As indicated below, Advisory Council members act as nominated representatives for particular sub-disciplines. If they so wish, colleagues are more than welcome to use them as a first point of contact in respect of ideas for collaborative projects, conferences or other types of research support in these areas.
Chair
Sir Nicholas Kenyon (Barbican Centre) to 30 October 2012
Ex officio
Prof. Roger Kain, CBE, FBA (Dean of SAS)
Dr Paul Archbold (Director, IMR)
Representing the University of London
Prof. Ardis Butterfield (English, UCL), to 31 May 2012*
Dr Michael Fend (KCL), to 31 May 2013
Prof. Warwick Gould (Director, IES), to 31 July 2014
Dr Neil Heyde (RAM), to 31 May 2014*
Dr Tom Perchard (Goldsmiths), to 31 May 2013
Dr Henry Stobart (RHUL), to 31 May 2012
Prof. Richard Widdess (SOAS), to 31 May 2012
Representative for Ethnomusicology & Non-Western Musics
Representing the Conservatoire Sector
Prof. Barry Ife (Principal, Guildhall School of Music and Drama), to 31 May 2012
Dr Linda Merrick (Vice-Principal, Royal Northern College of Music), to 31 May 2013*
Dr Lucy Robinson (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama), to 31 May 2014*
Prof. Aaron Williamon (Royal College of Music), to 31 May 2014
Representing Musical Research outside the University of London
Prof. Martin Butler (Sussex), to 31 May 2012*
Representative for Composition & Contemporary Music
Prof. Jonathan Cross (Oxford), to 31 May 2014
Dr Jonathan Impett (East Anglia), to 31 May 2014
Prof. Anahid Kassabian (Liverpool), to 31 May 2012*
Dr Elaine Kelly (Edinburgh) to 31 May 2014
Prof. Adam Krims (Nottingham), to 31 May 2012*
Prof. Liza Lim (Huddersfield) to 31 May 2014
Dr Alan Marsden (Lancaster), to 31 May 2012
Prof. Jan Smaczny (Queen's University Belfast) to 31 May 2013
Representing the Music Profession and the Cultural Sector
Mr Stephen Carpenter (Chief Executive, Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment), to 31 May 2014
Mr Richard Chesser (British Library), to 31 May 2013*
Mr Andrew Kurowski (Editor, new and specialist music, BBC Radio 3), to 31 May 2014
Mr Andrew Parrott, to 31 May 2012*
Dame Janet Ritterman, to 31 May 2012*
Dr Stephen Roe (Sotheby’s), to 31 May 2012*
Representing the Research Student Community
Mr Matthew Pilcher (Manchester), to 31 May 2012
Ms Rebecca Thumpston (Keele), to 31 May 2012
* = serving second and final term of office
