Post-Doctoral Studies

Between December 2023 and September 2024, I will be the Susan Manning Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Edinburgh, which is affiliated with Edinburgh University. My time there will be spent developing a new extended work with my colleagues Ensemble 1604 who I worked with extensively during my PhD. The new concert-length work, Micrographia, will explore and respond to Robert Hooke’s treatise that documented observations made through microscopes and telescopes. The book comprises descriptions of experiments Hooke made along with his highly detailed hand drawn images from his studies. The new work will be made collaboratively, building on the practice we have developed since 2018. The work will be composed for recorder (László Rózsa, counter-tenor (Rory McCleery), theorbo (Alex McCartney), baroque violin (Emma Lloyd) and baroque cello (Lucia Capellaro).

Doctoral Studies

In 2023 I was awarded my PhD from the University of St Andrews having studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where I have worked since 2013. I was supervised by Professor Alistair MacDonald and Dr Diana Salazar.

The project comprised six compositions and a commentary. The works included in the portfolio were:

• Breathing Space (for tuba and electronics)
• Tide Times (site-responsive work)
• Mechanical (interactive kinetic sound installation)
• …shadows that in darkness dwell… (for recorder, counter-tenor, recorder, theorbo, baroque cello and electronics)
• The Narrow Way (for recorder, counter-tenor, recorder, theorbo, baroque cello and electronics)
• Labyrinth (for baroque cello and electronics)

PhD Related Publications:

• My PhD is published on the St Andrew’s repository here.
• I have written about Mechanical in the Scottish Journal of Performance.
• Laura Bissell and I wrote about Tide Times in the Body, Space & Technology Journal.

Older Publications:

• I wrote about Fata Morgana in the proceedings of Innovation in Music II