b. Melbourne, Australia. Completed his PhD on aspects of the creative process in Manuel de Falla’s Neoclassical music.
He has been a research associate at the Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales (Madrid) and at the Archivo Manuel de Falla (Granada), where he was responsible for classifying the composer’s annotations to his library. He has published extensively on aspects of 20th-century Hispanic music and is currently completing a monograph on Spanish music in Belle-Epoque Paris. His next major research project examines Bizet's Carmen, Spain and the emergence of popular culture. Other research interests include the music of Igor Stravinsky and Percy Grainger.
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Serenading Spanish Students on the Streets of Paris: The International Projection of Estudiantinas in the 1870s
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Visiting Scholar Awards
Internal Research Grant
Carmen and the Staging of Spain: Recasting Bizet's Opera in the Belle Epoque
Book
Negotiating Exoticism, Nationalism & Modernity: Constructions Of Hispanic Music In Belle-E..
Research Grant
Manuel de Falla and visions of spanish music
Book
La estética tardía de Les Ballets Russes y la transformación de El amor brujo en la versió..
Book Chapter
Instrument of Change: Visions of the Guitar in the Early 20th Century
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Additional Information
Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999-2001): "Context, creative process and impact: Manuel de Falla's milieu and the definition of Hispanic musical nationalism"
Scholarly Works
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Spanish Cultural Cooperation Programme - research award
Australian Research Council Discovery Project (2003-2007)
Australian Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellowship
Credentials
Positions
Positions
Associate Professor In Music (Musicology)
Melbourne Conservatorium Of Music
Member
International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
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Society of Interdisciplinary Musicology (SIM)
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Sociedad Española de Musicología (SEdeM)
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Association of Iberian & Latin American Studies of Australasia (AILASA)
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American Musicological Society (AMS)
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Musicological Society of Australia (MSA)
Education
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Arts
University of Melbourne
Graduate Diploma of Arts
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Bachelor of Music (Hons)
University of Melbourne
Diploma of Arts
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