FREE-LANCE ACTIVITES SINCE 1989
Since becoming a free-lance musician in 1989,
my income has been generated from three main sources:
(i) Open University part-time employment.
- Acting as an Associate Lecturer in Wales for the music courses:
- A241, Elements of Music (1990-3),
- A214, Understanding Music (1994-9 (made redundant)),
- A314, From Baroque to Romantic (1990-7),
- AA302, From Composition to Performance: Musicians at Work
(1998-2001 (made redundant));
- I have also acted as an Associate Lecturer in the South-West
Region for A314 (1993-7) and AA302 (1998-2000 (made redundant));
- Continuing as a postgraduate supervisor - students supervised:
- David Beck: Conducting Stravinsky's Choral Music (BPhil,
198?)
- Jackie Flowers: Swapping Aberystwyth for the Internationale
(Rutland Boughton) (BPhil, 1990, declined)
- John Warnaby: The Music of Peter Maxwell Davies based on
the Writings of George Mackay Brown (PhD, 1991) (with T.
Herbert)
- David Huckvale: The Influence of Nineteenth-Century Romantic
Music on Scores Commissioned by Hammer Films (PhD, 1992)
(with R. Middleton and S. Spenser)
- Frank Salter: An Examination of Certain Dramaturgical Devices
in the Operas of Verdi up to 'La Traviata' (PhD, 1998) (with
J. Barrie Jones)
- Acting as monitor and examiner, and contributing to further Open
University courses (see Publications below).
(ii) Lecturing for Swansea University Adult and Continuing Education
Department, with the following courses:
- Schubert and Berlioz (1989-90)
- Musical Nationalism (1990-1)
- Mozart (Gower Festival, 1991)
- Vienna: a Musical Capital (1991-2)
Courses run under my own initiative:
- Paris: a Musical Capital (1994-5)
- Bach and Handel/Elgar and Vaughan Williams (1995-6)
- The Composer and Music (1996-7)
- The Concerto (1997-8)
- Choral Music (1998-9)
- Keyboard Music (1999-2000)
- Performance in Orchestral and Vocal Music (2000-1)
(iii) Private piano and music theory pupils.
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