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Nicholas Till
Pierre Audi Chair in Opera and Music Theatre, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Amsterdam (Drama) (School of Media, Arts and Humanities)

Teaching

BA

In the Autumn Term I will be teaching:

Year 2. The Rise of Classical Music

Year 3. Advanced Music Studies

PhD Supervision

I have supervised PhDs to completion on the following topics:

• Cecilia Wee: Documenting Live Art
• Asma Mundrawala: Theatre for Development in Pakistan (with Filippo Osella)
• Dylan Robinson: The Relationship between Musicology and Performance (theory/practice project)
• Julian Philips: The role of an opera house Composer-in-Residence (AHRC Collaborative Doctoral project with Glyndebourne Opera)
• Daniel Ploeger: The Sonification of the Body in Live Art Performance (theory/practice). 
• Mario Frendo: The Musicalisation of Theatre (theory/practice) 
• Suzanne Wilkins: Aesthetic Experience in Music (with Bjorn Heile)
• Sally Bream: The Photographic Representation of Climate Change (theory/practice project, with Melanie Friend )

Current PhD supervision

• Justin Grize: The Animal in Opera (theory/practice)
• Tom Reid: Music for Early Avant-Garde Film (theory/practice, with Ed Hughes) 
• Thanos Polymeneas: Interactive Music Theatre (theory/practice, with Thor Magnusson)

PhD Examination

I have examined PhDs on: Michael Fried and Minimalism (Wimbledon School of Art); French literary influences on Mozart's Don Giovanni (Kings College, London); ritual and religion in the operas of Berg and Richard Strauss (Kings College, London); the post-Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk (Queen Mary, London); the reception of Don Giovanni in early 19th-century Germany (Aarhus 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ,Denmark); experimental music theatre (theory-practice, Brunel 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ); a model of performance analysis for modern productions of early opera (5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of New South Wales, Australia); expanding opera into mobile media (theory-practice, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Lapland, Finland); the training of opera performers (theory-practice, 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ of Winchester).