Staff in the Department of Music
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Staff list
Dr Tamsin Alexander
t.alexander (@gold.ac.uk)
Tamsin is a musicologist, specialising in European musical culture in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Dr Guy Baron
g.baron (@gold.ac.uk)
Guy conducts practice-based research in music production and works as a singer-producer under the name Semi Precious.
Dr Mira Benjamin
M.Benjamin (@gold.ac.uk)
Canadian violinist, researcher & new-music instigator, specialising in performance of new and experimental music.
Dr Alexis Bennett
a.bennett (@gold.ac.uk)
Alexis researches audiovisual media, and has parallel interests in folk and early music.
Imogen Burman
i.burman (@gold.ac.uk)
Imogen organises all the performance based activities in the department, including rehearsals, concerts, degree shows and visiting guest artists, performers and lecturers.
Mr Simon Deacon
s.deacon (@gold.ac.uk)
Simon has overseen the development of a performance culture within the Music department and is a founder of NX Records.
Dr Moss Freed
M.Freed (@gold.ac.uk)
Moss is a composer, performer and bandleader with interests in improvisation and social aspects of ensemble performance
Dr Iris Garrelfs
i.garrelfs (@gold.ac.uk)
Iris works on the cusp of music, art and sociology across improvised performance, installation and media projects.
Mr Mikko Gordon
m.gordon (@gold.ac.uk)
Mikko is a music producer and mixing engineer, who has worked with artists such as Thom Yorke, Pete Townshend and Gaz Coombes. He is responsible for the Goldsmiths Music Studios.
Dr Stephen Graham
s.graham (@gold.ac.uk)
Stephen's research theoretically analyses a wide range of current music, from underground to popular and avant-garde.
Jennifer Isidore
j.isidore (@gold.ac.uk)
Jennifer's interests: practice-based research and music as resistance in Afro-diasporic and black British musicking
Dr Caroline Kennedy
c.kennedy (@gold.ac.uk)
Dr Caroline Kennedy is a trans-disciplinary artist, musician-composer and practice researcher
Dr Maria Krivenski
m.krivenski (@gold.ac.uk)
Maria focusses on the culture of ‘classical’ musical performance – how it is created, transmitted and transformed.
Dr Naomi Matsumoto
n.matsumoto (@gold.ac.uk)
Naomi has scholarly interests in Italian opera, Purcell and Monteverdi and Baroque period performance practice.
Dr Rachel McCarthy
r.mccarthy (@gold.ac.uk)
Rachel is a musicologist, focusing on 21st century music and politics.
Ed McKeon
music (@gold.ac.uk)
Ed McKeon leads the Masters module on Music Management.
Joe Newman
j.newman (@gold.ac.uk)
As a guitarist and performer, Joe has toured and recorded with Mercury Prize-nominated artists Jessie Ware, Ghostpoet and Eska, as well as Tom Jones, Miguel and Bilal.
Professor Barley Norton BSc (Mus), MMus, PhD
b.norton (@gold.ac.uk)
Barley is an ethnomusicologist and filmmaker with research interests in the music and culture of Southeast Asia.
Professor Tom Perchard
t.perchard (@gold.ac.uk)
Tom’s teaching and research centres on the cultural history and historiography of jazz and popular music.
Brenda Rattray
music (@gold.ac.uk)
Brenda is an Educator, Composer, Performer and Artist. Her specialism is a passion for teaching expressive voice to people in all areas of the community from high profile psychiatric prisons to special schools, Montessori nurseries to the BBC Concert and Symphony Orchestras.
Dr Lauren Redhead
l.redhead (@gold.ac.uk)
Lauren’s research spans composition, performance and contemporary musicology., with a focuses on the music and aesthetics of the 21st Century and the methodological critique of practice research.
Professor Holly Rogers
h.rogers (@gold.ac.uk)
I am interested in music's convergence with the visual arts.