Birmingham Conservatoire : Student Research

Student Research

Papers and Results Below is a selection of student dissertations, past and current.

Student Research

Paul Bambrough – PhD (PT)
Title: Towards An Interpretation of The Schubert Song Cycles: Analysis, Reflection and Performance
Email: Paul Bambrough
David Baltuch – MPhil (PT)
Title: Syntax of the Gestural Discourse in Choral and Orchestral Conducting
Email: David Baltuch
Website: http://users.skynet.be/BALTUCH/
Ed Bennett – PhD (FT and Bursary)
Title: Composing for Disparate Media
Email: Ed Bennett
Website: www.edbennett.co.uk
Darquise Bilodeau – PhD (PT)
Title: The Influence of the Poetic Texts on the Song-writing of Gabriel Fauré
Email: Darquise Bilodeau
Paolo Boggio – PhD (Distance learning)
Title: “The Stained-Glass Island” – Composition for Large Orchestra
Email: Paolo Boggio
James Bullock – PhD (PT)
Title: Musical Composition and Performance: Computer-Based Systems for the Real-Time Abstraction and Classification of Perceptual Features from Continuous Audio
Email: James Bullock
Website: www.postlude.co.uk
Susan Cannon – MPhil (PT)
Title: Composing for Orchestral Idioms
Email: Susan Cannon
Galina Crothers – PhD (PT)
Title: Heinrich Neuhaus. His Life and Work
Email: Galina Crothers
Simon Cummings – PhD (PT)
Title: Composition
Email: Simon Cummings
Website: www.simoncummings.com
Jeremy Filsell – PhD (PT)
Title: Une Caresse pour L'Oreille: A Contextual and Analytical Study of the Organ Music of Marcel Dupré
Email: Jeremy Filsell
Claudio Forcada – MPhil (PT)
Title: Violin Pedagogy and Motor Learning
Email: Claudio Forcada
Website: www.claudioforcada.com
Tony Harris – PhD (PT)
Title: The Creative Legacy of Cornelius Cardew
Email: Tony Harris
Website: www.tonyharris.org.uk
Sara Hubrich – PhD (PT)
Title: Music and its Theatrical, Dramatic and Visual Aspects in Performance
Email: Sara Hubrich

Dmitry Kormann – PhD (PT)
Title: "Hydrosphere": Feng Shui, Fractal Proportions, Golden Ratio, Evolving Loops and Irrationality Applied to the Development of a Symphonic Work
Email: Dmitry Kormann
Website: www.aicaramba.com

George-Emmanuel Lazaridis – PhD (PT)
Title: Messenger: A Contemporary Opera
Email: George-Emmanuel Lazaridis

Joanna Lee – PhD (FT)
Subject: Contemporary Vocal Composition and Vocal Extended Techniques
Email: Joanna Lee
Website: www.joannalee.co.uk

Simon Lesley – PhD (PT)
Title: Concerto for Bass Guitar: The Bass Guitar in the Contemporary Classical Context
Email: Simon Lesley

Trevor Lines – MPhil (PT)
Title: New Composition in English Traditional Folk Music
Email: Trevor Lines

Andrew Mayes – PhD (PT)
Title: Aspects of Performance Practice in Recorder Works Composed for Carl Dolmetsch between 1939 and 1989
Email: Andrew Mayes

Mel Moore – PhD (PT)
Title: Liminality: Exploring the Transitional Space Between English/Irish Aspects of Personal Identity Through Music
Email: Mel Moore

Paul Nevins – MPhil (PT)
Title: The Trumpet in the United Kingdom from the Death of Queen Victoria to the Festival of Britain
Email: Paul Nevins
Website: www.merciabrassacademy.com

Timothy Perkins – PhD (PT)
Title: 'Meta V.' …A Surreal Journey Through the Landscape of String
Email: Timothy Perkins

Andrew Portas – MPhil (PT)
Title: The Mermaid’s Pool: Acoustic and Electronic Musical Composition
Email: Andrew Portas

Adrian Powney – PhD (FT and Bursary)
Title: Finding the Time: Aspects of Time Signatures and Tempo in the Music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Email: Adrian Powney

Nick Redfern – PhD (PT)
Title: 'Cloud Factory': A Cyclical Folio of Musical Compositions
Email: Nick Redfern
Website: www.nickredfern.co.uk

Roberto Trillo – PhD (PT)
Title: The violin Music of Tomas Marco: Context and Analysis
Email: Roberto Trillo

Older dissertations

2007

Jonathan Girling, The Ice Palace – A Concerto for Violin and Large Orchestra (PhD).
Email: Jonathan Girling
Julian Hellaby, Musical Performance: A Framework for Analysis (PhD).
Email: Julian Hellaby

2006

Jonathan Day, Aveiia: The Politics of Navigation (PhD).
Clement Jewitt, Aspects of the Night Sea Crossing: A project to Create an Extended Song Cycle (Phd).
Email: Clement Jewitt
Website: www.composersalliance.com

2005

Hinton, Eric, The Art and Craft of Conducting the Wind Orchestra (PhD)

2004

Linda Merrick, Collaboration Between Composers and Performers: Recent British Clarinet Concertos (PhD)
Hong, Yu Lee, Tempo and Timing Fluctuation in Violin Performances (MPhil)

2003

Tearnan, Gregory, Symphony No.4: An Investigation into the Interplay of Serial and Tonal Techniques in Composition (PhD).
Hong, Ju Lee, Musical Expression in Performance: An Analysis of Recorded Performances of J.S. Bach's from the C major Cello Suite BWV1009 (MPhil)

2002

Marsh, John, Songs of Earth and Heaven (PhD).
Hellier, Ruth, The Viejitos Dance as Ideological and Political Tool in Post-Revolution Mexico, 1920-1940 (PhD).

2000

Floyd, Malcolm, Music in Enculturation and Education: A Maasai Case Study (PhD).

1999

Tanner, Mark, An Investigation into the 20th Century Performance Practice of Liszt's B minor Sonata (PhD).

1995

Carlton, Malcolm, Symphonic Composition in an Electronic Medium (PhD).