The Department of Music is one of the largest in the UK, offering a very broad and diverse range of modules, all taught by expert scholars.
Please scroll through the list of our current faculty members and our esteemed Honorary and Emeritus faculty:
Head of Department
Professor Stephen Rose
Professor of Music
Research topics of interest: German music 1500-1800; English music 1550-1750; music and book history; digital musicology.
Contact email address: stephen.rose@rhul.ac.uk
Our current faculty
Mr Thomas Baynes
Lecturer in Music and Screen Media
Research topics of interest: Music composition; Music technology; Spatial Audio; Immersive Sound; 3D Audio
Contact email address: Thomas.Baynes@rhul.ac.uk
Professor Mark Berry
Professor of Music and Intellectual History
Research topics of interest: Intellectual and cultural history; opera; Mozart; Wagner; Schoenberg; Adorno; German idealism and Marxism.
Contact email address: mark.berry@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Nathan James Dearden
Lecturer in Music Composition
Dr Nathan James Dearden is also the Director for the Choral Academy at Royal Holloway University of London.
Research topics of interests: Music composition: Orchestral & chamber music; vocal & choral music; opera; immersive & experiential music-making; music in the community.
Research profile | Professional website
Contact email address: nathanjames.dearden@rhul.ac.uk
Professor Stephen Downes
Professor of Music
Research topics of interest: Central and Eastern European music; romanticism and modernism.
Contact email address: stephen.downes@rhul.ac.uk
Professor Mary Dullea
Professor of Music Performance
Research topics of interest: Piano trio performance practice; new works for solo piano, incorporating extended techniques.
Contact email address: mary.dullea@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Daniel Elphick
Lecturer in Musicology
Research topics of interest: Music history and politics, especially Russian, Soviet, and East-European music since 1800; music theory and analysis; Shostakovich; Weinberg; socialist realism; music and Marxism.
Contact email address: daniel.elphick@rhul.ac.uk
Mr Rupert Gough
Director of Choral Music
Research topics of interest: Choral music; choral pedagogy; pipe organ; keyboard accompaniment
Contact email address: rupert.gough@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Estera Jaros
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in Music
Contact email address: Estera.Jaros@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Zubin Kanga
Senior Lecturer in Musical Performance and Digital Arts
Dr Zubin Kanga is also the UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Principal Investigator of Cyborg Soloists
Research topics of interest: Composing and performing with new technologies, including AI, visual interactions, bio-sensors and new instrument design. Distributed Creativity. Diversity in contemporary music.
Contact email address: zubin.kanga@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Tonia Ko
Senior Lecturer in Music Composition
Research topics of interest: Music composition: Instrumental and vocal music; electronics; improvisation; sound art; music and movement.
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Contact email address: tonia.ko@rhul.ac.uk
Ms Rebecca Miller
Director of Orchestras
Research topics of interest: Music performance; conducting.
Contact email address: rebecca.miller@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Tom Parkinson
Senior Lecturer in Digital Composition
Research topics of interest: Music composition and sound design for immersive, interactive and screen media; theatre and dance; production; music technology
Contact email address: tom.parkinson@rhul.ac.uk
Professor Tina K. Ramnarine
Professor of Music
Research topics of interest: Global perspectives on music; performance; orchestras; ethnomusicology
Contact email address: tina.k.ramnarine@rhul.ac.uk
Professor Henry Stobart
Professor of Music
Research topics of interest: Global perspectives on Music, especially of the Bolivian Andes; ethnomusicology; Indigenous perspectives/aesthetics; performance practice; digital technologies; media piracy; heritage making.
Contact email address: h.stobart@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Tim Summers
Senior Lecturer in Music & Video Games
Dr Tim Summers is also Director of the Centre for Audiovisual Research at Royal Holloway University of London.
Research topics of interest: Music and the moving image, especially video games; virtuality and interactivity; opera, particularly Wagner; music education, queer theory.
Contact email address: tim.summers@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Shzr Ee Tan
Reader in Music
Contact email address: shzree.tan@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Tom Wagner
Teaching Fellow in Music Performance & Digital Arts
Research topics of interest: Ethnomusicology and performance; connections between cultural values and economic value in hyper-mediated consumer cultures; live music in immersive virtual environments and ethical consumption discourses in the music industries.
Contact email address: tom.wagner@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Wayne Weaver
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Music
Contact email address: Wayne.Weaver@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Nina Whiteman
Reader in Music Composition
Research profile | Professional website
Contact email address: nina.whiteman@rhul.ac.uk
Honorary & Emeritus faculty
Professor Geoff Baker
Emeritus Professor of Music
Contact email address: geoff.baker@rhul.ac.uk
Professor Julie Brown
Emeritus Professor of Music
Research topics of interest: Cultural history of early 20th-century music; Schoenberg and Viennese Modernism; musical multimedia; silent film music.
Contact email address: julie.brown@rhul.ac.uk
Professor Geoffrey Chew
Emeritus Professor of Music
Research topics of interest: Czech and Slovak music and literature since 1600.
Contact email address: g.chew@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Helen Deeming
Honorary Research Associate
Research topics of interest: Medieval music; notation; manuscript studies.
Contact email address: helen.deeming@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Samantha Fernando
Honorary Research Associate
Research topics of interest: Music composition
Contact email address: samantha.fernando@rhul.ac.uk
Professor Julian Johnson
Emeritus Professor of Music
Research topics of interest: 19th and 20th centuries; philosophy of music; modernism.
Contact email address: julian.johnson@rhul.ac.uk
Professor Erik Levi
Emeritus Professor of Music
Research topics of interest: Austrian and German Music of the Twentieth Century especially Weimar Republic, Austrofascism, the Nazi era, politically suppressed composers and Interpreters, Mozart and Beethoven reception in wartime Europe.
