Research Staff
Research Interests of the School's Academic Staff
Robert Burke DipMus MMus Perf (VCA) — Jazz and popular music improvisation.
Joel Crotty BSocSci (RMIT) BA MA PhD (Monash) — Eighteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century art music; in particular Australian and Romanian music, repertoire and performance studies.
Craig De Wilde BA ( Whittier Coll.) MFA (UCalif., Irvine ), PhD (UCalif., Santa Barbara ) — Nineteenth and twentieth century art music, German romanticism, general music history, popular music history of the United States and Australia , music business.
Kenji Fujimura BMus (Hons) MMus (Melb) Grad Dip Perf (RAM,London) LRAM — Early 20th century British music, especially the music of William Hurlstone (1876-1906), keyboard music of the Classic era, music of the Prix de Rome, Performance Research, music editing.
David Griffiths BMus (ANU) MMus (Manhattan) — Authentic performance of American Ragtime music, Clarinet repertoire and performance: solo and chamber music.
Made Mantle Hood BA (Maryland) MA (Hawaii) DrPhil (Cologne) — Empowering musical diversity, music and philosophy/religion/healing, media and performance in Southeast Asia, applied ethnomusicology, traditional and contemporary Javanese/Balinese gamelan performance.
Margaret Kartomi AM FAHA BA BMus Hons Comp (Adel) Dr.Phil (Humboldt) — Musicological and ethnomusicological theory, organology, historiography, ethnography of Indonesian and other Southeast Asian music and performing arts, Aboriginal Australian children's music, popular music of Southeast Asia.
Peter Mcilwain BMus Hons, MMus (Adel) — Sound spatialisation techniques, algorithmic composition, neural networks and connectionist approaches to computer generated music, film music, orchestral composition.
Fintan Murphy BA Hons (Melb.) MMus Perf (Catholic U of America) - strings pedagogy, editing of violin works.
Thomas Reiner BA (La Trobe) MMus PhD (Melb) — composition, music theory.
Elizabeth Sellars AGSM (Guildhall School of Music-London) — Violin repertoire and performance, chamber music, contemporary performance.
Graeme Smith BSc DipEd University of Melbourne, BA Hons PhD Monash — Popular music studies and ethnomusicology, especially music and national and group identity, folk revival musics, Irish traditional music, Australian country music, multicultural and world music, construction of social meaning, voice and body.
Tamara Smolyar Dip Mus Hons (Kiev State Music College), BMus Hons (Kiev State Cons) MMus Perf (Melb) — Piano repertoire and performance (especially 19th and 20th centuries).
Research Officers
Currently the School employs three Research Officers:
These Research Officers concentrate their efforts solely on research and work on materials in the Music Archive and assist some staff with their research tasks.
Adjunct Research Staff
The Adjunct Research Staff include:
- Dr Gay Breyley (Adjunct Research Fellow)
- Dr Tony Gould (Adjunct Research Fellow)
- Ms Julia (Pei Yun) Lu (Adjunct Research Associate)
- Dr Elizabeth Scarlett (Adjunct Research Associate)
- Dr Aline Scott-Maxwell (Adjunct Senior Research Fellow)
- Dr Marcello Sorce-Keller (Adjunct Research Fellow)
- Dr Nino Tsitsishvili (Adjunct Research Fellow)
- Dr Zheng-Ting Wang (Adjunct Research Associate)
- Dr Vicki-ann Ware (Adjunct Research Associate)
- Dr John Whiteoak (Adjunct Senior Research Fellow)