Alexis Bennett
I wrote my doctoral thesis at Goldsmiths, University of London, where I am Lecturer in Music. I am currently also a visiting supervisor at the University of Cambridge.
As Edison Fellow at the British Library Sound Archive I researched the BBC French Service and the music of Francis Chagrin.
After reading music and literature at the University of Edinburgh, I studied composition at the Royal College of Music and performance at the Guildhall School, specialising in baroque viola and medieval fiddle.
As a composer I work with poets, filmmakers, and animators. My music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Channel 4, TCM and at major film festivals throughout the world, including Cannes, London and Edinburgh. My opera "The Electrictionary" premiered at Kings Place in August 2015 in the Tête à Tête festival.
My collaboration with the Northumbria-based poet Katrina Porteous debuted at Dartington International Summer School & Festival in 2018, and I also work regularly with the London-based poet Mick Delap.
In 2021, my collaboration with Gloria Sanders, "Epistles from Gaia", was longlisted for the Pallette Poetry prize.
I composed music and songs for Peter Billingham’s play "The Drowned and the Saved" in 2018.
I have performed widely with ensembles including the Dufay Collective, Florilegium, Istante, London Early Opera, Oxford Baroque, Pumpkinseeds, Twisted Twenty, and Fellowshippe of Musickers.
With a lifetime of experience as a ceilidh caller and fiddler, I am active on the folk scene, and I am a member of the London-based old-time band The Croshaw Family. In 2018 I appeared at Cetic Connections with Lomond Campbell and Modern Studies.
At Dartington Music Summer School I have coached folk music, assisting Emily Portman in 2019, Martin Carthy and Eliza Carthy in 2017, Harbottle & Jonas in 2018, and the Askew Sisters in 2012-13.
I am reviews editor of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, published by Liverpool University Press. My writing is published in Popular Music (Cambridge University Press), Music, Sound, and the Moving Image (Liverpool University Press) and Journal of Film Music (Equinox).
Supervisors: Ian Gardiner
Address: London
As Edison Fellow at the British Library Sound Archive I researched the BBC French Service and the music of Francis Chagrin.
After reading music and literature at the University of Edinburgh, I studied composition at the Royal College of Music and performance at the Guildhall School, specialising in baroque viola and medieval fiddle.
As a composer I work with poets, filmmakers, and animators. My music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Channel 4, TCM and at major film festivals throughout the world, including Cannes, London and Edinburgh. My opera "The Electrictionary" premiered at Kings Place in August 2015 in the Tête à Tête festival.
My collaboration with the Northumbria-based poet Katrina Porteous debuted at Dartington International Summer School & Festival in 2018, and I also work regularly with the London-based poet Mick Delap.
In 2021, my collaboration with Gloria Sanders, "Epistles from Gaia", was longlisted for the Pallette Poetry prize.
I composed music and songs for Peter Billingham’s play "The Drowned and the Saved" in 2018.
I have performed widely with ensembles including the Dufay Collective, Florilegium, Istante, London Early Opera, Oxford Baroque, Pumpkinseeds, Twisted Twenty, and Fellowshippe of Musickers.
With a lifetime of experience as a ceilidh caller and fiddler, I am active on the folk scene, and I am a member of the London-based old-time band The Croshaw Family. In 2018 I appeared at Cetic Connections with Lomond Campbell and Modern Studies.
At Dartington Music Summer School I have coached folk music, assisting Emily Portman in 2019, Martin Carthy and Eliza Carthy in 2017, Harbottle & Jonas in 2018, and the Askew Sisters in 2012-13.
I am reviews editor of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, published by Liverpool University Press. My writing is published in Popular Music (Cambridge University Press), Music, Sound, and the Moving Image (Liverpool University Press) and Journal of Film Music (Equinox).
Supervisors: Ian Gardiner
Address: London
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"Hamlet" (Laurence Olivier, 1948) with regard to the elements of early music detectable in its style. I will ask to what extent developments in historical performance practice informed its composition, or whether it is possible to identify in the work other factors independent of any historicist revival.
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Presentations by Alexis Bennett
"Hamlet" (Laurence Olivier, 1948) with regard to the elements of early music detectable in its style. I will ask to what extent developments in historical performance practice informed its composition, or whether it is possible to identify in the work other factors independent of any historicist revival.