Research-active Staff
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Bobbie-Jane Gardner
PostDoctoral Fellow/Research Assistant
Bobbie-Jane Gardner is a composer, arranger, lecturer, producer and music leader. She has received commissions from Uchenna Dance Co., Vocab Dance Co., mac arts, Punch Records, Vivid Projects, Longbridge Public Art Project, LSO Discovery, Sound and Music, Fierce Festival, Grand Union, Heart n Soul, Spitalfields Music and Black...
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Dr Christian Goursaud
Research Fellow
Dr Christian Goursaud is a Research Fellow at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where he works on fifteenth-century music as part of the AHRC-funded project ‘Interpreting the Mensural Notation of Music: An Expert System Based on the Theory of Johannes Tinctoris’ (2017–2021). Current activity includes the preparation of a study...
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Dr Simon Hall
Head of Music Technology
Simon Hall’s musical interests are wide-ranging, which is reflected in his variety of work. He is an active composer, producer, recording engineer and bass trombone player as well as educator. He has worked across a range of genres in a range of capacities, with artists as diverse as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez,...
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Dr Andrew Hamilton
Composition Tutor
Andrew Hamilton was born in Dublin in 1977 and studied in Ireland, England and The Netherlands. His composition teachers included Kevin Volans, Anthony Gilbert and Louis Andriessen. Awards include first prize in the 2001 Opera Prima Europa competition in Rome and the 2002 prize at the 8th International Young Composers Forum in...
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Samuel Harrison-Oram
Doctoral Researcher
Samuel trained at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, the Royal College of Music and at the Wales International Academy of Voice before working internationally as an operatic baritone working with respected operatic and musical theatre companies, most recently making his debut at the Royal Opera House in Saariaho’s Innocence. ...
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Dr Polly Hudson
Reader in Dance
Dr Polly Hudson is a Reader in Dance. She is also Head of Movement at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Acting, and Associate Director for the Centre for Interdisciplinary Performative Arts (CIPA). Polly is a certified teacher of Skinner Releasing Technique. Her practice focuses on process within artistic making, ethical...
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Edmund Hunt
Module Leader for Music Technology Contexts
Edmund Hunt composes instrumental, vocal, and electroacoustic music. He came to composition via a degree in early medieval languages and literature, and his composition PhD (completed in 2018, at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK) investigated creative approaches to early medieval text in contemporary music. Edmund’s music...
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Dr Andy Ingamells
Research Assistant and Visiting Tutor
Andy Ingamells is composer-performer of experimental music. His work is rooted in traditional elements of music making and classical concert conventions but implemented in a different way. Traditional elements such as score-reading, performance and improvisation often do not give way to recognisably musical material. His is a...
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Deborah Mawer
Emeritus Professor of Music
Deborah Mawer was formerly Research Professor of Music and Director of Research at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire; across 2016-19 she led a large AHRC-funded project, entitled ‘ Accenting the Classics: Durand’s Édition classique (c. 1915 - 25) as a French Prism on the Musical Past ’. She joined the Conservatoire in 2013,...
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Dr Paul Norman
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Paul Norman’s composition practice places emphasis on ideas and concepts and includes visual and performative elements in both the composition process and performance. Norman has produced solo projects and interdisciplinary collaborations together with dance, fine art and theatre, showing his work across Europe,...