer in Music. His general area of research is early to mid-20th-century music including Australian music. His PhD dissertation at The University of Western Australia was on the symphonies of Egon Wellesz, and he has published articles and a book (published by Heinrichsofen Books, Wilhelmshaven, Germany in 1997) on this composer. He has also written on the music of the German composer Hans Werner Henze as well as Australian composers David Ahern, Barry Conyngham, James Penberthy, Roger Smalley, Margaret Sutherland and David Tunley. His book, The Music of Margaret Sutherland, was published by Currency Press, Sydney, in 1997, her centenary year. He has also contributed a major article on Australian music composition before 1960 for the Oxford Companion to Australian Music and has completed a similar article for the Companion to Music and Dance in Australia. From 1970-1982 he was Associate Editor of The Australian Journal of Music Education; while from 1980-1984 he was Associate Editor, and from 1985-1992 Co-Editor of Studies in Music, an international musicological journal published at The University of Western Australia. David Symons's teaching at The University of Western Australia has ranged widely from introductory courses in the history of Western music and surveys of music in non-Western cultures to more specialized teaching (including the supervision of postgraduate research) in the areas of nineteenth and twentieth century music, Australian music since federation, tonal and post tonal harmonic and structural analysis and analytical theory. Top of Page |
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Dr Chris Tonkin
Qualifications MMus - Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA PhD - University of California, San Diego, USA Biography Chris Tonkin was born in Perth, Western Australia. He holds degrees in composition from the University of Western Australia, Rice University (Houston, Texas) and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. In 2004/2005, he spent a year at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris, and has since focused on interactive pieces for live performers and computer, developing several works in following years at the Centre for Research in Computing in the Arts in San Diego, California.
Music composition; interactive computer music
Undergraduate composition; supervising 2 Masters students and 1 DMA student in composition; computer music composition
1999 'Three Piano Pieces' (solo piano); Score, Australian Music Centre
2000 ICMC International Composition Competition - first prize for piano pieces "Canopy, Stasis, Ethereal". |
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Emeritus Professor David Tunley Biography Early in his career he received a French Government scholarship to study composition with the celebrated French teacher Nadia Boulanger. He has created various community events such as the York Winter Music Festival which ran for ten years, and more recently the Terrace Proms. He was the founder conductor of the University Collegium Musicum whose annual Christmas Concert is still one of the musical highlights of the year. Recognition of his work has come through the Australian Academy of the Humanities of which he became a Fellow in 1980. He took early retirement in 1994 in order to devote himself more fully to his research and has been an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Music since this time. His most recent publications are 18th century French Cantata (2nd enlarged edition) in 1997 and The Bel Canto Violin: the life and times of Alfredo Campoli, 1906-1993 (1999), François Couperin and 'The Perfection of Music' (2004), William James and the Beginnings of Modern Musical Australia (2007) and in 2001; awarded the Australian Centenary Medal. |
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Dr Suzanne Wijsman Qualifications BMus, BA(hons)-Oberlin (Violoncello and Religion)
Cellist Suzanne Wijsman was born in the USA and received her formal musical education at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, International Cello Centre and the Eastman School of Music. Her cello teachers included Paul Katz, Jane Cowan, Steven Doane and Richard Kapuscinski. She also received a BA with Highest Honors in Religion from Oberlin College, and an MA in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan. Cello students taught by Suzanne Wijsman have won competitions and prizes, and gone on to high level postgraduate studies interstate and overseas, and to perform professionally in leading orchestras and ensembles, such as the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Juniper Chamber Orchestra and Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Equally important, others have gone on to become excellent studio and school teachers in Western Australia and elsewhere.
Cello, String Studies, Chamber Music, Postgraduate supervision
New Grove Dictionary of Music (Macmillan, 2001): articles on Violoncello, Violoncello Fingering, Kraft family, John Gunn, Joseph Lincke Recordings Academic:
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Paul Wright As an exponent of both the modern and the eighteenth century violin, Paul Wright is one of Australia's most versatile instrumentalists. Paul was born in Adelaide in 1959. At the age of 8 he began violin studies with Lyndall Hendrickson and, three years later, was awarded a place at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England. He went on to study at the Guildhall School in London, and in 1978 was accepted as a student at the Juilliard School in New York, where he studied under Ivan Galamian. He has performed with many ensembles in Australia and America including the Australian String Quartet, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and the Carmel Bach Festival Orchestra in California. Paul has been a soloist with many major Australian orchestras since 1989. Since 1991 he has directed Ensemble Arcangelo, an eighteenth century instrumental group based in Perth. In 1990 Paul was appointed as the Geoffrey Robinson Musician-in-Residence at The University of Western Australia. Paul currently holds the position of Coordinator of Strings Studies at the University's School of Music and is an exponent of the violin pedagogy relevant to both modern and earlier instruments. Additionally, Paul performs and records with Ensemble of the Classic Era. Following its third tour for Musica Viva Australia in 1997, the Ensemble continues a full schedule of performances and recordings. The Ensemble's first CD, released on the ABC Classics Antipodes label in 1996, was nominated for the ABC FM Classical Recording of the Year, and received the Soundscapes Editor's Choice Award. Ensemble of the Classic Era's second CD was released in August 1997.Top of Page |