Research students

The Centre for Music Studies at City has a large and diverse research community. Research students benefit from exposure to the wide range of research interests on offer, though research seminars, discussion groups and performance opportunities.

Here are some of the research students currently studying towards a research degree or DMA in music at City University.

• Seth Ayyaz Bhunnoo
  Composer/performer whose work spans fixed electroacoustics, live electronics, Islamic musics, free improvisation and noise. Dissertation researching 'embodied listening': biopsychosocial approaches to the acousmatic in performance-composition practices.
   
• L. Donat Berkoz
  A Gendered Musicological Study of the Work of Four Leading Female
  Singer-Songwriters: Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush and Tori Amos.
  Supervisor: Dr Christopher Wiley
   
• Andrew Brownell
  'The English Piano in the Classical Period: Its Music, Performers, and Influences'
   
• Sarah Collins
  Composition. Dissertation on Judith Weir's chamber music.
  Supervisor: Rhian Samuel
   
  
• Katherine De La Matter
  'A Study and Critical Edition of Domenico Scarlatti's opera Tolomeo et Alessandro'
   
• Amy Dickson
  Dissertation on the saxophone music of British composer Freda Swain.
  Supervisor: Rhian Samuel
   
• Carlos Duque
  Composition. Dissertation on Roberto Gerhard's 4th Symphony.
  Supervisor: Rhian Samuel
   
• Mario Ferraro
  Composition. Dissertation on contemporary music-drama in London.
  Supervisor: Rhian Samuel
   
• Christina Georgiou
  An investigation of editing, printing and publishing practices in context from the 18th century until today. Case study: Mozart's Piano Sonatas.
  Supervisor: Dr Alexander Lingas
   
• Owen Green
  Live Electronic Performance and Composition. Researching approaches to collaborative play in live electronics, emergent systems, theories of practice, improvisation.
   
• Marisa Gupta
  'The compositions of Dinu Lipatti: tracing the composer's voice within the forgotten legacy of Lipatti's artistry'.
   
• Kishor Gurung
  Traditional Music of Nepal: A Study of the Field Recordings of Arnold Bake.
  Supervisor: Dr Laudan Nooshin
   
• Guy Harries
  Electroacoustic composition and disseration on embodied listening and performance in relation to technology.
   
  
• Kostis Hassiotis
  (DMA, in submission), 'A Critical Edition of the 48 Studies for Oboe, Op. 31 by Franz Wilhelm Ferling (1796-1874), based on Original Historical Evidence and Viewed Within the Context of the Evolution of Didactic Material for Oboe, with Particular Reference to Nineteenth-Century Performing Practices'
  Supervisor: Dr Christopher Wiley
   
• Rachel Hayward
  The Steel Pan in Britain and Europe
  Supervisor: Dr Laudan Nooshin
   
• Diana Ionescu
  The Piano Suites of George Enescu
  Supervisor: Dr Alexander Lingas
   
• Carolyn Landau
  Research on music consumption and identity amongst Moroccans in London and community use of archival sound recordings.
  Supervisor: Dr Laudan Nooshin
   
• Mark Lawrence
  Composition. Dissertation on the Choral Music of Veljo Tormis.
  Supervisor: Rhian Samuel
   
• Young-Pyo Lee
  'Alberic Magnard's Sonata for Violin and Piano and its first performers' 
   
• Lemy Lim
  Dissertation on the reception of women pianists in London, 1950-60.
  Supervisor: Rhian Samuel
   
• Erik Nyström
  Composition. Researching the notion of spatial texture as a qualitative assessment of spatiotemporal relationships of sound in electroacoustic music.
  Supervisor: Denis Smalley
   
• Nadya Ostroff
  (PhD, in submission), 'ElectroCentral: The Influence of Weimar Culture on British Pop Music in the 1970s and 1980s'
  Supervisor: Dr Christopher Wiley
   
• Aki Pasoulas
  Electroacoustic composition. The perception and structuring of time in electroacoustic music.
  Supervisor: Denis Smalley
   
• Vasileios Rakitzis
  'Alfred Cortot and his (unpublished) writings on Schubert's piano music'.
   
• Joanne Richardson
  Dissertation on the modern piano quintet,with particular emphasis on works by Ades, Goehr, Bacewicz and Gubaidulina.
  Supervisor: Rhian Samuel
   
• Ambrose Seddon
  Recurrence in Acousmatic Music
  Supervisor: Denis Smalley
   
• Laura Seddon
  Dissertation on The Society of Women Musicians,1910-20.
  Supervisor: Rhian Samuel
   
• Adam Stansbie
  Composition. Current research focuses upon the metaphysics of electroacoustic music.
  Supervisor: Denis Smalley
   
• Paul Tkachenko
  Researching the interaction of professional Klezmer musicans in London.
  Supervisor: Dr Alexander Lingas
   
• Alejandro Toledo
  Fanfare Ciocarlia and Eastern European Roma Music
  Supervisor: Dr Laudan Nooshin
   
• Marc Verter
  'Baudelaire and Music: A Study of musical settings of Baudelaire's poetry'.
   
• Niloufar Yousefi
  Negotiating Kurdish Identity with a Specific Focus on the Ravaayi Music of Kurdistan, Iran
  Supervisor: Dr Laudan Nooshin