Education & Academia
Higher Education Sector
Course Leader for MA Popular Music Practice at BIMM Bristol
I have taught in…
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Leeds Conservatoire (formally Leeds College of Music)
Middlesex University
UCF
Dartington College
I have a wide range of teaching and lecturing experience both in 1-1 and group situations and I have taught extensively in the areas of performance, composition, technology, improvisation, and cultural theory.
Education
Doctorate
2011 - 2018
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
MA
2004-2005
Royal academy of music
BA
1998 - 2001
Leeds Conservatoire (FKA Leeds College of Music)
Lectures, Papers & Projects
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
What is Improvisation?
Lecture, Birmingham Conservatoire, Mar 2016
Total Sound Objects
Lecture at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, July 2016
Indeterminacy, the Aleatoric and Improvisation
Lecture, Birmingham Conservatoire, Mar 2014
My Compositional Methodology
Paper, Birmingham Conservatoire Research day, 2013
Leeds College of Music
Unusual Compositional Strategies
Leeds College of Music, lecture series throughout 2016
Indeterminacy, the Aleatoric and Improvisation
Lecture Recital, Leeds College of Music, Dec 2013
Various Projects
Member of Birmingham Jazz Research Group
2015 - ongoing
Research Project with Dr Jonathan Stockdale and Dr Matthew Bourne
July 2014 and April 2015 - This was a project looking at the nature of interaction during performance and improvisation. Included a performance at Cheltenham jazz festival.