Music
Musicology and Ethnomusicology | Brass | Composition | Guitar | Harp | Jazz | Keyboard | Percussion | Strings | Voice | Woodwind
Musicology and Ethnomusicology
Dr Hazel Hall
Ethnomusicology/World Music –
Dr Ruth Lee Martin
Australian music of the twentieth century to the present; composition; women composers; Australian/Scottish musical connection - the Scottish diaspora; and folk music and Scottish Gaelic music - particularly Gaelic song.
Dr Alistair Noble
Music of Morton Feldman; twentieth century music; composition; music theory from a broad perspective; music of the Classical era.
Mr Bengt-Olov Palmqvist
The development of rhythmic understanding.
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 Angus Charlton
Tuba
Mr Dominic Harvey
Horn
Mr Nathan Ford
Trombone
Mr Daniel Mendelow
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.
Harp
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.
Jazz
Mr Eric Ajaye (Bass)
Performance enhancement techniques; performance psychology; Jazz bass concepts in small ensemble settings from trio, duo and solo performance.
Ms Kristin Berardi (Voice)
Jazz vocal pedagogy; jazz voice composition.
Mr Miroslav Bukovsky (Trumpet)
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)
Jazz vocal pedagogy
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 AM
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.
Ms Susanne Powell
The art of instrumental accompaniment, the art of lieder accompaniment, piano pedagogy, performance psychology.
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
Classical and contemporary percussion solo and chamber , new media music technologies and world music; expanding contemporary repertoire for percussion; percussion by Australian composers, researching and performing the music of Cuba, West Africa; Southeast Asia, and South India; the history of Australian percussion. For more information http://www.garyfrance.com
Strings
Mr Tor Fromyhr (Violin & Viola)
Contemporary string repertoire; the physiometric elements of String technique; motivational issues within the orchestral environment; management structures of performance and educational organizations; string pedagogy.
Miss Barbara Jane Gilby (Violin & Viola)
Orchestral string playing; ensemble performance skills; violin repertoire; performance anxiety; the application of orchestral materials as Etudes.
Mr Max McBride (Double Bass)
Duble Bass music of the
Mr David Pereira (Cello)
String pedagogy, composition, performance/recording of Australian new music for strings.
Voice
Mr Stephen Bennett
Puccini's "Il Tabarro" and "Gianni Schicchi", Wagner's "Tannhauser",
Mr Alan Hicks
Nineteenth and early twentieth century Lieder; melodie and English song; flute and piano duo repertoire.
Ms Louise Page
Woodwind
Ms Megan Billing (Oboe)
Music education and pedagogy; oboe performance, reed making, orchestral playing and repertiore.
Mr Vernon Hill (Flute)
Mr Richard McIntyre (Bassoon)
Bassoon performance, pedagogy, reeds, acoustics, history, musical style; orchestral woodwind style; conducting, orchestral and choral, performance style.
Ms Virginia Taylor (Flute)
Orchestral performance; flute performance; Australian music; historical woodwind performance; flute chamber music.
Mr Alan Vivian
Orchestral, solo and chamber music for clarinet from the classical period to the 21st century. Australian clarinet repertoire. Preparation for auditions and competitions. Clarinet pedagogy with specific reference to tone, articulation and technical development. Bass clarinet techniques.