Music

Musicology and Ethnomusicology

Mr Bengt-Olov Palmqvist
The development of rhythmic understanding.

Mr Christopher (Adam) Chapman
Ethnomusicology; issues of indigenous aesthetics and approaches to textual composition; relationship between song melody and lexical tone; syntactic behaviour of Lao expressives; transnational production and consumption of music across the Lao diaspora; impact of recording and digital technologies upon music-making and consumption as well as social and cultural scapes.

Ms Deborah Crisp
Nineteenth century romanticism in music; musical culture in nineteenth century Australia; music and film.

Dr Bradley Cummings
Music style and compositions of Don Banks; early writings of Sir Donald Francis Tovey; 20th century and current music analysis.

Dr Hazel Hall
Ethnomusicology/World Music – India, Korea, Japan; performance wellness.

Dr Ruth Lee Martin
Scottish Gaelic music - particularly Gaelic song; Australian music of the twentieth century to the present; women composers; Australian/Scottish musical connection - the Scottish diaspora; and folk music.

Ms Susan West
Primary and secondary music; social and therapeutic aspects of music-making; music, enculturation and life-long engagement.

Dr Stephen Wild
Ethnomusicology; Australian Indigenous music and indigenous music of the South Pacific.

Brass

The Brass Area researches: commissioning of new works for brass; new interactions with technology; improvisation; identifying target audiences; live brass performance relevance; fostering and sponsoring youth music discovery; strengthening cross-institutional collaborations in brass performance; composition; arranging; business strategizing; investigating professional linkages programs with the music industry; brass pedagogy in ensemble conducting, direction and organization; pedagogy in brass schools’ music programs.

Mr Dominic Harvey
Lecturer, Horn

Mr Charles MacInnes
Visiting Lecturer, Trombone

Mr Daniel Mendelow
Lecturer, Trumpet

Composition

Mr Jim Cotter
Australian composers of the second half of thetwentieth century; history of electronic music forms of late ninteenth century to today; relationships between textiles and music; Chinese music.

Guitar

Mr Timothy Kain
Commissioning and working with Australian composers on the development, performance and recording of new works; all aspects of classical guitar performance.

Jazz

Mr Eric Ajaye (Bass)
Performance enhancement techniques; performance psychology.

Ms Kristin Berardi (Voice)
Jazz vocal pedagogy; jazz voice composition.

Mr Miroslav Bukovsky (Trumpet)
Jazz pedagogy; jazz pedagogy; jazz trumpet techniques; jazz composition and composing commissions for Ten Part invention and Wanderlust to world audiences; fusion of world music with jazz.

Mr James Greening (Trombone)
Nature of interplay in a group of improvising musicians; link and similarities in the improvised melodies of jazz improvisers and traditional folk music of different cultures (eg.Hungarian folk, Gypsy, Carnatic Indian and Australian Indigenous music).

Mr Colin Hoorweg (Drums)
All elements of jazz drumming and world related rhythms; jazz history.

Mr Vince Jones (Voice)
Associate Lecturer, Voice

Mr John Mackey (Saxophone)
Improvisation; effects of playing on the human body; uncertainty principles.

Mr Mike Price (Guitar)
Coexistence of duple and triple rhythms and subdivisions and their implication to contemporary jazz time feel; synthetic scales and their harmonic possibilities on the guitar.

Mr Matt Thompson (Piano)
Jazz piano, particularly piano trio – Peterson, Evans, Jarrett, Mehldau, Terrasson and Rubalcaba; composition and the creative process; relaxed and effective piano technique.

Keyboard

Dr Geoffrey Lancaster
Historically-informed Classic era keyboard performance practice; late-eighteenth century aesthetic trends and the music of Joseph Haydn; the keyboard sonatas of Joseph Haydn; the fortepiano in the Classic era; late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century basso-continuo.

Mr John Luxton
Vocal accompaniment particularly Lied and French Chanson; piano pedagogy; French piano literature.

Ms Susanne Powell
Beethoven violin and piano sonatas; the art of instrumental accompaniment; the art of Lieder accompaniment; piano chamber music.

Professor Larry Sitsky
Australian 20th century piano concert music; early 20th century Russian avant garde; aspects of romantic Russian music; Ferruccio Busoni.


Mr Arnan Wiesel
Instrumental and keyboard music of JS.Bach; the musical dance form of the Baroque period; keyboard music of CPE Bach; piano works of WA Mozart; Israeli music.

Percussion

Mr Gary France
Percussion and technology: world music; Cuba, Caribbean; tracing the evolution of the rhythms from West Africa; expanding contemporary repertoire for percussion; percussion by Australian composers; percussion instrument construction in Southeast Asia, Africa and South India; the history of Australian percussion.

Strings

Mr Tor Fromyhr (Violin)
Contemporary string repertoire; the physiometric elements of String tchnique; motivational issues within the orchestral environment; management structures of performance and educational organizations.

Ms Barbara Jane Gilby (Violin & Viola)
Orchestral string playing; ensemble performance skills; violin repertoire; performance anxiety; the application of orchestral materials as Etudes.

Ms Alice Giles (Harp)
Healthy harp playing (Feldenkrais & Alexander techniques applied to harp playing); electronic music/electro-acoustic harp; all aspects of harp performance, in different genres; and competition preparation.

Mr Max McBride (Double Bass)
Duble Bass music of the Viennese School of the 18th Century (c.1730 – 1805)

Mr David Pereira (Cello)
String pedagogy, composition, performance/recording of Australian new music for strings.

Mr Julian Smiles (Cello)
Visiting Lecturer

Voice

Mr Stephen Bennett
Puccini's "Il Tabarro" and "Gianni Schicchi", Wagner's "Tannhauser", Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffman" and Rossini's “The Barber of Seville”.

Mr Alan Hicks
Nineteenth and early twentieth century Lieder; melodie and English song; flute and piano duo repertoire.

Ms Celina Lindsley
Operatic performance practices/styles; German Lieder: performance practice/style/question of priorities: text versus music;full singing versus loud singing; singers' diction acoustical and aesthetical properties.

Woodwind

Ms Megan Billing (Oboe)
Music education and pedagogy; oboe performance, reed making, orchestral playing and repertiore.

Mr Richard McIntyre (Bassoon)
Bassoon performance, pedagogy, reeds, acoustics, history, musical style; orchestral woodwind style; conducting, orchestral and choral, performance style.

Ms Virgina Taylor (Flute)
Orchestral performance; flute performance; Australian music; historical woodwind performance; flute chamber music.

Mr Alan Vivian (Clarinet)
New and challenging repertoire commissions and performance practices.