The research community

With strong links between research and postgraduate teaching, research students benefit from the music Centre's integration of Western and non-Western music, and an interdisciplinary approach that encourages studies related to popular culture and contemporary creative practice, performance, technology, aural culture and world music.

Research students are studying areas as diverse as London-based Klezmer music, 18th-century publishing practices and the nature of collaboration in live electroacoustic performance.

Find out more about our Music PhD/MPhil.

All students benefit from participation in a weekly research seminar series, attended by both staff and student researchers across the Centre. Other events held throughout each term include public concert series, specialist seminars and student performances.

For instrumental and vocal composers, the Centre's ongoing association with the London Sinfonietta allows composers to have works performed by the ensemble at LSO St Luke's. Composers and creative practitioners working in electroacoustic and electronic music can work in the Centre's well-equipped studios, and regularly perform their work in the Centre's purpose built performance space, which is fully equipped with multimedia and network facilities.