Music and Music Technology

Studied at City University, London, before pursuing doctoral research at Magdalen College, Oxford, and has also worked as an orchestral horn player. His interdisciplinary research interests include the following: musical modernism; twentieth-century and contemporary Austro-German music; applications of critical theory to the discipline of musicology; and subjectivity in music.

He is on the Editorial Board of Music Analysis. In 2002, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Humboldt University, Berlin
 
He is author of  New Music and the Claims of Modernity (1997), of Constructing Musicology (2001), and of articles published in the following journals: Cambridge Opera Journal, Music Analysis, Music and Letters, Perspectives of New Music and Journal of the Royal Musical Association. He is currently writing a monograph on music in Germany since 1968.

He has supervised PhDs on the following topics: historically informed brass performance; Louis Armstrong’s recordings from the 1920s; the mature symphonies of Sibelius; and critical musicology.