Research-active Staff
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John Thwaites
Head of Keyboard
Professor John Thwaites is best known for his collaborative work with strings and as a founder member of the Primrose Piano Quartet. The Primrose have commissioned and recorded important new work by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Anthony Payne, Sally Beamish, Steve Goss and John Casken, and have recorded the earlier twentieth...
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Dr Adam Whittaker
Associate Professor in Music and Head of Pedagogy
Adam is Associate Professor in Music and Head of Pedagogy at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, having previously worked as a Research Fellow in BCU’s CSPACE, and at the University of Nottingham. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is an internationally recognised scholar in musicology and music education, having...
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Dr Michael Wolters
Professor in Composition
Michael Wolters (born 1971 in Mönchengladbach, Germany) has maintained the position of an “other” in the world of contemporary music with works that queer traditional concert and performance situations. He has written music for traditional ensembles like Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and prefers to challenge conventional...
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Professor Ronald Woodley
Emeritus Professor of Music
After graduating with first-class honours from the University of Manchester, specializing in Musical Palaeography and Performance, and with Distinction in clarinet from the Royal Northern College of Music, Professor Ronald Woodley completed his DPhil in 15th-century music theory from Keble College, Oxford. After...
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Peter Wynne-Willson
Early Years Specialist Tutor
Peter is a highly experienced Applied Theatre practitioner, who before taking up his current post has had more than thirty years experience as a writer, director and performer in Young People’s Theatre, Theatre-in-Education and Community Theatre.