The Classical Music Network

The Network

Professor Stephanie Pitts (Director), Department of Music, University of Sheffield; Director of Sheffield Performer and Audience Research Centre (SPARC)

Professor Peter Peters (Co-Director), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University; Director of Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music (MCICM)

Professor Karen Burland (Lead Academic - Leeds), University of Leeds, Professor of Applied Music Psychology

Dr Kirsty Devaney (Lead Academic - Birmingham), Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Dr Karolien Dons (Lead Academic - Groningen),  Hanze University Groningen, Professor of Music in Context

Dr Emily Doolittle (Lead Academic - Glasgow), Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Athenaeum Research Fellow

Dr Jennie Joy Porton (Lead Academic - Cardiff), Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Dr Sarah Price (Lead Academic - Liverpool), Lecturer in Music Industries, University of Liverpool

Professor Constanze Wimmer, (Lead Academic - Graz), University of Music and Performing Art, Graz


Advisory Board

Dr Kate Blackstone, Young Classical Artists’ Trust and independent researcher 

Professor Paul Craenen, Head of research group Music, Education and Society at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague

Dr Abi Gilmore, Senior Lecturer in Arts Management & Cultural Policy, University of Manchester

Dr Denise Petzold, Postdoctoral lecturer at the Philosophy Department, University of Maastricht and MCICM

Dr Michelle Phillips, Senior lecturer in Music Psychology & Head of Enterprise, Royal Northern College of Music

Dr Madeleine Pill, Senior lecturer, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield (unable to attend)

Dr Neil Tòmas Smith, Teaching Fellow in Creative Musicianship and Musicology, University of Edinburgh, Open College of the Arts

Tom Spurgin, Director of Learning & Engagement, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Professor Jutta Toelle, Professor of Applied Musicology, The Gustav Mahler Private University of Music

Professor Martin Tröndle, WÜRTH Chair of Cultural Production, Department of Culture and Media Science, Zeppelin University. Experimental Concert Research project 

Professor Ben Walmsley, Director of the Centre for Cultural Value and Professor of Cultural Engagement at the University of Leeds


Guests

Ankna Arockiam, PhD candidate, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (unable to attend)

Martina Fladerer, PhD candidate, The Inter-University Organization Science and Arts (S&A) Salzburg (Paris-Lodron University/Mozarteum University)

Dr Uchenna Ngwe, Academic Lecturer, Trinity Laban Conservatoire /Royal Academy of Music 

Dr Emily Payne, Associate Professor of Music, University of Leeds

Dr Denise Petzold, postdoctoral lecturer, Maastricht University, Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music

Emma Risley, PhD student, University of Sheffield

Tessa Sawyer, PhD student, University of Sheffield

Melanie Self, PhD student, University of Leeds

Jenifer Yanez Villahermosa, Prins Claus Conservatorium (Hanze University), Educator & PhD candidate 

Yuwei Wang, PhD student, University of Leeds

Prof Sarah Weiss, University Professor for Ethnomusicology, University of Music and Performing Arts