Academic Staff

David Smith

Professor David Smith
Head of Music

Research Interests: Peter Philips; early keyboard music from England and the Netherlands; consort and lute music; Early Modern musical networks; Scottish music manuscripts

Web: www.davidjsmith.org.uk

d.j.smith@abdn.ac.uk
+44 (0)1224 274737

  Ms Chris Aldred
Teaching Fellow
Music and Communities

Research Interests: Improvement in community learning and development practice especially professional development and standards; adult learning and literacies; online learning and development of learning communities; multidisciplinary working and partnership.
c.aldred@abdn.ac.uk
(+44)1224 274642
Jasmin Cameron

Dr Jasmin Cameron
Senior Lecturer in Music

Music Research Co-ordinator

Research Interests: Sacred Italian and German music of the late baroque and classical periods; analysis; rhetoric and music, editing.

jasmin.cameron@abdn.ac.uk
+44 (0)1224 274598

Edward Campbell

Dr Edward Campbell
Lecturer / Depute Head of Music

Research Interests: Historical, analytical and aesthetic approaches to European modernism; the music and writings of Pierre Boulez; compositional approaches in post-1945 Europe; contemporary European opera; music aesthetics/philosophy of music; music theory in 20th century France; music in relation to French intellectual culture of the 20th century; the interrelation of music, philosophy, theology, literature and visual arts..

e.campbell@abdn.ac.uk
+44 (0)1224 274612

 
Dr Phillip Cooke
Lecturer in Composition

Research interests: composition; contemporary music; British music; the 'English Musical Renaissance'; contemporary choral music, the music of Herbert Howells


www.phillipcooke.com
p.cooke@abdn.ac.uk

(+44)1224 274599


  Mr Chris Gray
Teaching Fellow

Programme Director, BMus (Hons) Music and Communities.


Research Interests: Creating communities within orchestral and choral settings. The training of young musicians in Opera.

Web: ictus-music.co.uk

chris.gray@abdn.ac.uk
(+44)1224 274684
Frauke Jürgensen

Dr Frauke Jürgensen
Lecturer in Music

Student Performance Co-ordinator

Research Interests: Historical performance practice, history of theory, Renaissance compositional practice, computational musicology, vocal performance..

f.jurgensen@abdn.ac.uk
+44 (0)1224 274683


Dr Suk-Jun Kim
Lecturer in Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art

Research interests: Electroacoustic music; sound art and installation; emerging technologies in sound and image; new interfaces and performance; phenomenology of sound; public sound installation; analysis of electroacoustic music and listening; listening and technology; sonification and its implications.

www.reddoorsound.com

s.kim@abdn.ac.uk
+44 (0)1224 274618

Alistair Macdonald

Mr Alistair Macdonald
Associate Teaching Fellow

Research Interests: 19th century opera.

alistair.macdonald@abdn.ac.uk
+44 (0)1224 274650

Paul Mealor

Professor Paul Mealor
Professor of Composition

Research Interests: Composition; contemporary music; world music.

Web: www.paulmealor.com

p.mealor@abdn.ac.uk
+44 (0)1224 274603

Geoff Palmer

Dr Geoff Palmer
Lecturer in Music

Research Interests: Composition, 20th Century and Contemporary Music, Microtonality.

Web: geoffpalmercomposer.com

g.palmer@abdn.ac.uk
+44 (0)1224 274633

Jonathan Stephens

Prof Jonathan Stephens
Professor of Music and Music Education

Research Interests: Composition; contemporary music; Music and arts education; curriculum development; creativity; improvisation and composition in the music curriculum.

j.p.stephens@abdn.ac.uk
+44 (0)1224 274558

Pete Stollery

Prof Pete Stollery
Professor of Electroacoustic Music and Composition

Admissions Selector for Music

Research Interests: Acousmatic composition and performance; soundscape composition; sound art; creative aspects of music technology in education; musical intelligence; musical ability.

Web: www.petestollery.com

p.stollery@abdn.ac.uk
+44 (0)1224 274601