PhD
We welcome proposals from prospective PhD students wanting to join the Open Scores Lab, focusing on topics which intersect with current interests of Lab members or which extend the scope of our work. We can support practice-led projects incorporating a portfolio of creative work and more theoretical/musicological research, as well as interdisciplinary approaches. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss a proposal.
For University regulations, fees, and general information, please also visit the University’s research degrees page.
Current Open Scores Lab PhD Students
- Tim Cape [joint-supervision with University of Southampton]
- Maria Maltezou – Creative Activism and Interactive Artworks: Initiating societal and social change through mixed-media compositions
- Taibah Orpin – Coordinating and Synchronising With and Through Music: Exploring Entrainment as the Basis for a Compositional Practice
- Goni Peles – Developing Scorecraft: From Game Design to Composition
- David May – I Only Paint What I See: the artist-sitter relationship as a model for music composition.
Previous PhD Students
- Vassilis Chatzimakris – Interfacial Scores: An exploration of approaches to indeterminacy of performing means (2025)
- Ralf Dorrell: Approaches to integrating improvisation into notated big band compositions. (2018)
- Oliver Ginger – Borders: liminality within the spaces where different sound environments meet
- Cameron Graham – Preoccupations that fill the void: Staging the Creative Process as steps to World Building
- Louis d’Heudieres – Scores in Time: Exploring the use of Sound as a Medium for Notation in Musical Composition (2020)
- Oogoo Maia: Developing a vigilant musical practice (2021)
- Harry Matthews – New methods for developing collaboration in environmental composition (2024)
- Aaron Moorehouse – Music as Therapy after Sound: Exploring Experimental-Music in Therapy, and Exploring Therapy in Experimental-Music (2024)
- Luke Nickel – Living scores: a portfolio of orally-transmitted experimental music compositions (2017)
- James Oldham – Comic timing in music [joint-supervision with University of Southampton]
- Misha Penton – Vocality as / in Composition: solo and collaborative creation of new postopera works (2021)
- Alexis Porfiriadis: Towards a collective/participatory approach to composition and performance: applications of collective improvisation and verbal/graphic notation in composition for music ensembles. (2016)
- Caitlin Rowley – Studio/Stage: Entangling private and public creative spaces through interdisciplinary composition