I am a performer and musicologist.

As a musicologist, my primary research interest is the music of David Lumsdaine.

My research continues from my PhD and investigates the music of, for example, Alexander Goehr, Tansy Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, Pierre Boulez and David Lumsdaine in terms of their use of register. This research involves both close analysis of their music, as well as interviews with performers and audiences. Through a focus on register, I aim to make accessible, music from a period that is often perceived as difficult and irrelevant. Whereas most scholarly attention to register has centred on the music of, for example, Tristan Murail, my research demonstrates the usefulness of the analysis of register in the music of serial and post‑serial composers.

I am also engaged in ongoing projects with recent Australian music, its production, composition and reception. Most recently this has taken the form of a re‑evaluation of Australian music composed in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, resulting in an issue of the online journal resonate. In guest editing this publication, I commissioned articles from, and conducted interviews with composers, performers and musicologists. My involvement with this journal marks a significant generational change within the discourse that surrounds Australian music.

As a mandolinist, I specialize in the performance of the instrument’s recent repertoire and am active in commissioning new works.

News:
My recent recording of Michael Smetanin's Ancient Melodies in Converging and Diverging Lines can be heard here.

The Music of David Lumsdaine: 1966–1980 will be published late December 2008.