People

Head of Music and Professor of Electroacoustic Music

Specialisms include: Acousmatic music composition; live and interactive electroacoustic music; diffusion practice.

Lecturer in Ethnomusicology

Specialisms include: music of South Asia and the South Asian diaspora (including North Indian classical music); gender; music analysis; improvisation; affect; ways of theorising listening and listeners.

Professor of Ethnomusicology

Specialisms include: Corsica/the Mediterranean; Georgia (Caucasus); voice; protest song; music revivals; intangible cultural heritage; cultural tourism; politics of world music.

Professor of Interactive Music Composition

Specialisms include: Live Interactive Media with a focus on game-engines and Machine Learning. In the entrepreneurial space, he founded KeepItHuman(.org), a spin-out company using video games as a transformative medium to engage the public with sustainability.

Professor of Music

Specialisms include: Baroque keyboard music; English music theory 1600-1800; Handel; Beethoven; manuscript studies; editorial techniques; child composers.

Lecturer in Jazz Studies

Specialisms include: jazz, improvisation studies, topics in popular music, music in the Balkans, music theory and cognition.

Professor of Music History and Aesthetics

Specialisms include: Music in 19th-century German thought and culture; aesthetics; music and politics.

Lecturer in Music

Specialisms include: New Complexity in Britain; the new music ensemble; new music reception, historiography and methodology; representations and materialities of listening (intersections between popular music studies and sound studies).

Professor of Musicology

Specialisms include: Purcell and seventeenth-century English music; creativity in early modern music; early modern manuscript and print cultures; ontological issues relating to Baroque music; Baroque performance practice; English music theory 1580-1730. Professor Herissone was made a Fellow of The British Academy in 2019, one of the highest distinctions in the humanities.

Senior Lecturer in Music Analysis

Specialisms include: the analysis, reception history, and editing of nineteenth-century instrumental music; music theory and analysis; the music of Franz Schubert and his Viennese contemporaries; the analysis and theorisation of sonata and variation forms; music temporality, and the intersection between music history, philosophy and analysis.

Lecturer in Music

Specialisms include: musical form in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; music theory and analysis; Jean Sibelius and Nordic music; critical theory.

Research Associate, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Specialisms include: social history of music, opera studies, methodology of musicological research and repertoire studies

Professor of Music

Specialisms include: Composition, contemporary music (especially Ligeti, Nancarrow, Birtwistle, Boulez and Xenakis), piano music and orchestration.

Professor of Music / Head of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Specialisms include: Music of the 15th/16th and the 18th/19th centuries. In the Renaissance period, his main focus has been on word-music relationships and in the materiality, creation and transmission of polyphonic sources. In the Classical/Romantic period, his focus has been on Felix Mendelssohn, with editions of the major symphonies for the composer's Complete Edition.

Senior Lecturer in Composition

Specialisms include: Composition; contemporary music; performance; contemporary music performance.

Professor John Casken held the following positions:

- Emeritus Professor of Music. Professor of Music at The University of Manchester, 1992 to 2008.
- Doctor of Civil Law, honoris causa, University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2011.
- Doctor of Music, honoris causa, University of Birmingham, 2011.

Professor David Fallows held the following positions:

- Emeritus Professor of Musicology.
- Taught at The University of Manchester, 1976 - 2011.
- Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Republique Francaise), 1994.

Professor of Music

Specialisms include: Shostakovich; Nielsen; Weinberg; 20th-century symphony; piano performance, especially chamber repertoire.

Professor Philip Grange held the following positions:

- Emeritus Professor of Composition.
- University of Manchester Professor of Composition, 2000-2020.
- University of Exeter Professor of Composition, 1989-2000.
- Fellow in the Creative Arts, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1985-1987.
- Northern Arts Composer Fellow, Durham University, 1988-1989.

Professor of Social and Autoethnographic Composition

Specialisms include: Composition; contemporary music; electroacoustic music; experimental and postmodern music; film music.

Professor Susan Rutherford held the following positions:

-Emerita Professor of Music.
-Visiting Research Fellow at The University of Cambridge.