Find a research supervisor in musical composition

Staff in the Department of Music who supervise PhD/MA by Research in the area of musical composition.

Professor Michael Zev Gordon

Professor Michael Zev Gordon

Professor of Composition

Instrumental and Vocal Composition; Orchestration; Music and Memory; Music and Time; Western/Non-Western Interaction in Musical Composition

Professor Christopher Haworth

Professor Christopher Haworth

Professor of Twenty-First Century Music

Experimental music, electronic music, media art, sound art; popular music; History and critical theory of music technology; Digital musicology; Music and genre; Perception of sound and music; Practice-based research in these areas. 

Dr Shu Jiang

Dr Shu Jiang

Teaching Fellow

I am an ethnomusicologist and Chinese zheng and qin player with a special interest in Chinese music and transcultural music studies.

Dr Ryan Latimer

Dr Ryan Latimer

Associate Professor in Music

  • Composition
  • Orchestration
  • 20th/21st Century Music
  • Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Professor Annie Mahtani

Professor Annie Mahtani

Professor of Electroacoustic Composition and Practice

Electroacoustic composition; multichannel composition; environmental sound

Professor Scott Wilson

Professor Scott Wilson

Professor of Composition and Electronic Music
Director of BEAST and of the Electroacoustic Studios
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)

Composition (electroacoustic / instrumental / mixed); audio spatialisation; realtime computer music (especially with SuperCollider); laptop ensembles; network music; live coding

Music staff research supervision areas