YMPG - Key Persons
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- Composition, Performance: Spectral and Microtonal Music Live Electronics Orchestration
- Deputy Head of Faculty Operations / School of Arts and Creative Technologies
Composition, Performance: spectral and microtonal music; live electronics; orchestration.
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- Head of Corporate Training
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- Head of Corporate Training
- Knowledge Transfer Manager, KTP Programme
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- Director of Waste Water at Yorkshire Water
Professor James Chong, left, talks to Ben Roche, Director of Waste Water at Yorkshire Water about the System-60 project, a collaboration to gain clean energy from waste water.
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- Records Manager and University Archivist
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- Member of the Remuneration Committee
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- Lecturer
- Member of the Associated
- Producer
- Co - Founder of AUDIO
- Lecturer in Sound Recording and Music Production / School of Arts and Creative Technologies
Amandine Pras is a recording producer, audio engineer, researcher, and educator. Before joining the University of York in September 2021, she was a Lecturer of Digital Audio Arts in the Music Department at the University of Lethbridge in Western Canada (2017-2021). There, she designed the West African Audio Network now led by Dr Adam Patrick Bell at the University of Calgary and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) (2020-2024), in partnership with Digital Cultures in West Africa: Music, Youth, and Mediation coordinated by Dr Emmanuelle Olivier at Centre Georg Simmel, CNRS, EHESS Paris, and funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) (2019-2024). As part of this international project, Amandine is carrying out research fieldworks and audio workshops in recording studios, cultural and higher education institutions of Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, and Senegal. She also initiated a program exchange that enhances Western African audio engineers' access to the Audio Recording Engineer Practicum coordinated by James Clemens-Seely at the Banff Centre, and to the international network of the Audio Engineering Society (AES).
Committed to find solutions to de-gender and decolonize the field of Audio, Amandine is a co-founder of AUDIO+ events and journal currently funded by SSHRC (2021-2022) with Kirk McNally at the University of Victoria, Dr Eliot Bates at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Grace Brooks at McGill University and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT). Amandine is also dedicated to improving women and gender-non-conforming producers' access to advanced audio education. In this view, she is a consultant for the Women in the Studio program directed by Margaret McGuffin at Music Publisher Canada.
Since graduating from the Advanced music production program at the Paris Conservatoire in 2006, Amandine has worked as a freelance audio engineer and music producer on projects ranging from free and alternative jazz, classical and popular music, through to electroacoustic and experimental music, with artists as diverse as the ARC Ensemble, Jim Black, Luciane Cardassi, Nels Cline, Quatuor Bozzini, Subhajyoti Guha, Andy Milne, William Parker, and Satoshi Takeishi. Her PhD thesis that she conducted at McGill University and CIRMMT focused on the varied practices of creating musical recordings in the digital era. Also, the last of her two postdoctoral residencies in New York City was an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural case study in West Bengal (India) with renown improvisers from the New York alternative jazz scene and from the Kolkata North-Indian classical music scene. In disseminating the research findings, she directed a 50-min video documentary A Home Away From Home that she presented at the World Film Festival of Montreal in 2018, and in art and education venues in Banff, Buenos Aires, Kolkata, Lethbridge, New York, and Paris.
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- Lecturer / School of Arts and Creative Technologies
- Professor
Catherine Laws is a musicologist and a pianist specialising in contemporary music. She studied Music at the University of York, and her doctoral thesis, Music and Language in the Work of Samuel Beckett was awarded in 1996. Towards the end of her doctoral studies she took up the position of Lecturer in Music at De Montfort University, Leicester, subsequently moving to Dartington College of Arts in 1997. She stayed at Dartington for 10 years, working as Associate Director of Music from 2000 and also leading the College's interdisciplinary MA in Performance Practices. In 2007 Catherine left full-time academia to focus more on performance, taking a part-time Fellowship in Artistic Research at the Orpheus Institute, Ghent. In 2010 she returned to the University of York as a lecturer, while also continuing as a Senior Artistic Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute. She was promoted to Professor of Music in 2020.
Catherine performs and records regularly, often working closely with composers on new pieces. Her 75-minute solo multimedia performance piece, Player Piano, developed in collaboration with four composers, two theatre makers, and a film maker, was premiered in 2016. She has recently developed a series of piano films with Korean film maker Minyung Im, reconceiving for film a number of piano pieces developed collaboratively with composers Juliana Hodkinson, Edward Jessen, Annea Lockwood, Roger Marsh, and Paul Whitty.
Catherine has published widely on aspects of contemporary performance practices, especially in relation to processes of collaboration, embodiment, and identity. Voices, Bodies Practices: Performing Musical Subjectivities, co-authored with William Brooks, David Gorton, Nguyễn Thanh Thủy, Stefan Östersjö, Jeremy J. Wells, came out in 2019 (with a linked repository of artistic work), and the edited volume Performance, Subjectivity, and Experimentation was published in 2020. Catherine also works in the field of word and music studies, with a special focus on the role of music in the work of Samuel Beckett and composers' responses to his texts. Her book ‘Headaches Among the Overtones': Music in Beckett/ Beckett in Music (Editions Rodopi, 2013) was the first monograph on the topic of Beckett and music.
Catherine Laws is a musicologist and a pianist specialising in contemporary music. She has two primary research specialisms: research in and through performance and word and music studies (particularly the relationship between music, language, and meaning).
As a performer, Catherine is active in the field of new music and experimental music theatre. She is particularly interested in the inherent theatricality of musical performance and the interaction between body and instrument, but also in piano sound: touch, tone, and resonance. Her most recent project is a large-scale, solo music theatre piece, Player Piano, developed in collaboration with four composers, a theatre maker and a film maker. Other recent recordings include a film version of when the wind blows by Juliana Hodkinson (composed for Catherine), a new version of Annea Lockwood's Ceci n'est un piano (for piano, recorded text and electronics), recordings of music for two or more pianos by Morton Feldman and John Cage (with Philip Thomas, John Tilbury, and Mark Knoop) on the label another timbre, and a recording of head down among the stems and bells (for amplified, prepared piano), by Martin Iddon (also for another timbre).
Catherine's practice research is focused on processes of embodiment, subjectivity, and collaboration in contemporary performance. In addition to her current post at York, she is a Senior Artistic Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, where she leads the research cluster Performance, Subjectivity, and Experimentation. The aim of this cluster is to examine how subjectivity is produced through performance practices associated with new music: who is the ‘I' that performs, and how is that ‘I' embodied in performance? In particular:
How can experimentation with processes toward performance draw out, or foreground, subjectivity in action, and aid our understanding of its production?
How do the dynamic relationships between performers, other artists, materials, and historical and cultural contexts contribute to the emergence of subjectivity?
How do the processes of performance reflect and produce gendered and cultural identities? How do these issues relate to understandings of creativity and identity?
Daniel March's research focuses upon music of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. His doctoral thesis, entitled Beyond Simplicity: Analytical Strategies for Contemporary Music was completed in 1997: it provides analytical readings of works by Andriessen, Feldman, Ligeti and others, and a framework for the analysis of music which escapes traditional models. Recent research involves an examination of the work-concept in relation to 20th Century 'recompositions'.
As a composer Daniel has written music for a variety of ensembles, including the Javanese Gamelan: his compositions Bronze by Gold, and Pieces of Five and Three, have both been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Other pieces include O Souverain (O Juge) for chamber orchestra, On the Liffey for bodhran and tape, and Together Again and All the King's Horses for piano.
Daniel has also worked as a composer within the field of community and music education, taking part in a number of creative projects and writing music both for and with participants. Large-scale pieces include music for shadow puppet theatre, The Shadow of the Rose, and Noah's Opera, both of which involve extensive electro-acoustic elements.
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- Member of the Associated
- Senior Lecturer
Elizabeth Haddon SFHEA LRSM studied Music at the University of York, returning to teach piano in 1997 while also enjoying freelance work including instrumental teaching, Western and non-Western performance, workshop leading and music administration. From 2006-2008 Liz was Research Officer at the University of York for the ESRC-funded research project Investigating Musical Performance. Her subsequent research has focused on instrumental and vocal pedagogy, the music master class, hidden learning, empathy and partnership in piano duet playing, and creativity, and her published output includes three books, numerous journal articles and book chapters. Liz created the MA Music Education: Instrumental and Vocal Teaching at the University of York in 2015, and was Programme Leader for over six years.
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- Senior Lecturer
- Senior Lecturer / Department of Music
Federico Reuben is a composer, sound artist and live electronics performer. His research interests include studio-based, acoustic and mixed composition; live electronic performance; improvisation; sound art; music computing and interactivity; cross-arts collaboration; contemporary music studies; music aesthetics; and critical/contextual studies of digital and sound culture.
Federico studied composition with Louis Andriessen, Richard Ayres, Gilius van Bergeijk and Martijn Padding at The Royal Conservatoire, The Netherlands. He studied human-computer interaction, digital signal processing and algorithmic composition at the Institute of Sonology. He holds a PhD from Brunel University, where he studied with Richard Barrett and Christopher Fox. Before joining the University of York, he was Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Creative Music Technology at Falmouth University.
His work has been presented, performed and broadcast worldwide and featured at leading music and art festivals. He has written instrumental, vocal and mixed media compositions for ensembles and soloists including Ensemble MAE, Ensemble Klang, Mark Knoop, Loré Lixenberg, Rei Nakamura, RIAM Percussion Ensemble, Roentgen Connection, Sarah Nicolls, and Piano Circus. As a sound artist he has experience with sound and robotic installations, internet-based work, interactive and multimedia performances, live coding, generative systems, live art, and cross-arts collaborations. He is also active as a laptop improviser and has played with improvisers such as Phil Minton, John Edwards, Tony Marsh, Steve Noble, Ingrid Laubrock, Alexander Hawkins, the London Improvisers Orchestra, Dominic Lash, Javier Carmona and Aleksander Kolkowski.
He is also a co-founder of squib-box, an artist-led organisation and netlabel that promotes avant-garde music and interdisciplinary performance. With squib-box, he has organised and performed at live events around the world with a variety of leading musicians, artists and performers from a range of disciplines.
Dr Heather Melville, OBE is Chancellor, the ceremonial head of the University,
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- Senior Lecturer ( Associate Professor ) in Film and Interactive Media / School of Arts and Creative Technologies
- Senior Lecturer in Film and Interactive Media
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- Associate
- Lecturer
- Member of the Associated
Liam Maloney graduated in Sound Technology from Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (BA Hons 2007). He began lecturing in further education, specialising in audio production and electronic music composition. During this time, he achieved an MSc in Music & Creative Industries Management with distinction from the University of Bolton (2011), with his dissertation examining the dissemination of taste after the digital revolution winning the Vice-Chancellor's award for "outstanding academic achievement". He undertook his doctoral work in the Music Research Centre at the University of York (2014-2020). His PhD, titled ‘Music Like Water: Exploring the Functions of Music Through Thematic Bibliometric Analysis and Comparative ESM Study', supervised by Dr Jez Wells and Dr Catherine Laws, and was examined by Professor John Sloboda. He was awarded a Humanities Research Doctoral Fellowship for his doctoral work (2018).
His postdoctoral work, a joint venture between the Digital Creativity Labs and the Department of Music at the University of York for the ‘Musical Creativity and Emotional Content' project (2020) concerned the development of real-time emotional expression prediction embedded within music sequencing systems.
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- Senior Lecturer
- Senior Lecturer / School of Arts and Creative Technologies
- Senior Lecturer in Theatre
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- Member of the Remuneration Committee
- Member of Council )
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- Head of Enterprise Services
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- Co - Head of School and Reader
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- Technical Facilities Manager
Geoff Brown is Head of Security - you can contact him by email to geoff.brown@york.ac.uk or by phone: 01904 32 2050
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- Records Management Assistant
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- Senior Service Coordinator
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- Employee Relations and HR Policy Manager
Project Director Leon Guyett and Project Manager Natalie Webster will provide an overview of the history of the project, an update on the £100m+ infrastructure and other work ongoing at the moment, and what will be happening next at York Central.
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- Member of the Remuneration Committee
- Treasurer
- Member of Council]
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- Chairman
- Member of the Remuneration Committee
- Member of Council]
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- Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting
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- Member of the Remuneration Committee
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- Member of the Remuneration Committee
- Chairman of Council
- Chairman of Council ( Ex Officio ) )
Denise Jagger is the Chair of Council, the governing body and trustee board with statutory and strategic oversight of the University
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- Security Operations Manager
Paul Massheder is Security Operations Manager - you can contact him by email to paul.massheder@york.ac.uk or by phone: 01904 32 2185
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- Director of Human Resources
- Member of the Remuneration Committee
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- Employee Relations and HR Policy Manager ( Maternity Cover )