Teaching
Recent Courses Taught (since 2000)
Advanced Aural Training |
1st year undergraduates (KCL) |
Richard Wagner |
2nd year undergraduates (KCL) |
JS Bach |
3rd year undergraduates (KCL) |
Advanced Performance Studies |
3rd year undergraduates (KCL) |
Historical Special Study |
3rd year undergraduates (KCL) |
Advanced Opera Study: Wagner’s Parsifal |
MMus seminar (KCL) |
The Cantatas of JS Bach |
MMus seminar (KCL) |
Johannes Brahms in the 1860s |
MMus seminar (KCL) |
Wagner and the Erotic Impulse |
MMus seminar (KCL) |
History II and Analysis (FHS 2006) |
Magdalen College Oxford |
History and Analysis (MODS 2006) |
Magdalen College Oxford |
Chamber Music (FHS 2007, 2009) |
Faculty of Music, Oxford |
Wagner and Musical Eroticism (M.St seminar) |
Faculty of Music, Oxford |
Performance Seminar (Mphil) |
Faculty of Music, Oxford |
Bach and his musical world (FHS 2007, 2009) |
Faculty of Music, Oxford |
Richard Wagner: Romantic operas and music dramas (FHS 2008) |
Faculty of Music, Oxford |
Jews in German Musical Culture, 1700-1900 (FHS 2008, 2009) |
Faculty of Music, Oxford |
Brahms in the 1860s (MODS 2009) |
Faculty of Music, Oxford |
Theory and Analysis Seminar (M.St) |
Faculty of Music, Oxford |
Performance Studies Seminar (M.St) |
Faculty of Music, Oxford |
Current Dphil supervisions
- Archangelo Corelli and the Play of Styles (University of Oxford) – Alberto Sanna
- J.S. Bach at the Coffee House: Music as Edifying Practice (University of Oxford) – Burkhard Schwalbach
- The British Organ Revival and the Recordings of J.S. Bach’s Organ Works – Nicholas Prozzillo
Current Mphil supervision
- Harpsichord performance and the Keyboard Works of Orlando Gibbons – Jonathan Oddie
Supervised PhD theses brough to completion
- Judith Silber, Mendelssohn's Reformation Symphony: From Concept to Published Work, Yale, 1986
- Jeanne Swack, The Solo Sonatas of Georg Philipp Telemann: A Study of the Style and Sources, Yale, 1988
- Matthew Dirst, Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier in Musical Thought and Practice, 1750-1850, Stanford, 1996
- Rachel Cowgill, Mozart's Music in London, 1764-1829: Aspects of Reception and Canonicity, King’s College London, 2000
- John Moran, Techniques of Expression in Viennese String Music (1780-1830): Reconstructing Fingering and Bowing Practices, King’s College London, 2001
- Julia Severus, Die Artikulation bei den Klavierwerken von Joh. Seb. Bach, Technische Universität Berlin 2001 (served as ‘Wissenschaftlicher Berater’)
- Rebecca Lloyd, Bach among the Conservatives: the Quest for Theological Truth, King’s College London, 2006
- Alan Howard, Purcell and the Poetics of Musical Artifice: A study of the Fantasias and Sonatas, King’s College London, 2006
Oxford Research and Dphil students examined
- Gulliver Rallston (St. Peter’s College), English Wagnerism, (Confirmation of Status, May, 2006), Dphil viva (internal examiner) March 2007
- Ozzie Johnstone (Christ Church), The Square Piano Transfer of Status (September 2006 and May 2007)
- Carmel Crouchamp, Habermas and Mozart’s musical borrowings (Transfer of Status, My 2006, Confirmation of Status, May 2007)
- Katherine Pardee, J.S. Bach’s Reception in England (Confirmation of Status, January 2008)
- Benjamin Hebber, The London Music Trade: 1500-1725, Dphil viva (internal examiner) February 2008
- Graham Griffiths, Stravinsky’s Neoclassicism Reconsidered: The Piano, Pianism and its Context (Confirmation of Status, April 2006, Dphil viva –Internal examiner – 9 April 2008)
- Joanna Bullivant, 2009
- Simon Debruslais, Hindemith and Fugue
- Patrick Gilday