PhD Research Degrees

Our Conservatoire PhD research degree will help you create opportunities to develop research skills that support performance, composition or a scholarly career.

The Conservatoire PhD is offered full-time (3 years) or part time (4-7 years). It is supported by a team of supervisors who have a wide range of specialisms and expertise including:

• Composition
• Music Technology
• Performance Studies
• Musicology
• Performing Arts

Post-2014 Conservatoire PhD Awards

2017

• Paul Norman: Unprotected Practice: Including Process as Compositional Material
• Simon Cummings: Cloud Triptych: An Exploration of Stochastic Movement between Discrete Musical Behaviours
• René Mogensen: Typology of Relations between Acoustic Instruments and Electronics in Concert Music: An Analysis and Composition-based Approach
• Edmund Hunt: 'The Difference Between Us': Using Early Medieval Northern European Texts in the Creation of a Work for Instrumental Ensemble

2016

• Joanna Szalewska-Pineau: Performing Szymanowski: A Pianist's Perspective
• Adam Whittaker: Musical Exemplarity in the Notational Treatises of Johannes Tinctoris (c.1435-1511)
• Tychonas Michailidis: On the Hunt for Feedback: Vibrotactile Feedback in Interactive Electronic Music Performances
• Christian Goursaud: The Neapolitan Presentation Manuscripts of Tinctoris’s Music Theory: Valencia 835 and Bologna 2573
• Fang Fang: Echoes of Chinese Folksong: Degrees of Integration and Separation in the Use of Pre-existing Regional Chinese Folksong and Composed Material
• Hans Koller: Twelve Reinventions for George Russell: The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization as a Transformative Tool in Contemporary Composition
• Darquise Bilodeau: Gabriel Fauré and I'organisation du mouvement: Poetic prosody and Rhythmic Continuity in the Songs (1861-1921)

2015

• James Dooley: Sounding the Environment: Research through Composition Exploring the Interplay of Space and Place in Musical and Installation Works
• Joanna Lee: Dramatic Vocal Composition Combining Lyrics Singing with Extended Vocal Techniques
• Susan Cannon: Anubis - Triptych of Orchestral Works

2014

• Sara Hubrich: The Creative Embodiment of Music - Practice-Based Investigations into Staged and Embodied Interpretations of Instrumental Music (Volumes l and II)
• Claudio Forcada-Delgado: Good Practice in Violin Pedagogy: Psychological Aspects Related to the Acquisition of Motor Skills
• Tim Perkins: Metta Vee: A Stylistic Journey Through a Landscape of String
• David S. Baltuch: Orchestral Conducting Since 1950: A Comparative Analysis of Conducting Manuals, Practitioners’ Testimonies and Two Orchestral Performances
• Andrew Thomas: Journeys to Recover the Future
• Christos Noulis: Somatic Education and Piano Performance