Clusters and Specialisms

We are proud of the high degree of collegiality and mutual support that we have developed within the Conservatoire, across an impressively broad spectrum of practice-based and scholarly research.

Much of our research work, beyond the major Funded Projects, is grouped into clusters, which provide the opportunity for specialists to interact with and enrich each other's work, as well as collaborating with other researchers, performers and organisations across the UK and internationally:

• Composition and Experimental Performance

• Early Music and Sonic Heritage 

• Forum for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Music

• French Music Research Hub

• Integra Lab

• Interdisciplinary Performative Arts

• Jazz Studies

• Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Music

Our historical, critical, editorial and analytical research in music extends over an unusually broad range for the conservatoire sector:

• Medieval theory and notation (Prof Ronald Woodley, Dr Jeffrey Dean and David Lewis: see Funded Projects)
• Early music on stage and screen (REMOSS) (Dr Adam Whittaker)
• French, Italian and British baroque repertories (Dr Shirley Thompson, Dr Carrie Churnside, Dr Siân Derry, Martin Perkins, Prof Graham Sadler)
• French 20th-century music, especially Les Six, Ravel, Messiaen and Jolivet (Prof Christopher Dingle, Prof Deborah Mawer)
• British regional music in the 18th century (Martin Perkins)
• British music criticism (Prof Christopher Dingle)
• British inter-war dance band and post-war jazz (Prof Deborah Mawer)