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Mark Gotham

Professorship:

Music Theory, since 1 October 2021

About the professorship

Department:

Arts and Sport Sciences

Studies and doctorate:

Portrait of Prof. Mark Gotham © Jerome Woodwark
  • Studies in music and composition at Christ Church College, University of Oxford, and the Royal Northern College of Music, England
  • 2015: PhD in music theory at King’s College, University of Cambridge, England (Newton Trust scholarship)

Stages:

  • Royal Academy of Music, London: McCann Research Fellow
  • University of Cambridge: Lecturer in the Department of Music, Director of Music and Head of Music Studies at Murray Edwards College, Director of Music at Churchill College
  • University of London: Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway
  • Cornell University, USA: Active Learning Initiative Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Music Theory Pedagogy
  • Saarland University: research associate

Main focus:

  • Music theory, analysis, composition
  • Computational/digital methods
  • Corpus building and study
  • Mathematical modeling