Staff in the Department of Music

Dr Tamsin Alexander

Tamsin is a musicologist, specialising in European musical culture in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Dr Guy Baron

Guy conducts practice-based research in music production and works as a singer-producer under the name Semi Precious.

Dr Alexis Bennett

Alexis researches audiovisual media, and has parallel interests in folk and early music.

Imogen Burman

Imogen organises all the performance based activities in the department, including rehearsals, concerts, degree shows and visiting guest artists, performers and lecturers.

Professor Simon Deacon

Simon has overseen the development of a performance culture within the Music department and is a founder of NX Records.

Dr Moss Freed

Moss is a composer, performer and bandleader with interests in improvisation and social aspects of ensemble performance

Dr Iris Garrelfs

Iris works on the cusp of music, art and sociology across improvised performance, installation and media projects.

Mr Mikko Gordon

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.

Professor Stephen Graham

Stephen's research theoretically analyses a wide range of current music, from underground to popular and avant-garde.

Jennifer Isidore

Jennifer's interests: practice research and music as resistance in the black British diaspora

Dr Caroline Kennedy

Dr Caroline Kennedy is a trans-disciplinary artist, musician-composer and practice researcher

Dr Maria Krivenski

Maria focusses on the culture of ‘classical’ musical performance – how it is created, transmitted and transformed.

Dr Naomi Matsumoto

Naomi has scholarly interests in Italian opera, Purcell and Monteverdi and Baroque period performance practice.

Dr Rachel McCarthy

Rachel is a musicologist, focusing on 21st century music and politics.

Ed McKeon

Ed McKeon leads the Masters module on Music Management.

Joe Newman

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

Barley is an ethnomusicologist and filmmaker with research interests in the music and culture of Southeast Asia.

Professor Tom Perchard

Brenda Rattray

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

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

Holly is interested in music's convergence with the visual arts.