Research-active Staff
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Dr Mike Fletcher
Research Fellow
Mike Fletcher is a woodwind multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and researcher who works predominantly in the fields of jazz and improvised music. His research spans jazz, traditional, and improvised music practice, musicology and philosophy. He is a founder committee member of the International Network for Artistic...
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Bobbie-Jane Gardner
PostDoctoral Fellow/Research Assistant
Bobbie-Jane Gardner is a composer, arranger, lecturer, producer and music leader. She has received commissions from Uchenna Dance Co., Vocab Dance Co., mac arts, Punch Records, Vivid Projects, Longbridge Public Art Project, LSO Discovery, Sound and Music, Fierce Festival, Grand Union, Heart n Soul, Spitalfields Music and Black...
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Dr Christian Goursaud
Research Fellow
Dr Christian Goursaud is a Research Fellow at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where he works on fifteenth-century music as part of the AHRC-funded project ‘Interpreting the Mensural Notation of Music: An Expert System Based on the Theory of Johannes Tinctoris’ (2017–2021). Current activity includes the preparation of a study...
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Dr Simon Hall
Head of Music Technology
Simon Hall’s musical interests are wide-ranging, which is reflected in his variety of work. He is an active composer, producer, recording engineer and bass trombone player as well as educator. He has worked across a range of genres in a range of capacities, with artists as diverse as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez,...
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Dr Andrew Hamilton
Composition Tutor
Andrew Hamilton was born in Dublin in 1977 and studied in Ireland, England and The Netherlands. His composition teachers included Kevin Volans, Anthony Gilbert and Louis Andriessen. Awards include first prize in the 2001 Opera Prima Europa competition in Rome and the 2002 prize at the 8th International Young Composers Forum in...
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Samuel Harrison-Oram
Doctoral Researcher
Samuel trained at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, the Royal College of Music and at the Wales International Academy of Voice before working internationally as an operatic baritone working with respected opera companies in the UK and Europe, most recently making his debut at the Royal Opera House in Saariaho’s Innocence. ...
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Dr Polly Hudson
Associate Professor in Dance
Polly is a Reader in Dance, and Head of Movement at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. As an artist-scholar Polly’s practice engages with process within artistic making, ethical embodied approaches to teaching and leadership, and EcoSomatics, with a current focus on working class women’s labour of the body and on the land. ...
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Edmund Hunt
Module Leader for Music Technology Contexts
Edmund Hunt composes instrumental, vocal, and electroacoustic music. He came to composition via a degree in early medieval languages and literature, and his composition PhD (completed in 2018, at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK) investigated creative approaches to early medieval text in contemporary music. Edmund’s music...
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Dr Andy Ingamells
Research Assistant and Visiting Tutor
Andy Ingamells is composer-performer of experimental music. His work is rooted in traditional elements of music making and classical concert conventions but implemented in a different way. Traditional elements such as score-reading, performance and improvisation often do not give way to recognisably musical material. His is a...
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Dr Chris Marshall
Associate Professor in Professional Development
Dr Chris Marshall is Associate Professor in Professional Development at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, helping students plan their futures, untangling the business of music and preparing for successful portfolio careers. He has devised and taught modules on many aspects of professional development and music production at...