Music department staff

Academic staff

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Dr David Allinson

Teaching Fellow

Mid-16th century English music, especially the works of Thomas Tallis and Philip van Wilder

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Prof Stephen Banfield

Stanley Hugh Badock Professor, Head of School of Arts

History of music in Britain; music in Bristol and the West Country; Music in the British Empire; History and analysis of stage and film musicals

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Dr Michael Ellison

Lecturer in Music

Composition, contemporary opera, Turkish music, new music, analysis

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Dr Pauline Fairclough

Senior Lecturer in Music

Russian and Soviet music, music criticism, 20th-century Aesthetics, Adorno

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Dr Neal Farwell

Senior Lecturer in Music

Composition, New Music, live electronics and interactivity, semiotics. Director of Electroacoustic Studios and BULO

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Dr Guido Heldt

Senior Lecturer in Music, Head of Education

Film music analysis, the representation of music and musicians in film, British 20th-century art music

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Dr Emma Hornby

Senior Lecturer in Music

Analysis and transmission history of western liturgical chant; medieval orality; rhetoric; liturgy

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Dr Glyn Jenkins

Senior Lecturer in Music

Baroque music, performance, editing; University Organist

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Prof John Pickard

Professor of Composition and Applied Musicology, Head of Subject

Composition, 20th-century British music

General Editor: Elgar Complete Edition

Emeritus staff

Prof Geoffrey Poole

Emeritus Professor of Composition

Composition, modern and postmodern music and thought, application of world traditions

Mr Wyndham Thomas

Research Fellow in Music

Composition, medieval music, General Editor: Ashgate Landmarks series

Prof Raymond Warren

Emeritus Professor of Music

Composition

Support staff

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Megan Holmes

Undergraduate Student Administrator, Music/School of Arts

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Margaret Peirson

Undergraduate Student Administrator, Music/School of Arts

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Jonathan Scott

Studio Manager

Recording techniques, studio production technique

Visiting teaching staff

If your instrument is not listed here or if you do not find details of the relevant teacher above, do please contact the department for further details.

Porters

Department of Music porters

(Left to right) Paul Maynard, Derek Williams, Phil Gould, John Stone