PhD Students


Andrew Kirkman, ‘Three-part Masses in the later 15th century’ (PhD diss., King’s College London, 1993) [final year only]

Nicola Losseff, ‘The Best Concords: Polyphonic Music in Thirteenth-Century Britain’ (PhD diss., King’s College London, 1994) [all but final year]

Michael Allis, ‘Charles Hubert Parry: Sources of the Music’ (PhD diss., King’s College London, 1995)

Sarah Hibberd, ‘Magnetism, Muteness, Magic: Spectacle and the Parisian Lyric Stage c1830’ (PhD diss., University of Southampton, 1998)

John Drysdale, ‘Louis Véron and the Finances of the Académie Royale de Musique, 1827-1835’ (PhD diss., University of Southampton, 2000)

Bethany Lowe, ‘Performance, Analysis and Interpretation in Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony’ (PhD diss., University of Southampton, 2001)

Marian Read, ‘Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera: an Approach through Mikhail Bakhtin’s Theory of Carnival’ (PhD diss., University of Southampton, 2004)

Gaël Saint-Cricq, ‘The Thirteenth-Century Motet: Analysis, Structure and Meaning’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, 2010)

Candida Mantica, ‘Donizetti’s L’ange de Nisida: Institution, Reconstruction and Performance’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, 2013)

Francesca Placanica, ‘Mercadante’s Il reggente’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, 2013)

Helen Macfarlane, ‘Fre ‘Il faut savoir l’Italien pour déchiffrer une romance française’: Italian Presence in the French Romance 1800 – 1850’ ’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, 2014)

Eva Maschke, ‘Style and Transmission in Notre-Dame Polyphony’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, 2015)

Jacopo Mazzeo, ‘Function and Meaning in the Thirteenth-Century Conductus’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, 2015)

Amy Williamson, ‘English Polyphonic Music c1300’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, 2016)

Asher Yampolsky, ‘Structure and Form in Two-Part Notre-Dame Organum’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, 2019)

Nana Wang, ‘Nineteenth-Century Pianistic Responses to the Opera’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, 2019)

Diana Venegas Butt, ‘Keyboard Music for the Dance by Women in the Nineteenth Century’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, 2020)

Kaho Inoue, ‘The Challenge of ‘Pre-Franconian’ Notation’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, 2020)

Grace Newcombe, ‘Unlocking the Sound of British song: Performance Practice, 1150-1300’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, 2021)

Chenyin Tang, ‘Western Opera in the Maritime Sinosphere: 1842-1949’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, 2022)

William Osmond, ‘The Reception of French Opera in Amsterdam (1830-1839)’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, 2023)

Anisha Netto, ‘The European Circulation of Lorenzo Da Ponte’s Opera Libretti’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, 2023)

Clare Merivale, ‘Giuseppe Verdi’s Les vêpres siciliennes: Sources and Cultural Exchange’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, 2023)

Federico Zavanelli, ‘The French Background to Early Trecento Notations’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, 2023)

Gintaré Stankeviciute, ‘Alban Berg in England Between the Wars’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, 2023)

Alcock, ‘Russian Émigré Composers 1900-1953: Displacement, Memory and Music’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, in progress)

Fernanda Muñoz Salazar, ‘‘Italianistas contra francesistas’:  Bel canto and Modern Music Drama in Music Criticism in Mexico City at the End of the 19th Century’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, in progress)

Yanchen Zhao, ‘Musical Reconstruction and the Reinterpretation at Notre Dame of Paris’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, in progress)

Dai Tang, ‘Singers and Repertories at the Théâtre Italien’, 1830-1870’ (PhD diss. University of Southampton, in progress)