Current Students

Heather Armsby: The role of women in the British brass band

Samantha Bassler: "The Most Splended Period of English Music". Sir Richard Terry and the Reception History of William Byrd's Latin-Texted Music in Britain during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Daniel Brew: Expanding idiomatic electric guitar in contemporary music

Paul Britten: English Municipal Orchestras in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Natalie Burton: The marriage of music and poetry: structure in the twentieth-century English song cycle

Michael Busk: The early nineteenth-century music festivals in Manchester and the industrial north-west of England

Caroline Cowan: August Manns, the Crystal Palace: a study of British composers and their premiere concerts with relation to canon formation and the 'English Musical Renaissance'

Bridget Cunningham: Johann Adolph Hasse and the operatic music of eighteenth-century London

Ann Grindley: Fin-de-siècle Salon Culture: A Reappraisal of Cécile Chaminade

Louise Guy: Recorders in Scottish Education: the life and work of Brian Bonsor

Elizabeth Hardman: Confronting canonicity and promoting diversity: gender and contemporary concert programming

Tristan Harkcom: Wagnerian Wounds: Trauma and Wagner’s post-1849 Works

Liz Irvine: A study of Handel's borrowings

Maciej Kierzkowski: The history of brass bands of Poland

Giancarlo Ranzani: Learning rhythm in a Cuban school: A qualitative case study

Wendy Smith: Exploring homage in electroacoustic music: exposing the hidden histories and work of early women electroacoustic composers in Europe (1940-70)

Christine Turner: The subscription practices of William Wilberforce and his circle to evangelical sacred music collections c.1730-c.1830

Dawn Weeden: Salvation Army brass band festivals: mission, message and performance

Connor Wheeldon: Investigating musical pastiche through the works of Franz Liszt

Jessica Yuen: Women's work in classical music: an exploration of the roles and positions held by women performers in the contemporary classical music industry

Giorgio Zampirolo: MOOCs in 21st Century Music Education:  a quality survey that integrates theory and case study research