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Gareth Thomas

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Overview
  • BMus Academic Lecturer
  • Birmingham Conservatoire
  • Faculty of Performance, Media & English
  • Email: gareth.thomas@bcu.ac.uk
  • Phone: c/o +44 (0)121 331 5901

Areas of expertise

  • Music History, especially C19th and C20th British and Russian music

Current Activities

Teaching

  • C19th history
  • The Symphony after Beethoven
  • Analysis
  • Harmony and Aural Skills

Research

  • The aesthetic of Modernism in British music 1910-30

Qualifications

PhD (Musicology)
MA (Music, Culture & Politics)
BMus Hons (Music)

Publications
  • ‘Modernism, Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes in London 1911-1929’ in: British Music and Modernism, 1895-1960 (ed. Riley) Ashgate, 2010.

Other Public Outputs

  • 2006: Lecture series and pre-concert talks as part of the LSO Discovering Shostakovich season, Barbican and St Luke’s

  • 2005: Pre-concert talk Symphony Hall, Birmingham on Rachmaninov’s The Bells

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