People
We attract the very best talent and our staff are both international and internationally recognised.
Our inspiring academics can give our students first-hand access to cutting-edge research and real-world knowledge to take with them after graduation.
Head of subject
Academic staff
Dr Chloë Alaghband-Zadeh
Lecturer in Ethnomusicology
Specialisms include: music of South Asia and the South Asian diaspora (including North Indian classical music); gender; music analysis; improvisation; affect; ways of theorising listening and listeners.
Professor David Berezan
Professor of Electroacoustic Music
Specialisms include: Acousmatic music composition; live and interactive electroacoustic music; diffusion practice.
Professor Caroline Bithell
Professor of Ethnomusicology
Specialisms include: Corsica/the Mediterranean; Georgia (Caucasus); voice; protest song; music revivals; intangible cultural heritage; cultural tourism; politics of world music.
Dr Joshua Brown
Lecturer in Composition
Specialisms include: composition; contemporary music; collaborative and community music; music and mathematics; and performance.
Dr Eleanor Chan
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Specialisms include: Early modern music; visual culture; material culture; musical notation; history of the book; intellectual history.
Professor Ricardo Climent
Professor of Interactive Music Composition
Specialisms include: Live Interactive Media with a focus on game-engines and Machine Learning. In the entrepreneurial space, he founded KeepItHuman(.org), a spin-out company using video games as a transformative medium to engage the public with sustainability.
Professor Barry Cooper
Professor of Music
Specialisms include: Baroque keyboard music; English music theory 1600-1800; Handel; Beethoven; manuscript studies; editorial techniques; child composers.
Professor Mine Doğantan-Dack
Professor of Music Performance Studies
Specialisms include: artistic research in music performance; phenomenology of live performance and artistic pianism; chamber music performance practices; embodiment and affect as epistemic tools in performance research; music analysis and performance; aesthetic of performance; 19th-century theories of music performance; performative discourses in the history of music theory; the role of the artist-researcher in higher education.
Professor David Fanning
Professor of Music
Specialisms include: Shostakovich; Nielsen; Weinberg; 20th-century symphony; piano performance, especially chamber repertoire.
Dr Alessandra Palidda
Research Associate, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Specialisms include: social history of music, opera studies, methodology of musicological research and repertoire studies
Dr Pete Furniss
Lecturer in Music
Specialisms include: music performance, improvisation and experimental practice (clarinet), embodied research, pedagogy, 4E cognition and neurodiversity.
Dr Alexander Gagatsis
Lecturer in Jazz Studies
Specialisms include: jazz, improvisation studies, topics in popular music, music in the Balkans, music theory and cognition.
Dr Roddy Hawkins
Lecturer in Music
Specialisms include: New Complexity in Britain; the new music ensemble; new music reception, historiography and methodology; representations and materialities of listening (intersections between popular music studies and sound studies).
Professor Rebecca Herissone
Professor of Musicology
Specialisms include: Purcell and seventeenth-century English music; creativity in early modern music; early modern manuscript and print cultures; ontological issues relating to Baroque music; Baroque performance practice; English music theory 1580-1730. Professor Herissone was made a Fellow of The British Academy in 2019, one of the highest distinctions in the humanities.
Dr Anne Hyland
Senior Lecturer in Music Analysis
Specialisms include: the analysis, reception history, and editing of nineteenth-century instrumental music; music theory and analysis; the music of Franz Schubert and his Viennese contemporaries; the analysis and theorisation of sonata and variation forms; music temporality, and the intersection between music history, philosophy and analysis.
Prof Kevin Malone
Professor of Social and Autoethnographic Composition
Specialisms include: Composition; contemporary music; electroacoustic music; experimental and postmodern music; film music.
Dr Sarah Moynihan
Lecturer in Analysis
Specialisms include: musical form in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; music theory and analysis; Jean Sibelius and Nordic music; critical theory.
Dr David Onac
Lecturer in Harmony and Contemporary Music Studies
Specialisms include: composition, tonal harmony, piano performance, jazz & gospel (particularly harmony and improvisation), arrangement.
Dr Evanthia Patsiaoura
Lecturer in Ethnomusicology
Specialisms include: Nigerian gospel music; spirituality and popular culture; sound and body in congregational music-making; African Pentecostalism in translocal perspective; multi-sited ethnography and epistemology; fieldwork in Brazil, Greece, Nigeria, the UK and social media.
Professor Camden Reeves
Professor of Music
Specialisms include: Composition, contemporary music (especially Ligeti, Nancarrow, Birtwistle, Boulez and Xenakis), piano music and orchestration.
Professor Thomas Schmidt
Professor of Music / Head of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Specialisms include: Music of the 15th/16th and the 18th/19th centuries. In the Renaissance period, his main focus has been on word-music relationships and in the materiality, creation and transmission of polyphonic sources. In the Classical/Romantic period, his focus has been on Felix Mendelssohn, with editions of the major symphonies for the composer’s Complete Edition.
Dr Rosalía Soria Luz
Lecturer in Composition for Interactive Media and Film
Specialisms include: Electroacoustic music composition (live interactive media and fixed media for the moving image), use of algorithms and mathematical models in music composition and EA music for broader audiences.
Dr Richard Whalley
Senior Lecturer in Composition
Specialisms include: Composition; contemporary music; performance; contemporary music performance.
Dr Hannah Yip
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Specialisms include: early modern music; visual culture; material culture; history of the book; history of emotions; early modern manuscript and print cultures; ecclesiastical history; Reformation studies.
Simon Industrial Fellows (International Jazz Artists in Residence)
Emeritus professors
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Professor John Casken
Professor John Casken held the following positions:
-Emeritus Professor of Music. Professor of Music at The University of Manchester, 1992 to 2008.
-Doctor of Civil Law, honoris causa, University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2011.
-Doctor of Music, honoris causa, University of Birmingham, 2011.Read more
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Professor David Fallows
Professor David Fallows held the following positions:
-Emeritus Professor of Musicology.
-Taught at The University of Manchester, 1976 - 2011.
-Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Republique Francaise), 1994.Read more
Professor Philip Grange
Professor Philip Grange held the following positions:
- Emeritus Professor of Composition.
- University of Manchester Professor of Composition, 2000-2020.
- University of Exeter Professor of Composition, 1989-2000.
- Fellow in the Creative Arts, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1985-1987.
- Northern Arts Composer Fellow, Durham University, 1988-1989.-
Professor Susan Rutherford
Professor Susan Rutherford held the following positions:
-Emerita Professor of Music.
-Visiting Research Fellow at The University of Cambridge.Read more
Honorary Professors and Research Fellows
Sir Mark Elder
Honorary Professor
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Dr Jeffrey Dean
Honorary Research Fellow
Helena Bull
Honorary Research Fellow
Daniel Mawson
Honorary Research Fellow
Non-academic Staff
- Mark Woolstencroft Martin Harris Centre Manager and External Relations Manager
mark.woolstencroft@manchester.ac.uk - Nathan Mannion Martin Harris Centre Receptionist
nathan.mannion@manchester.ac.uk - Karl Spencer Technical Services Manager
karl.a.spencer@manchester.ac.uk - Guillaume Dujat Music Technician
Music.Technician@manchester.ac.uk - Emma Rayner Music Administrator
music.administrator@manchester.ac.uk