Music Visiting Staff
African Drumming, Big Band, Cuban Music & African Music Studies: Barak Schmool
Indonesian Music Studies & Gamelan Tuition: Andy Channing
Jewish Music Studies: Dr. Ruth Rosenfelder
MSc in Music Information Technology: Jon Dack
Sound Recording & Production: Jonathan Leong (BBC), Paul Newis (BBC)
Symphony Orchestra: Anthony Weeden
Music Therapy: Ben Saul
Studies in Orchestration: Robert Percy
Music of North and East Africa: Carolyn Landau
(visiting lecturer: African Drumming, Jazz Workshop, Latin Music Ensemble; African Music Studies and Latin-American Music Studies)
attended the Royal Academy of Music and then City University gaining degrees in composition whilst studying in the capital’s jazz clubs. He can be heard performing with Django Bates’ Delightful Precipice, Robert Mitchell’s Panacea and a host of Brazilian, Cuban and West African acts. The bands he formed - Roots of Unity, Méta Méta, Sounds of Senegal, Akwaaba Drum Orchestra and Rhythms of the City - mostly work in integrated dance and music forms, as does his group Timeline. Barak is also a contributor to Songlines, a world music magazine. Interspersed with brief periods of organic gardening and wholefood cookery, he has been a freelance professional musician since 1991.
(visiting lecturer: Indonesian Music Studies, Balinese Gamelan, Javanese Gamelan)
is a freelance gamelan tutor specialisng in both Javanese and Balinese music. He also teaches gamelan at the South Bank and the School of Oriental and African Studies.
(visiting lecturer: Jewish Music Studies)
Her early music training was as a pianist, studying first with the composer/pianist Julius Isserlis and later as a student of Franz Reizenstein at the Royal Academy of Music, where she gained an LRAM. She then taught piano and theory of music at South Hampstead High School for Girls (for some considerable time) before joining City’s Music Department where she completed her MA. Her PhD thesis, also gained at City, considered women‘s music in London’s H.asidic Jewish community. Her interest in the subject stems from a combination of her musical upbringing within a traditional Jewish home environment.
(visiting lecturer: Sound Recording and Production)
completed a BSc music degree at City University in 1984. He has worked mainly in radio and music recording for the BBC. Projects he has worked on include Proms in the Park, Glastonbury Festivals and DVD-Vs for commercial release. Recently he has been managing a team who have been preserving the BBC’s Radio Archive. He plays the guitar although these days it is more air guitar than the real thing.
(visiting lecturer: Sound Recording and Production)
has worked for the BBC for 23 years and is currently a Manager within BBC Radio Resources, having previously worked as a BBC Radio Studio Manager and Instructor in Radio Operations. He is also Director of a specialist Forensic Audio Company, contributor to the Journal of the International Association of Forensic Phoneticians, active member of the Institute of Broadcast Sound and freelance Recording Engineer.
(visiting conductor: City University Symphony Orchestra)
graduated from Durham University and the Royal College of Music. His prize-winning conducting work has taken him to Europe, America and Asia. He has made recordings for BBC Radio 3 with the RCM Symphony Orchestra, Lyric FM with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, and most recently for West German Radio 3 with the Duisburger Philharmoniker. In 2004, he was invited by the eminent contemporary jazz composer Django Bates to conduct at his flourishing orchestral concerts; he made his debut alongside Django's jazz quartet Human Chain and Joanna MacGregor in June 2004.
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