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Recent research projects have included:
- A Case for Contemporary Ethnomusicological Enquiry in Australia Jazz with Reference to the Signifying Monkey
- Music and Faith: Martin Luther and the Musical Practices of a Portuguese Speaking Pentecostal Church in Sydney
- Orchestral Viola Professional Practice and Performance Techniques
- Freedom Through Discipline: The use of rhythmic devices in the music of Mark Simmonds
- Pre-composition: A Premise for Creativity in the Preparation of an Opera and Portfolio of Compositions
- Musical activities at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Van Diemen’s Land: A study of cultural practice 1827-1857
- Portfolio of Compositions
- Debussy and Late-Romantic Performing Practices: An Investigation Debussy’s Piano Rolls of 1913
- The Matryoshka Family: A Portfolio of Compositions
- Auditory-acoustic characterisation of variability in the operatic vowel
- The genesis of Brahm's Violin Concerto: An examination of Brahms' compositional relationship with Beethoven, his professional relationship with Joachim, and the manifestation of these influences in his concerto
- El Puerto and El Albaicin by Albeniz: A Study of Recordings
- An exploration of the compositional idiom of E.J Moeran with specific focus on his Cello Concerto
- The development of solo bass recorder repertoire in the twentieth century
- Teaching Improvisation in Secondary Schools using Chord/Scale Theory
- Chromatic thirds relations in the improvisations of Mark Turner
- Taonga Puroro and Flute: A Guide to Interpreting Maori influence Repertoire for Western Flute through works by Whitehead, Fisher and Grenfell.
- Recontextualising Rhythms and Rituals: A Portfolio of Compositions Inspired by Latin American Music and Esoteric Traditions
- Saxophone promotion through pedagogical text
- Blowing Zen: Non-Western Influences on the Scores and Performance of Contempory Saxophone Repertoire
- Reaching for Inner Voice: The influence of Jewish Cantorial Singing on Jewish Jazz Musicans
- The impact of Lionel Tertis and early 20th Century British compositions on the emancipation of the viola as a solo instrument
- Shades of Mimesis: Using constructive forces from nature as inspiration for composition
- The Drumset Ideology of Tony Williams to 1968: An autotelic and adaptive synthesis of feel, technique, creativity and freedom amidst a community of like-minded peers and mentors
- Keith Stirling: A study of his Life and Music
- Jean-Joseph Cassanea de Mondonville and the Development of Accompanied French Keyboard Music
- A Stylistic and Historical Analysis of High Hat Techniques in Swing, Bebop and Latin Jazz Drumming
- Classical John Phillip Deane 1796-1849 Australian Music Pioneer
- Luciano Berio’s works for trombone and the performers’ influence
- Classical...not Plastic: Popular Music and Canonical Status
- Australia’s First Music Festival
- An Analysis of ‘The lost Art of Letter Writing’ by Brett Dean
- The importance of understanding the mechanisms underlying breathing, posture and embouchure for tertiary flute and wind music students.
- Movements of Ma
- Sonny meets Squawk: Timbral devices in the saxophone playing of Sonny Rollins
- Towards a general history of Australian musical composition: First national music (1788c - 1855)
- In search of a place for the arts: A case study of creative arts pedagogy in 21st century classroom
- Body movement and sound intensity in western contemporary popular singing
- The use of the cor anglais in the music of Sibelius and Shostakovich
- Changing Adolescent Voice: A developmental acoustic study
- Hidden testimony: Musical experience and memory in Jewish holocaust survivors
- Analysis of two works composed in the dialectic chamber style
- Heather Gell: A Dallroze influence in Australian Music education 1912-1981
- Sustained aspect and precursors: towards a stylistic synthesis
Current projects include:
- Heather Gell: A Dalcroze Influence in Australian Music Education 1924-1981
- Pre-performance Breathing Imagery in Singing
- Composition of two multi-media music works
- Socio-Cultural Development through Ensemble Music (Programs)
- The music of the Mapuche Indians
- Statistical Analysis of senior music course numbers in NSW
- What are the impacting factors for teachers in interpreting the current K-6 creative curriculum?
- Narratives of Landscape: the construction of an Australian music
Commissioning Music - Translation and transformation of a piece of music when moving from song into opera
- Compositional works that feature sounds of the local environment
- Effectiveness of composition of works for the clarinet between 1779 and 1800
- French music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods
- Microtonal Aesthetic Development in the Music of Peter McNamara
- Choral pedagogy in the primary school
- Piano teaching within schools in Sydney
- The Fundamentals of Jazz and Classical techniques combined
- The role of the Dulcian (Curtal) in Solo and Consort Repertoire
- Villa-Lobos' folklore
- Considerations of Live Electronic Music Composition and Performance
- Creative Visual Arts & Music Interaction, and processes relating to music for saxophone
- Period Instrument performance of the Classical Era
- Early repertoire on the Euphonium and the evolution on new compositions
- Art of Fugue
- Transcriptions, fantasies and other adaptations: a survey of violin arrangements
- Beyond Treaty: An exploration of the teaching of contemporary indigenous music
- Role of the clarinet within orchestral genres
- The use of the clarinet in representations of birdsong
- Fragments, Topics and Timing: an analysis of interpretive choice
- Historically Informed performance practice of early music on the modern flute
- Beatbox Techniques and Flute
- The effects of home schooling on musical progress and experience
- History of Taikoz with a focus on the relationship between taiko and shakuhachi
- Electroacoustic compositioni
- Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936)
- Application of Korean drum nomenclature to Jazz performance
- Garamut Drumming in Baluan Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea
- Algorithms for polyphonic and ambient interactive music composition
- "Trigger"
- Creative guide for building essential violin techniques
- Alkan's Concerto for solo piano
- Compositions: Oratorio, Great Service, Organ Voluntaries
- Robert Shaw’s approach to Bach performance practice
- The professional conductor in the educational sphere
- Bela Bartok’s Violin Concertos
- 19th-21st century violinists and the “child prodigy” phenomenon
- The music of Henry Oswald
- Ontology of Music Performance Variation
- Design process in collaborative compositions using music technology
- Masonry and Haydn
- The significance of key and tonality within the violincello solo repertoire
- Extraneous movement in the performance of the flute: an approach to its cure
- Erhu involvement with Australian Compositions
- The evolution and development of the Jazz Standards repertoire
- Brahms Violin Sonatas: A Performance Edition
- A study of Robert Aitken's collected works for flute
- Viola da Gamba Construction and Stringing
- Characteristics of leading bass pedagogy methods
- Contemporary Composition & The Mandolin: Existing & Extended Techniques
- Auditions and the Orchestral Violist
- William Luscombe Searelle
- In pursuit of the 'Third Line'
- To thoroughly realize and establish a new sound for jazz piano...
- A study of finger patterns, keyboard topography and their application in piano pedagogy
- A survey of cello repertoire post 1945
- Szymanowski compositions, 1915-1916
- The future of guitars in art music
- Emotional connection in theatre voice
- Enough is Not Enough: identity and ego in musical performance
- Bass Accompaniments in Jazz Performance
- Radiophonic and Radio Art Practices: contextualising Australian practice internationally
- The survival of the performer in contemporary Australian society
- Jazz composition for small and large ensemble
- Sergei Prokofiev - Violin Concerto no. 2 in G minor Op.63 (1935)
- The development of rhythmic sight reading ability in high school string players
- Polymetric counterpoint in large ensemble jazz composition
- A comparative study of pedagogy and performance practices in Australian opera schools
- What is the impact of culturally inclusive music porgrams on school culture?
- Policy evaluation in state administered music education programs
- The role of musical theatre on the identities and lives of gay men
- Development of contrabassoon repertoire
- Influence of national piano schools on the artistic development of students
- Semiotics, post-structuralism and deconstructive philosophy exemplified in music
- Evolution of the French horn from the Classical period to the 20th century
- In search of an extended paradigm for expressive flute articulation
- Techniques used in the rejuvenation of damaged operatic voices
- Evolution of the tuba as a solo instrument in the twentieth century
- Vocal qualities of the adolescent voice
- A critical analysis of Joe Henderson’s improvisational style
- Towards a general history of Australian musical composition
- The cor anglais in the orchestra from Berlioz to the present day
- Science: a model and a metaphor in the work of four British composers
- Survey of extended techniques of jazz saxophone
- The drumset ideology of Tony Williams to 1969: an emergent and adaptive synthesis
- Blowing Zen: non-western influence on the scores and performance of contemporary compositions
- The development of solo bass recorder repertoire in the 20th Century
- Music Composition with special focus on interactive systems governing rhythm
- Relationship between body behaviour and singing intensity in Western popular music
- Music Education for Boys
- A stylistic and historical analysis of high hat techniques
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